October 9th 2026
Dispensary Services Quality Scheme (DSQS) is voluntary. Ask yourself: Is it worth it? Does the practice benefit? Do the patients benefit? Is there an alternative that would show quality to patients, earn some money and be less of a burden to practic
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October 9th 2026
Personally Administered items and VAT are important to get right to minimise dispensary financial losses, DDA Chairman Dr Richard West said in a presentation to the DDA 2026 Conference on understanding PA and VAT. In his presentation, Dr West explai
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October 9th 2026
A 66 per cent reduction in the number of prescription processing sites and three times less paper to sort – these are the among the benefits to the NHS of electronic prescribing, NHSBSA officials Phil Edwards, head of pharmaceutical services, a
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October 8th 2026
“The dispenser has an important role to spot prescribing errors, and check if uncertain.” That is the message from Dr Ben Burgess, DDA Board member, in his DDA Conference 2026 presentation, Safety: Common Drug Errors, High-Risk Drugs, Lo
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October 8th 2026
“Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS) are a lot more work than your standard dispensing process. There is also some negotiating to be done with the companies who provide the trays so get haggling!” Those are the take home messages from DDA Adv
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October 7th 2026
In their presentation to the DDA 2026 Conference, CQC representatives Dr Victoria Lea, (deputy director of medicines optimisation and IR(ME)R and Kuldeep Virdee, pharmacist specialist set out their areas of focus for inspection. She stressed that CQ
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October 7th 2026
Know where it came from… know where it went… and be able to prove it. That was the take home message from the DDA26 Controlling Controlled Drugs presentation by Dr Stephanie White, GP partner, The Downland Practice at the DDA 2026 Conf
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NHS digitisation/electronic prescription services 
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments 
Reimbursement 
Clawback 
Branded generics 
Remuneration - rurality 
