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Despite a coalition of pharmacy bodies and drug and alcohol charities calling for national funding for locally commissioned service provision to tackle rising drug-related deaths, a national review made no mention of pharmacy. What more can be done?
“You can only cure addiction if the people are alive. So, the first thing we need to do is to keep them alive.” So says Mohammed Fessal, chief pharmacist at substance misuse charity Change Grow Live.
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‘Vote no’ campaigner Martin Astbury tells C+D why he believes the RPS plans for change represent a shift away from pharmacist leadership and why members should vote against them this week…
I also read comments that CPE does not appreciate this critical position, and I fundamentally refute that. Knowing the colleagues, both elected and employed, at CPE as I do, this is far from the case.
Community pharmacy is risk adverse, considered, and dare I say it, conservative. But, when it comes to the survival of pharmacy, we can’t afford to let the fear of change – or those resistant to it - hold us back.
Paydens Pharmacy has announced the rollout of a private prescribing service that allows patients to access same-day care “without needing to see their GP” for £15 per consultation.
The health secretary has deemed Boots weight loss safeguards “totally unacceptable” after a new Dispatches documentary found that the pharmacy provided a 16-year-old with Wegovy against its own policy.
