NEWS
BALERNO PHARMACY JOINS L&G
The Lindsay & Gilmour Pharmacy ‘family’ has grown again, with the acquisition of Balerno Pharmacy in West Edinburgh.
‘My colleagues and I at Lindsay & Gilmour are absolutely delighted to welcome this fantastic pharmacy which sits in the heart of the Balerno village,’ said Philip Galt, MD and Chief Superintendent at L&G.
‘We are very much looking forward to getting to know the pharmacy team, who have a very special place in the lives of the surrounding community and, of course, to serving the health and medicine needs of our patients and customers.’
Christine Lawrie.
PROTECTION TO HEALTHCARE HOUSEHOLDS
Research led by Public Health Scotland (PHS) and the University of Glasgow has revealed that the rate of infection with COVID-19 for people who live with healthcare workers is at least 30 per cent lower when the worker has been vaccinated mostly with a single dose.
Since household members of healthcare workers can also be infected via other people (not just via the healthcare worker they live with), this 30 per cent relative risk reduction is an underestimate of the ‘true’ effect of vaccination on transmission.
The research – which involved over 300,000 people in total and ran between 8 December 2020 and 3 March 2021 – showed that where healthcare workers had received a second dose of the vaccine at least fourteen days before, their household members had a rate of COVID-19 which was at least 54 per cent lower than household members where healthcare workers had not been vaccinated.
INDEPENDENT PRESCRIBING
NES have recently finished putting together a whole section of TURAS dedicated to Independent prescribing which pulls together not only information about IP courses but some fantastic eLearning modules and videos too. Topics covered include areas of therapeutic knowledge as well as key consultation and clinical skills.
The content is particularly relevant to those planning to deliver NHS Pharmacy First Scotland, but are available as development tools to all registered Pharmacists with a TURAS account by searching ‘independent prescribing’ on the TURAS homepage.
EARLY CAREER FRAMEWORK
The Scottish Government have indicated their plan to establish a national community pharmacy early career framework. This would bring together the national post-registration foundation training programme for newly qualified pharmacists (currently provided by NES) and the independent prescriber course - creating a pathway to maximise expertise in medicines and, with the introduction of the new NHS Scotland Pharmacy First Plus service, the opportunity for pharmacists to further enhance patient care.
Community Pharmacy Scotland and the Scottish Government have agreed to provide funding to support the establishment of the national community pharmacy early career framework. The Post-Registration Foundation Training programme is an experiential learning programme, designed to develop confidence in pharmacy practice specific to Scotland, building on the skills and resilience established during undergraduate and pre-registration training years. For more information contact Fiona McMillan, Principal Lead
fiona.mcmillan@
nhs.scot
scottishpharmacist.com 3
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