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Integrating community pharmacy services in primary care: making better use of our healthcare venues

Ali Hindi By , and Filed Under: All posts, Health and Care Posted:

The recently launched ‘NHS Long Term Plan’ proposes to make better use of community pharmacists’ skills and explore further efficiencies in community pharmacy in new primary care networks. In this blog, Ali Hindi, Ellen Schafheutle and Sally Jacobs highlight important factors for enhancing the use of community pharmacy services within primary care for patients with […]

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Understanding antibiotic resistance: A national antibiotic prescribing dashboard for policymakers

By Filed Under: All posts, Digital Futures, Health and Care, Health and Social Care Posted:

Antibiotic resistance has been a major concern of policymakers for decades, with wide-ranging impacts upon the world’s food production, sanitation, hospital treatment, and population health systems. Here, Katie McCall of Greater Manchester Connected Health City (GM CHC) discusses how their newly launched antibiotic prescribing dashboard can help healthcare stakeholders and policymakers to understand the extent […]

Commissioning for quality in community pharmacy: towards a better understanding of private sector providers of healthcare

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As a scheme has recently been implemented to incentivise quality in community pharmacy, Sally Jacobs and Ellen Schafheutle discuss the need for further research to inform the development of quality indicators. The role of the private sector in the NHS has expanded over the last 30 years to increase services and reduce costs. This has […]

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