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<p>The delivery plan for recovering access to primary care will enable community pharmacies
to supply prescription-only medicines for seven common conditions under Patient Group
Directions (PGDs). PGDs are written instructions enabling certain health care professionals
to supply or administer medicines to patients without a prescription. Any pharmacy
offering this service will have to declare they are competent to deliver the service
and pharmacists supplying medicines under PGDs must have undertaken the training set
out in those specific PGDs.</p><p>Antimicrobial stewardship is a priority for the
Government and NHS England. Action to embed antimicrobial stewardship principles in
community pharmacy teams has formed part of the Pharmacy Quality Scheme in the National
Health Service contractual arrangements.</p><p>The supply of antibiotics under the
new service will be monitored by collecting and analysing data about the supply of
medicines, including antibiotics, in the same way that data is collected on prescribing
in general practice.</p><p>In addition, in May, the National Institute for Health
and Care Research issued a research call for a robust wrap around evaluation of the
Pharmacy First service to understand its impact, safety, cost effectiveness, acceptability
and implications for antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance.</p>
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