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The ease with which patients can access their local community pharmacy during NHS strike action is a “double-edged sword” for the sector due to workload and funding pressures, the NPA has told C+D.
Royal College of Nursing members in 73 hospital trusts in England walked out today – in what the union is calling “the biggest day of industrial action” in the NHS’s 75-year history – accompanied by Unite union ambulance staff across England and Wales.
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0Margaret Billings sustained fatal injuries when she was caught between a moving boat and a riverbank during a day out “with family and friends”, an inquest has found.
2C+D rounds up some of the immediate pharmacy reaction to news that NHS England will be abolished, with more control moving back to the government and local leaders…
3Wes Streeting has revealed that the DH is “immediately” working to scrap NHS England (NHSE) and put a new “transformation team” in place – adding that it is in the “very final stages” of concluding a new pharmacy contract deal.
3The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has responded to criticisms of its plans to register as a charity and gain royal college status, stressing that it followed a “democratic process”.
0The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has called for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) to “abandon its hastily convened ballot” on royal college status, while others called for a dissenting board member to “resign immediately”.
