Chemist4U has seen its pre-tax profits increase by some 118%, rising from £1.7 million in 2023 to £3.6m in 2024, company accounts have revealed. Published on Companies House this week (June 23), the ...

CPE has announced a new SSP for antidepressant Venlafaxine while warning that pharmacy staff have made a “large number” of incorrect claims for dispensing under the protocols. The negotiator yesterday ...

Coroner Elizabeth Wheeler last week (June 19) warned the RPS that its guidance “does not seem to address” pharmacists’ differing interpretations of prescriptions after a diabetes patient died. The ...

Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock yesterday (June 23) told MPs that the state of community pharmacy was a “car crash” when he joined the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) last year. “When I ...

Read more by Molly Bowcott Molly Bowcott joined C+D as a digital reporter in October 2024 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She previously worked as a news ...

Read more by Kate Bowie Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care ...

The assisted dying bill – formally known as the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill – was last week (June 20) voted through the House of Commons in its final reading with 314 MPs voting in favour ...

An employment tribunal has ruled that an NHS employer “unfairly denied” a senior specialist pharmacist a redundancy payment and awarded the pharmacist “a four-figure sum”, the PDA today (June 20) ...

He had asked the DH whether it would “undertake a review of the potential impact of medicine supply chain shortages on community pharmacies”. “Will the minister meet me, along with Steve Race and ...

A third of participants trialing a new 7.2mg “higher dose” of semaglutide – licensed as Wegovy for weight loss – lost a quarter (25%) or more of their body weight after 72 weeks on the drug compared ...

The pharmacy minister has confirmed there will be a three-year evaluation of Pharmacy First after setting out that he expects to “fully” utilise the £215 million in funding allocated to the service ...

The pensions ombudsman has begun an investigation into complaints that Boots employees’ right to take an unreduced pension at age 60 was removed. Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August ...