Opinion
Labour – remarkably – still has some way to go before it plumbs the depths reached by the Conservatives. But it is trying.
This broad investment in the NHS will be most impactful, but only if matched with effective community care services on the frontline...
"The GLP1s are relatively new and are being rolled-out as scale. We have no idea what damage 20 years of drug-induced hyper-incretin-aemia may cause, but the history of abandoned slimming drugs tells me it won’t end well."
With the NHS under significant pressure, there’s a real opportunity here for pharmacies to support overstretched GP and hospital services - if they’re given the proper support.
What is happening within our sector? The division we we’re seeing between the representative bodies at a time when we need to be more united than ever. I am horrified, but not surprised, at what we are seeing and hearing on the ground.
In 2024, influencer Nadine Poole was fined for unlawfully posting online advertisements for prescription only medicines and possessing unlicensed prescription medicines. Do you know the law?
At a reception held by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, one distinguished guest, who is a leader in primary care, said to me: ‘Remind me who you work for? There are so many pharmacy bodies I lose track.’
One community pharmacist tells C+D how easily this fatal confusion could happen, but says it wouldn‘t be the only reason death occurred. However, they’ve also changed the way they do things since...
Community pharmacist and the PDA’s southeast regional committee chair, Nav Bhogal, says there are negative racial undertones in some of the language used in pharmacy. What are some examples, and what are some possible alternatives?
If I had been given the chance to respond to the direct remarks by Mr Rees on the Pharmacy Show panel about unity and his unfulfilled wish to meet with the IPA, I would have asked why he resorts to media, panels and WhatsApp groups to ask...
Many ambitions in the winning party’s manifesto are so top-line they could mean almost anything. Perhaps that was the point...
Pharmacy has an historic opportunity to meet the potential they represent by working with government to deliver more - and should rightly want to be reimbursed sustainably for that work.
CPE’s committee represents the many voices of the sector, but does the shifting ownership picture across the UK mean it no longer represents community pharmacy accurately?
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.