Close. We would prefer if salbutamol inhalers were only provided in exceptional circumstances.’Subscribe to Pulse's newsletters to ensure you receive the news as it happensCPD to support GPs through appraisal and revalidationBrowse 500 international GP, Practice and Healthcare jobsEssential mobile app for all GPs, with diagnostic and screening toolsEvents, seminars and workshops developed specifically for GPsFinancial tool to uncover new funding opportunities and optimise practice performance.NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site, to improve our website. You don;t know the patient's history, spirometry, and so on. Asda has tightened up the requirements for its scheme allowing access to salbutamol inhalers without a prescription after experts raised concerns that GPs were not being automatically informed when patients accessed the scheme.The supermarket has also cut the number inhalers available down from two every eight weeks when the scheme began, to one, after a group of pharmacists advising the supermarket chain said one without a GP prescription was enough.Under the ‘fine-tuning’ of the pharmacy access scheme, customers buying an inhaler will fill in a form to give their GP’s details, and the Asda pharmacies will send GPs letters when an inhaler is purchased as a matter of routine.Customers who refuse to fill out the form will not be allowed to buy an inhaler, the supermarket confirmed.It comes after the Department of Health sought talks with the National Pharmacy Association after it Asda said it had amended its patient group direction (PGD) allowing pharmacies in its stores to sell salbutamol inhalers without a GP prescription, after concerns were raised by GPs and pharmacists.John Evans, superintendent pharmacist at Asda said he was approached by GPs and asthma nurses who voiced concerns about practices not being informed and the number of inhalers available, and his team of advisors developed the amendments.He said: ‘We met with a group of advisory pharmacists and they said that if the customers didn’t tell the GP, then the GP wouldn’t know what was happening.’He added: ‘At Asda we have tried to be innovative, and have fine-tuned the scheme. Find yours with Pulse Practice Jobs, designed to help GPs, practice nurses and practice managers power their next career move. The same great prices as in store, delivered to your door with free click and collect! So it's more about a tied-up service rather than a stand alone service." Asda has cut back on its script-free inhaler scheme to address pharmacists' concerns that the service was not providing joined-up care with GPs, C+D has learned. Asda said it would start selling … Under Asda's amended PGD, customers must now consent to a pre-printed letter being sent to their GP before they are sold an inhaler for £7. I think we have more than enough form filing and paperwork already thank you.Following “a series of unannounced inspections”, the regulator took enforcement actions against the pharmacies – whichThe number of prescriptions for drugs used to treat dementia, psychoses and central nervous system (CNS) stimulants andThe multiple “put in place a risk assessment process” for “every one” of its employees in the wake of the COVID-19The Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) hopes that this pharmacy-led review will help identify patients for whom MDS isThe regulator decided to delay the introduction of the £103 increase until April 2021, after considering the pressuresThe General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has previously “covered some of the costs of the registration fees” forConcerns over the “transparency and fairness” of some of the fitness to practise processes were raised by theDavid Ihenagwa of Edmonton, north London, was found guilty of supplying class B and class C controlled drugs afterPatients who use emollient creams for conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and ichthyosis should therefore takeAspen has been fined £2,101,954 and Tiofarma £186,442 for breaking competition law to keep the price of fludrocortisoneThe request, made by the MHRA last week (May 29), has prompted Lloydspharmacy to remove the home sampling kits itThe COVID-19 antibody home sampling kit, which costs £69 and is on sale from today (May 20), analyses a blood sampleAspen has been fined £2,101,954 and Tiofarma £186,442 for breaking competition law to keep the price of fludrocortisoneThe Strivit-D3 range is available in soft gel capsules in 800 IU (equivalent to 20 micrograms of vitamin D3), 3,200 IULaunched in April, the PiriNatural spray can help reduce nasal congestion caused by allergies by cleaning and washingThe Strivit-D3 range is available in soft gel capsules in 800 IU (equivalent to 20 micrograms of vitamin D3), 3,200 IUPharmacists braced as first wave of 34 CCGs authorised Manuka Doctor skincare range expands into pharmacies Download the C+D app today for free on your iOS or Android phone or tablet.