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 ...

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 ...

The highest pharmacy rent charged by NHS landlord NHSPS rose by almost a quarter between 2020 and 2024, data obtained by C+D via a freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed. NHSPS provided the ...

There is a “really significant opportunity” for community pharmacy in new weight loss jab services, England’s CPhO has revealed. C+D yesterday (June 12) asked David Webb at the NHS Confed Expo in ...

The new NHS workforce plan is set to “look and feel really quite radically different”, NHSE chief executive James Mackey yesterday (June 11) revealed. Mackey made the comment during his keynote speech ...

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 ...

Boots has extended the hours of its on-demand delivery service “up to midnight” at several of its London stores, the multiple yesterday (June 17) announced. “Boots first partnered with Deliveroo in ...

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 ...

NHSE chief executive Sir James Mackey this week (June 11) stressed that commissioners must focus on “outcomes and results rather than inputs” as part of the hotly anticipated 10-year health plan. He ...

Health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday (June 12) stressed that the promised move of care out of hospitals and into the community – one of the NHS 10-year plan’s flagship three shifts – will not ...