England’s new Pharmacy First service will enable people to get NHS prescription medicines for some conditions from a community pharmacy without seeing a GP. But some pharmacists can already prescribe. We explain how the system works, and what’s changing.
have been available in Cambridge and Peterborough, and in Norfolk and Waveney.
A spokesperson for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society told Full Fact that pharmacists prescribing for the seven conditions “was happening in a limited number of pharmacies in certain areas. But it wasn’t routinely done, and wasn’t for all seven conditions in a single pharmacy.” The RPS spokesperson added: “This is the first time that all these services have all been available in every pharmacy doing all these services in England […] As far as we are aware there are no pharmacist independent prescribers in England operating in community pharmacies providing all of these services on the NHS.”Recent years have seen a large increase in the number of pharmacists who can prescribe.
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