Opinion
In early 2025, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) will ask members and fellows whether they wish it to be renamed the Royal College of Pharmacy. Two-thirds must agree. My vote, presently, is for college status but I might change my mind.
I know you are ambitious for change, and very keen to make better use of your skills, to better your communities. You have shown time and again how you can deliver, and we are determined to provide the support you need.
There are lots of questions swirling around pharmacy, and no 'right' answers. The only thing I am sure of is that we need unity, whatever we do, and an urgent uplift in funding, and we needed it at least five years ago.
Collective action is unprecedented in pharmacy, but the NPA is leading its members into a ballot that would see pharmacies work to rule - essentially curtailing all the services they offer for 'free'. With six weeks until the result, how do you plan to vote?
Welcome to another round of picking over the decaying NHS looking for morsels to reinforce already weary conclusions.
The decisions Wes Streeting and his team take in the months ahead could make or break the community pharmacy network in this country...
Dispensing a different quantity in a manufacturer’s original pack requires a pharmacist to make the supply or pharmacist supervision - and there is considerable lack of clarity over the meaning of supervision.
A coroner has said a national shortage of EpiPens meant a pharmacist could not prevent the death of a young girl. She's asked the Department of Health to take action. It's said it will keep thinking about it.
The RPS is clear that pharmacists must be able to conscientiously object to taking part in assisted dying. But two experts, a pharmacist and a doctor, warn C+D readers the existing clause is ‘deeply flawed’.
"I'm really, really, scared. I don't want to give the wrong information and I don't want to give the wrong product. And I don't know if I'm ever going to know enough to do it."
We need a complete overhaul in community pharmacy, and we need it overnight. We need everyone to work together. And with a new government in power, now is the time to state clearly what we want, and by when.
Prakash Patel, a CPE committee member, says to his fellow South Asian colleagues in community pharmacy: Your dedication, compassion, and hard work really makes a difference to the lives of those we serve...
'The influencer who contacted us even showed how to break the Mounjaro pen to get residue liquid out of the pen...'
Humans might not be able to keep up with AI which is bringing a deluge of new medicines – but community pharmacy might hold the solution.
Becoming a pharmacy technician requires a qualification, education and registration – so why shouldn’t they be 'pharmacy professionals' along with pharmacists?
As pharmacists join millions streaming to the polling booths, what state will the new government find pharmacy in?
‘The new Minister should not wait for CPE to call, he or she must call Janet Morrison and meet her within their first week…’
While the country eagerly awaits the General Election, Xrayser is worried pharmacy won’t get the money it needs for Pharmacy First
A fortnight ago, Rishi Sunak wrote to C+D readers suggesting Labour had no plan for the sector. Now, in another exclusive for C+D, Labour's Wes Streeting hits back...
After mulling it over for a few years, in December 2019 I submitted my application to gain permanent residency in Canada and begin the process of practicing pharmacy there...