Screening & diagnostics

Promoting and implementing healthcare services.

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PocDoc healthy heart test rolled out by Superdrug

The listing with the high street chain follows similar collaborations with Well Pharmacy, Dears Pharmacy and Pharmacy2U.

24 Apr 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Streeting announces partnership for future pandemic 'surveillance system'

Partnership with Oxford Nanopore will see disease sequencing data shared with UKHSA

05 Nov 2024 , 1 Min Article

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Sector should ‘normalise’ use of home diagnostic kits says Pharmacy2U

P2U chief of staff Garry Dannatt envisions 'wraparound' remote consultation services

09 Jul 2024 , 1 Min Article

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Testing Kits in the Community Pharmacy

Testing Kits available in the Community Pharmacy and why it is beneficial for both the Community Pharmacy to stock them and patients to use them.

11 Dec 2023 , 18 Min Module

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Running diagnostics in the pharmacy

Discover how such such services in the pharmacy go beyond a customer simply taking a test.

14 Feb 2022 , 1 Min Article

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Analysis: Testing times for NHS screening programmes

Fewer people are attending the UK’s national health screening programmes. Is this an opportunity for pharmacy?

20 Jan 2022 , 4 Min Article

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Access to answers

Pharmacy-based diagnostic services continue to improve customers' accessibility to healthcare.

08 Feb 2021 , 5 Min Article

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Identification and intervention

Pharmacy teams provide health screening services and testing kits, but there's potential to do more.

26 May 2020 , 2 Min Article

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Renal therapeutics: part four

Part four of this renal therapeutics CPPE module looks at different types of dialysis and renal transplant.

15 Nov 2019 , 3 Min Module

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Renal therapeutics: part three

Part three of this renal therapeutics CPPE module looks at chronic kidney disease, its causes and how to prevent its progression.

14 Oct 2019 , 3 Min Module

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Prediabetes

This CPD module looks at the management of prediabetes and explains how pharmacy can have a role in identifying at-risk patients.

16 Sep 2019 , 3 Min Module

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