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A new health and social care committee (HSCC) member has stressed that the committee will ensure the government’s months-long NHS consultation makes “some proper changes” amid concerns that it will just result in “more and more paperwork”.
A Jhoots Pharmacy branch has been issued a second bailiff notice after it moved from an ex-Lloydspharmacy to a premise previously own by Boots.
Stephen Kinnock has visited a community pharmacy for the “first” time since his appointment as pharmacy minister in July to “better understand the challenges” facing the sector.
The number of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescription items has rocketed up 22% in a year amid the introduction of a pre-payment certificate (PPC), new data has revealed.
A GP pharmacist and independent prescriber has been slapped with a warning after providing prescriptions to family and friends while being signed off as “medically unfit to work”.
Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has revealed that negotiations around the Pharmacy First service were “horrendous”, as core contract negotiations that were originally set to conclude in March continue.
The pharmacy minister has told MPs that community pharmacies’ “decisions to close reflect many factors” amid concerns about the declining numbers in the sector.
NHS England (NHSE) officials have said they will “respect” GP practices that have switched off Pharmacy First “update record” IT functionality, despite Community Pharmacy England (CPE) calling for commissioners to “push, push, push” surgeries to “play ball”.
A batch of anti-seizure medicine has been recalled as a “precautionary measure” after a patient discovered a small piece of metal inside a tablet, the pharmacy negotiator has announced.
The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has urged Boots pharmacists to submit internal complaints by the start of December so that they are “covered” by any “legally binding final decision” by the ombudsman on pension benefits.
The medicines watchdog has revealed that almost 50 patients have been hospitalised “in association with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs)”.
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The multiple has “immediately corrected” an advertised locum rate of just £11 an hour, after pharmacists on social media warned that low rates would see pharmacists “coming to a foodbank near you soon”.
The electronic prescribing service (EPS) is now available at “some” community pharmacies in every health board in Wales, the government has announced.
Just days after the government issued a “rallying cry” for ideas to save the NHS, it has been flooded with proposals for the pharmacy sector…
The number of 100-hour pharmacies has fallen drastically in less than two years, a CCA analysis has shown.
The pharmacy minister has said that government drug reimbursement does not aim to price match “every product” dispensed by pharmacists but rather “aims overall to reimburse” pharmacies.
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has found that the fitness to practise (FtP) of a pharmacist who “crashed” her company Citroen Berlingo van after drinking “six large drinks of her husband’s home brew” is “no longer impaired”.
The government has launched a months-long consultation asking the “entire nation” to help shape plans to “overhaul” the NHS.
A 27-year-old man has pleaded guilty of producing cannabis after nearly 600 plants were found at an old pharmacy building in Pembroke last week, local police have revealed.