Pharmacies falling short of target for 30 to offer independent prescribing service

摘要

Some 13% of community pharmacies in Wales are actively providing independent prescribing services, falling short of a government-backed target for a third of pharmacies to offer such services by 2022. Responses from all seven Welsh health boards to a freedom of information (FOI) request from The Pharmaceutical Journal revealed that 94 of 709 community pharmacies (13.2%) had an independent prescribing pharmacist actively providing prescribing services as of 4 May 2022, when the FOI request was sent.