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Boots parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has remained taciturn amid fresh rumours that it is in talks to “sell itself” to a private equity firm in the new year.
A pilot scheme making HIV drug pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) “more accessible” via community pharmacies is set to begin in autumn 2025, the Welsh government has told C+D.
The US President-elect Donald Trump has called for an investigation into the link between vaccines and autism – a debunked claim – and has said his health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will be “working with” drug companies to find out “what’s happening”.
NHS England (NHSE) has launched a “confidential 24/7 text support service” for pharmacists who are feeling “worried or overwhelmed” and need someone to speak to.
A pharmacy technician has been removed from the register after he “took advantage” of a teenager who he messaged on Snapchat and gave cannabis “to facilitate the offence of rape”, the regulator has revealed.
The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has begun an employment tribunal claim on behalf of pharmacists who were left in the lurch when their employer declared itself insolvent, it has revealed.
The Northern Irish Department of Health (DH) has announced that “an additional £15m” will be invested into community pharmacy and GP pharmacy by April 2027, “subject to additional funding”.
The daughter of a pharmacy worker who became a key witness in prosecuting the “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy is releasing a book featuring diary entries that shed a light on the impact of the murders on survivors.
Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has launched a new checklist, along with other resources, to promote Pharmacy First services in nurseries and schools.
Almost 30% of US retail pharmacies closed in the decade between 2010 and 2021, a new study has revealed.
An online pharmacy has come under fire for “treating injectable medications like grocery items at a Lidl checkout”.
The pharmacy regulator has suggested that its inspection of some bricks-and-mortar pharmacies be delayed, amid attempts to focus efforts on “pharmacy types known to present greater risk”.
The mother of a pharmacy student who died by suicide after her university wrongly told her that she had failed her second year is campaigning for universities to have a statutory duty of care to prevent more student deaths.
New analysis by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has found that the UK is “one of the worst countries in the OECD” for pharmacy provision.
A pharmacy group has warned that pharmacists have been “inadvertently undermined” and are at risk of being “sidelined” by recent government policies aimed at “upskilling pharmacy technicians”.
The “first” NHS Mounjaro patients of a possible 3.4 million are set to receive the weight loss jab by March 2025, NICE has revealed in new draft guidance, while the first generic GLP-1 weight loss drug could soon follow.
CPE has expressed “severe frustration and intense anger” as it reveals that pharmacy contract negotiations are “stuck” between the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and NHS England (NHSE).
A 27-year-old pharmacist has been sentenced after he “abused his position of trust” and stole pregabalin, diazepam, co-codamol and codeine phosphate from the pharmacy where he worked.
Some pharmacies are “forcing employees to be designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs)” while DPPs at “one large multiple” are not “routinely prescribing themselves”, Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) members have warned.
The CCA has said there is an “urgent need to scale up” hypertension screening services in pharmacies despite GP leaders voting for these services to be “terminated with immediate effect”.