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What happened in the community pharmacy market last month?
Pharmacists should be used to their “full potential” to make a “bigger” contribution to public health rather than being asked “to rely on the sale of cosmetics”, a member of the House of Lords has argued.
CPE has urged pharmacies to “check your invoices” after some were wrongly charged almost £2,000 per pack against NHS prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medication Inclisiran.
The medicines watchdog has revealed that it seized more than 17 million doses of illegally traded medicines amounting to a “potential street value” of more than £40 million in 2024.
A trainee pharmacist has been fined more than £1,000 after pleading guilty to posting a “grossly offensive” and “hateful antisemitic” message on social media.
The government has announced that it has finally “entered into consultation with Community Pharmacy England (CPE)” on funding and contract arrangements for both this year and next year.
An Exeter pharmacy was left locked out of its premises by its GP landlord following months of negotiations over “extortionate” rental costs, C+D has learned.
Independent pharmacy leaders have warned that draft GPhC guidance allows patients to “inappropriately access weight loss injections”, while representatives for the largest pharmacies have said that no additional regulations are needed.
A ‘ghost sign’ for a pharmacy that traded over a hundred years ago has been uncovered on an escape room’s shopfront during a refurbishment.
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has warned that it will investigate Pharmacy First claims, with payments only made to pharmacy owners whose claims are found to be “lawful”.
MPs have called for clarifications of advertising restrictions for nicotine vapes to ensure pharmacists don’t find themselves “on the wrong side of the law” for promoting vaping as a “stop smoking device”.
Storm Éowyn has temporarily shut down some Northern Irish pharmacies after the Met Office issued a red weather warning that “represents a likely danger to life and severe disruption”.
A pharmacist has received a six-figure loan from the Welsh government to open a new pharmacy with rentable consultation rooms for other “independent contractors”.
Tauqeer Azam has been found guilty of sexually assaulting one woman and directing “remarks of a sexual nature” to another while conducting medical examinations at two pharmacies.
Jhoots pharmacy staff have handed in their notice after a missed January pay-day left them facing eviction and unable to “afford school lunches”, C+D has learned.
A manufacturer is recalling several batches of cough medicine, including some it produces for Tesco and Asda, after “foreign material” was found in some bottles.
Award-winning Wicker Pharmacy in Sheffield has celebrated 73 years of late opening “every single day”.
A London integrated care board (ICB) is “working to understand” a national dip in Pharmacy First referrals from GPs in the summer, C+D has learned.
The use of weight loss drugs has been associated with a “reduced risk of substance use” and “neurocognitive disorders” including Alzheimer’s and dementia – along with a handful of other illnesses – a new study has revealed.
A US government report has found that three of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) “hiked costs” of “lifesaving drugs” including cancer and HIV treatments by “thousands of percent” between 2017 and 2022.