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PSI Newsletter: Issue 4, 2020

  • 2020 - A year like no other: A message from the PSI President and Registrar
  • Brexit preparations
  • Provision of the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Services
  • FMD use and learn period
  • Reminder: Garda certification of controlled drug safes
  • Fitness to Practice outcome
  • New resources on the Code of Conduct
  • Registration on the Internet Supply List
  • Business Transformation Programme
  • Council minutes
  • PSI branding
  • Duty Registers
  • Preliminary Proceedings Committee Annual Report 2019
  • PSI pubic consultation
  • Antibiotic prescribing

PSI Newsletter: Issue 3, 2020

  • Meeting the challenges of COVID-19: A message from the PSI President and Registrar
  • Updated HPSC Guidance
  • Use and Learn Period - COVID-19 Operational Standards
  • Providing an influenza vaccination service offsite from the pharmacy premises
  • Practitioner Health Matters Programme
  • Falsified Medicines Directive
  • Counselling when supplying Medicinal Products outside the manufacturing original packaging
  • Pharmacy Assessment System
  • Fitness to Practice outcomes
  • Annual Report 2019
  • Reminder: ePorfolio Review 2020/2021
  • New PSI Registration System
  • Important information about hand sanitisers
  • Continued Registration
  • Reminder of the recommended dose of influenza vaccine nasal spray

PSI Newsletter: Issue 2, 2020

  • Innovating and adapting to meet the challenges of COVID-19: Message from the PSI President and Registrar
  • Valproate medicines and risk in pregnancy
  • Influenza Vaccination 2020/21- Provision to Children from 6 months & Intranasal Delivery
  • Amendment to PSI Fees Rules
  • CPD and ePortfolio Review 2020/2021
  • Falsified Medicines Directive
  • Pharmacy Benevolent Fund
  • Election of PSI President and Vice-President
  • Internet Supply
  • Five Year Integrated MPharm Programme
  • Temporary (section 77) registration of pharmacists under the COVID-19 emergency legislation
  • New Methotrexate Educational Materials
  • New PSI Registration System

PSI Newsletter: Issue 1, 2020

  • Code of Conduct information events
  • Review of the Core Competency Framework
  • Falsified medicines directive
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Food Safety Authority of Ireland recall notice
  • Reminder: changes to supervising and superintendent pharmacists
  • Reminder: changes of ownership/ shareholding
  • Reminder: Inspectors' advice error management

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