Opinion
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CPE’s committee represents the many voices of the sector, but does the shifting ownership picture across the UK mean it no longer represents community pharmacy accurately?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.
A coroner has said a national shortage of EpiPens meant a pharmacist could not prevent the death of a young girl. She's asked the Department of Health to take action. It's said it will keep thinking about it.
The RPS is clear that pharmacists must be able to conscientiously object to taking part in assisted dying. But two experts, a pharmacist and a doctor, warn C+D readers the existing clause is ‘deeply flawed’.
"I'm really, really, scared. I don't want to give the wrong information and I don't want to give the wrong product. And I don't know if I'm ever going to know enough to do it."
We need a complete overhaul in community pharmacy, and we need it overnight. We need everyone to work together. And with a new government in power, now is the time to state clearly what we want, and by when.
Prakash Patel, a CPE committee member, says to his fellow South Asian colleagues in community pharmacy: Your dedication, compassion, and hard work really makes a difference to the lives of those we serve...