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A pill press manufacturer and drug supplier known as ‘Machine Guy’ has been jailed for 13 years after an NCA investigation found he was providing criminals with equipment and ingredients to create thousands of “potentially fatal drugs”.
Labour MP Sadik Al-Hassan has voiced concerns about the “decline of community pharmacies” in his first parliamentary speech.
An increase in employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and minimum wages will cost the community pharmacy sector more than £125 million, a new IPA analysis has found.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has stressed that the budget will have a “devastating impact” on the health sector, “but none more so than NHS GP services”.
A pharmacist has pleaded not guilty to causing the death of an 18-year-old by careless driving after a crash with the teenage motorcyclist near Brighton in the summer of 2022.
“The uncertain future of pharmacy funding” has contributed to the company’s multi-million-pound loss, its annual report has said.
More than a third of the public are still “unaware” of the Pharmacy First service launched across England in January, the NPA has revealed.
A pharmacist “with 14 years of experience” has received the six-figure financial support of River Capital to purchase a Liverpool premise, the investor has announced.
The medicines watchdog has received reports of some 10 deaths “with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) indicated for weight management” such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, C+D can reveal.
The pharmacy network has lost more than £115-million-worth of potential Pharmacy First funding this year due to “informal referrals” by GPs and NHS 111, a new audit by the negotiator has revealed.
Pharmacies in Devon are taking part in a new pilot service that aims to reduce the number of drug-related deaths in the county and trains staff to recognise and respond to the “symptoms of opioid overdose”.
The national living wage will increase by 6.7% to £12.21 an hour from April next year, the Chancellor has confirmed in her first budget.
A batch of beta blocker medicine has been recalled as a “precautionary measure” amid concerns that blister strips of a different medication could be inside the tablet pack, the pharmacy negotiator has announced.
Three members of an international drug gang have been sentenced for their role in the “large scale importation and distribution” of unregulated pharmaceutical drugs from India to the UK after police seized more than one million tablets.
The NPA has urged the government to include pharmacies in “any support” given to the NHS after media reports have suggested today’s budget will include a rise in employers’ National Insurance (NI).
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”.