Prescriptions

Pharmacy technicians, students and pharmacists are among those who are no longer free to practise tattooing or body piercing without a licence, while exemptions around take-home naloxone have expanded.

The High Court of Justice has called out the “gross incompetence and unfairness” of the GPhC’s handling of a pharmacist’s alleged role in “fraudulent” medication sales overseas, ordering the regulator to “undertake the whole process again”.

A 78-year-old woman has overdosed after being given excess diazepam and codeine she was “addicted to” ahead of an Easter bank holiday weekend, a coroner has found.

The RPS has called on the government to change legislation to allow community pharmacists to amend prescriptions when medicines are in short supply, a new report published today (November 26) has said.

GP leaders have voted “overwhelmingly” for pharmacy blood pressure checks to be “terminated with immediate effect” at the BMA’s annual GP conference – also calling for Pharmacy First to be “immediately discontinued” and funds “redirected” into general practice.

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has raised concerns that proposed changes to online pharmacy regulations would embed “potentially poor practice” and allow pharmacies to “circumvent” guidance.

A study of Welsh sore throat services has found that 24% of pharmacy consultations ended with an antibiotic prescription, compared with 39% of GP consultations.

A pharmacy group has urged the BMA to reject a GP leaders’ motion for pharmacy blood pressure checks to be “terminated with immediate effect”, which is set to be debated at the BMA’s annual GP conference tomorrow.

The medicines regulator has ordered an online pharmacy to amend its advertising for medication “not licensed for weight loss” following a complaint, it has revealed.

Facing almost £50,000 in wholesaler fees and NHS clawbacks, one Plymouth pharmacy owner has told C+D that she is still paying back a personal loan used to pay for NHS medicine.