Opinion
4'The sector is under tremendous financial pressure, but the measures we’re announcing today will go a long way to mitigating those pressures and help get the sector back onto an even keel.'
0How does community pharmacy balance providing healthcare and being a business, and does the label of ‘private’ risk undermining community pharmacy’s role in the health system?
5This huge roll of the dice will either make Wes Streeting one of the greatest Health Secretary’s we’ve had who saved community pharmacy, or another one who re-arranged the deckchairs on the Titanic and watched it fade.
10In an interview with C+D, Sadik Al-Hassan MP pointed to the fractured nature of the sector’s representation. He has a point, but there is no easy answer to reconcile a sector as disparate as ours.
0As we head towards the middle of March, I throw my arms up in despair as we still have no news on funding for 2024-2025 and beyond. Social media shows the anger.
2There will be a huge reliance on the senior team at Boots to deliver whatever plan transpires, and to prepare pharmacy teams for whatever difficult decisions will be coming. And they will be difficult.
8‘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…
12I 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.
7Community 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.
1How has the role of a pharmacy technician been professionalised, and what's their place within community pharmacy’s future?
Everyone’s talking about weight loss medicines, but what is the impact on fertility - and sex drive?
1GLP-1 receptor agonists can impact everything from periods to sexual desire to fertility and pregnancy - and it might soon be introduced as an effective treatment for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
3I would like to thank community pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy teams for delivering excellent clinical services, and would urge you to take part in the consultation.
0It was heartening to see the replies to this holistic question posed by C+D’s Salary Survey were not completely dominated by the fear of what’s to come - but teetering on the positive...
0Sadik Al-Hassan, the pharmacy lifer turned Labour MP, is sat in Westminster to talk funding, why Janet Morrison is doing an 'amazing job', online regs, and what pharmacy really wants from the future...
0Negotiations without workforce representation and behind closed doors are not acceptable. We need a new approach – one shaped by the people who work on the frontline...
1What's going on behind closed doors? As pharmacy demands transparency into negotiations between CPE and the DH, former MP Steve Brine offers sharp insight and a dose of reality...
0The CCA’s CEO Malcolm Harrison sat down with C+D and shared his thoughts on everything from funding to weight loss drugs. Here’s what he had to say...
3New regulations governing the online sale of high risk drugs are stirring debate among stakeholders. Is the market for weight-loss jabs as safe as it should be?
0The publication of revised “Guidance for registered pharmacies providing pharmacy services at a distance, including on the internet” was not a surprise...
0Treacherous terrains, monsoons, weak infrastructure – how does a corporate with a conscience balance profitability with dispensing medicine up in the mountains of Bhutan?