As a pharmacy group that has acquired over 45 companies within the past 16 months, implementing a hub and spoke model of dispensing would allow us to create much needed capacity in our stores.
The response to the pharmacy inquiry is largely a story of future promise - not promises made. Some may feel this is a movie we’ve seen before...
Hopefully, the immense internet has taught AI an overlapping collection of norms, incentives and reward and punishment mechanisms that invisibly teach the difference between right and wrong. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called them “doxa”.
As we enter the new year, pharmacies have filed their annual accounts – with reports ranging from “satisfactory” profits to multimillion-pound losses...
This roundtable discussion explored how Hub and Spoke could offer some relief to the pressures facing community pharmacy.
As industry giant David Vanns moves into an advisory role at Weldricks after three decades with the company, he shares his thoughts on funding negotiations, DSPs, hub and spoke, and the future for pharmacy’s family businesses in an exclusive Q&A with C+D...
This is the final call to have your say in this year's iteration of the C+D Salary Survey...
What if the government has been working on a package of pharmacy contract reforms that would give the industry the structured and reassuring lift it deserves?
How do pharmacies continue with their business amid the pressure of war? C+D talks to a Beirut pharmacist about working during a conflict.
C+D looks back at some of the more cheerful news to come out of community pharmacy in 2024.
In part two of C+D's Review of the Year, we look back at 12 months of trade associations, politics, and what's happening in pharmacy around the world...
This ethnographic study explores the dominion of medicines and the curious behaviours of their devoted acolytes, as well as the sick and healthy Earthlings enthralled by them.
After a topsy turvy year we look back at the last 12 months in community pharmacy, with part one featuring funding, services, shortages and weight-loss jabs...
It’s that time of year again, it always seems to come around so quickly. Everything feels sparkly, glittery and christmassy, but in the world of community pharmacy it all feels a bit dark and gloomy. But...
Mounjaro has been an “overwhelmingly positive experience” for PharmaDoctor’s chief executive Graham Thoms, but he stresses it’s neither a “magic bullet” nor a “short-term fix” and that uniform regulation must be implemented.
We want to hear the important things you have to say about life in pharmacy today...
It was in the autumn of last year I became the NPA chief executive – and now, after an amazing period in post, I am set to move on, in mid-January, to lead the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Why have I chosen to leave the NPA? I will come back to that at the end of the article...
I’ve been behind Stephen Kinnock’s desk, and I know the advice he will have received on Hub & Spoke. It goes something like this… “Minister, Number 10 doesn’t want us to proceed with this until..."
Labour – remarkably – still has some way to go before it plumbs the depths reached by the Conservatives. But it is trying.
Changes to allow community pharmacies to reap the benefits from Hub and Spoke have been delayed, but results from a C+D survey say it can’t happen soon enough for some...