What steps have community pharmacy bodies taken to tackle racism?

Two years after the tragic death of George Floyd, how have pharmacy organisations tackled racism in the sector and what more should they do to combat the barriers to change? 

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The results of last year’s C+D racism in pharmacy survey suggested very little had changed

On June 8, 2020, as tensions flared following the murder of George Floyd – which had happened just two weeks earlier – Boris Johnson made a sombre speech from Downing Street.

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