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Pharmacy Magazine's news channel will keep you up to date with the most relevant news for pharmacists within the UK pharmacy sector. We select our pharmacy news topics with pharmacists, pharmacy advisors, and pharmacy technicians specifically in mind.

We cover a variety of pharmacy topics, including new government policies, employment updates, latest therapeutic, clinical and business developments, new prescriptions on the market, and more. Stay informed about everything happening in the pharmacy world and enhance your knowledge and understanding. 

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We cover a wide variety of pharmacy news topics that are relevant to community pharmacists. These are shown under the following key headings::

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  • Closures
  • Plus lots more

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Boots to donate 50k hygiene products to children via charity partnership

Products to be donated via The Hygiene Bank's network to schools and local community schemes

25 Aug 2022

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Boots’ chief pharmacist transitions to public affairs role in shake up

Marc Donovan to take on new role after seven years as superintendent pharmacist.

25 Aug 2022

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MHRA issues nebuliser warning to pharmacists and parents

Watchdog aware of a 'number of fatal cases' where unsupervised home use may have played a role

24 Aug 2022

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Fear about pharmacy technicians’ roles holding us back, says APTUK president

Claire Steele said there will always be some who "see pharmacy technicians as a threat”

24 Aug 2022

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NHS Scotland aims to reduce MDI use by 70 per cent by 2028

Emissions from metered dose inhalers had a greater impact than NHS fleet and waste combined in 2020-21

23 Aug 2022

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Preventable risk factors account for nearly half of all cancer deaths

Cancer deaths due to preventable risk factors rose by 20.4 per cent over the last decade.

23 Aug 2022

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Boots extends partnership with Deliveroo to 125 stores

The partnership began last year as a trial involving 14 stores

23 Aug 2022

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Independent hub & spoke facility appoints superintendent pharmacist

HubRx has appointed Dr Sarah Passmore, who spent 11 years at Rowlands Pharmacy

23 Aug 2022

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GPs to issue ‘social prescriptions’ for exercise in new pilot

The Government has awarded £12.7m to 11 local authorities for the new pilot

22 Aug 2022

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NHS to pilot smaller doses of monkeypox vaccines

The smaller 0.1ml doses are equally effective, says the UKHSA

22 Aug 2022

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Covid booster campaign to kick off on September 12

The new Moderna bivalent jab will be the sole vaccine used this autumn and winter

19 Aug 2022

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Clinical review: Why do so many with hypertension go untreated?

More than half of over-40s had hypertension in a recent UK study. Why is it so often poorly controlled?

19 Aug 2022

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DH has not ‘considered it necessary’ to limit medicine prices since law change

SoS has yet to use price control powers granted in 2018, despite concerns around present market

19 Aug 2022

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Scotland makes period history

Period history was made this week as Scotland became the first country to make menstruation products free for all.

19 Aug 2022

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Alitam plays down speculation over ability to finance big plans

Alitam's most recent Companies House report show its capital and reserves stood at £34,109

19 Aug 2022

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Closures crisis benefits no one

Temporary closures are dividing opinion and crippling the sector, our deputy editor writes

18 Aug 2022

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