Pharmacists will be on the front line as the coronavirus crisis unfolds. Here's the latest advice and developments as they happen from The Pharmaceutical Journal team.
Features
Everything you should know about the coronavirus outbreak
The latest information about the novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan, China, and advice on how pharmacists can help concerned patients and the public.
Learning
How to keep your community pharmacy running during the COVID-19 pandemic
How pharmacists can implement guidance and best practice in response to the rapidly changing COVID-19 pandemic to ensure patient and staff safety, as well as the approaches pharmacy teams across the UK are taking in response to the virus.
Infographic
The race to stop COVID-19
As a new strain of coronavirus threatens public health systems across the globe, researchers are racing to develop a vaccine.
News blog
COVID-19 LATEST: Community pharmacy to get £300m in advance payments to help meet COVID-19 costs
All the most important developments in the COVID-19 pandemic for pharmacists and their teams, as they happen.
Editorial
Pharmacists are on the front line of COVID-19, but they need help too
An urgent package of funding and support is required to enable pharmacists to support vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blogs
COVID-19 has put my MPharm on hold, so I'm doing my bit for pharmacy on the frontline
All young, fit and healthy pharmacy students should do anything they can to help their NHS during the coronavirus pandemic, says pharmacy student Jay Patel.
How The Pharmaceutical Journal will support pharmacy teams through the COVID-19 pandemic
As all sectors of pharmacy are being put under immense pressure to maintain patient care, Tony Scully writes to reassure readers that we are doing everything we can to deliver supportive, up-to-date content.
News
Emergency funding for COVID-19 not enough to prevent pharmacy closures, trade body warns
Emergency COVID-19 funding for community pharmacies may not be enough to prevent closures, pharmacy bodies have said, after the government promised £300m in advance payments for pharmacies.
COVID-19 medicines delivery scheme in Wales to include logistics software
The Welsh government has announced that DBS-checked volunteers will be used to help community pharmacists deliver medicines to vulnerable patients, and a software system will be installed in every pharmacy to ensure there is an audit trail for the deliveries.
Community pharmacists will have access to NHS staff testing for COVID-19
Community pharmacists will be able to access testing for COVID-19 as part of a government drive to get frontline NHS staff, who are currently self-isolating, back to work.
Urgent calls to revise advice on protective equipment in face of COVID-19
Pharmacy negotiators have called on Public Health England to urgently “re-examine” its advice on personal protective equipment, because further supplies of gloves, masks and aprons “will be needed” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community pharmacies to use volunteers for patient medication deliveries
Supermarkets urged to include pharmacists in NHS shopping hours
COVID-19: Tell us how you are coping
Paracetamol sold for more than £50 per tablet on online bidding sites
Pharmacies across the UK close 'intermittently' to cope with increasing pressures from COVID-19
Funding to be made available for home deliveries, says NHS England and NHS Improvement
Medicines regulator and NICE to review evidence of impact of NSAIDs on COVID-19
Concerned patients ‘strongly’ advised to continue taking medication amid COVID-19 fears
Pharmacy inspections stopped as GPhC inspectors switch to 'supportive role'
Some community pharmacies on ‘brink of collapse’ following COVID-19, says pharmacy negotiator
