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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) ...
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has the government’s “full” backing to “tackle the misuse of weight loss medications”, health minister Karin Smyth last week (June 10) revealed. The comment ...
Drug linked to the most deaths? The MHRA told C+D that from the point of licensing until the end of May, the GLP-1 RA linked to most deaths through ADR reports was liraglutide with some 37 reports ...
NHS England (NHSE) national director for primary care Dr Amanda Doyle yesterday (June 11) revealed that GPs will play a central role in the highly anticipated 10-year health plan. Speaking at the NHS ...
In two years, the number of Boots stores has dropped by 392 – 18% of the company’s total portfolio. In annual filings published yesterday (June 5), Boots revealed that it “operated 1,840 stores” as of ...
The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) yesterday (June 5) exposed the four pharmacies that have been “named and sha med” by the government for “failing to pay [staff] the national living and ...
“From June 23, no new DSP applications can be accepted”, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) this week (June 2) announced. The negotiator told C+D that the regulatory change – which was laid in ...
A community pharmacist-founded digital platform that allows pharmacies with extra capacity to offer Pharmacy First video consultations is being used by some 90 pharmacies a year on from its launch, it ...
A new prescription tracking feature on the NHS App has made the volume of calls at one pharmacy “far more manageable”, C+D last week (May 23) learned. Last week, NHS England (NHSE) announced that the ...
VetPartners last week (May 22) announced that it has appointed Avicenna co-founder Jonathan Power as its new UK managing director. Power - who was also group chief executive of the Avicenna pharmacy ...
The government has laid out plans to “proceed to a formal, public consultation” on allowing pharmacists to substitute medicines this summer, after a toddler died when her pharmacist was unable to ...
Avicenna Membership Services – “the UK’s largest independent pharmacy support group” – has “split from its retail pharmacy operation” following its acquisition by a Dutch buying group, it last week ...