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NHS England (NHSE) has revealed plans to add extra patient safety training to pharmacy continued professional development (CPD) requirements.  

New software that “automatically” shares GP referrals with pharmacies has been rolled out, just as new poll data has found that half of pharmacies have seen reduced Pharmacy First referrals due to GP collective action, C+D can reveal.  

Dutch researchers have found that ChatGPT produces “higher accuracy and reproducibility” than pharmacists when answering clinical pharmacy questions.

The locum booking platform has announced a new scheme offering five final-year MPharm students £1,000 “to support their education” and the opportunity to become “brand ambassadors”. 

“Not following” the pharmacy regulator’s proposed new guidance on weight loss drugs and online pharmacy prescribing could result in fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations into “all the pharmacy professionals involved”, it has warned.  

Amardip Virdi bought the “entire stock” of Ozempic at a pharmacy where he was working during a national shortage to supply it to private weight loss customers, the GPhC’s investigating committee has found.

A joint regulator “enforcement operation” is cracking down on swathes of businesses using social media to promote prescription-only medicines (POMs), while the government has raised concerns over online pharmacies prescribing weight loss drugs.  

An NHS Resolution pharmacy appeals committee has found it is “required to refuse” Pharmacy2U’s application to take over the ownership of LloydsDirect’s west London depot.

Newly procured electronic prescription technology will allow hundreds of community pharmacies to generate NHS prescriptions and “start delivering” new clinical services, NHS England (NHSE) has revealed).  

Prison prescribers will be able to issue electronic scripts to community pharmacies to “improve access to urgent medicines” for released prisoners from September, NHS England has announced.