Children

Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has launched a new checklist, along with other resources, to promote Pharmacy First services in nurseries and schools.

The RPS has raised concerns that the ongoing ban on puberty blocking medication may lead to pharmacists not dispensing at all because they fear “prosecution”.

An emergency ban on puberty blockers places pharmacists in a potentially tricky situation. Legally, what do you need to know?

The multiple has warned that “recent warmer weather” has caused a surge in headlice infestations. 

Russell Buglass was convicted on charges including possessing hundreds of indecent images of children in the most serious category, a fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee heard last week.

London pharmacies will be able to offer the MMR jab due to “lower-than-average” vaccine uptake in the capital, C+D has learned.  

GPhC chief Duncan Rudkin has called for easy access to “support and care” for children with gender incongruence or dysphoria.

There were more than 500 cases of whooping cough in England this January compared with a total of almost 860  “for the whole of” last year, the government has said.  

Pharmacies are just “an option” for integrated care boards (ICBs) looking to increase uptake of childhood vaccines because parents are “more comfortable” getting their children jabbed at GP practices, government officials have said.  

Children born to men on valproate are more likely to develop neurodevelopmental disorders, the medicines watchdog has warned.