This site is intended for Healthcare Professionals only

News

Keep up to date with the latest pharmacy news, insight, analysis and opinion from Pharmacy Magazine – as it happens. More

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. 

Keep up to date with the latest pharmacy news, insight and opinion from Pharmacy Magazine. 

Our daily news service provides community pharmacists with breaking political, clinical and business news, plus in-depth analysis of all the key issues. Sign up for our daily Pharmacy Magazine e-newsletter and news alerts.

Explore our pharmacy news coverage

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

  • Clinical news and in-depth features 
  • Business
  • Public health
  • Medicines
  • Policy 
  • Practice
  • Contract 
  • Services
  • Prescribing
  • Pharmacy First
  • Leadership
  • Technology
  • People
  • Education & training
  • Skill mix
  • Shortages
  • Closures
  • Plus lots more

We update our news pages daily, allowing you to stay on top of the key developments and hottest topics in our sector, as they happen.

Sign Up To Pharmacy Magazine Today To Get The Latest Pharmacy News! 

Pharmacy Magazine keeps you up to speed with the latest developments in the world of pharmacy. Stay up to date with news updates, alerts and features on the issues that matter most to community pharmacists in the UK. 

Sign up now to receive a wealth of information that will keep you at the forefront of the dynamic and ever-evolving world of pharmacy.

Less
Sandra Gidley.jpg

RPS: a €scandal€ not to make best use of pharmacists

The RPS’s Sandra Gidley has said it would be “nothing short of a scandal” if health services did not make best use of pharmacists' clinical skills

20 Apr 2022

Virtual consultations 1280.jpg

Remote consultations unsuitable for some pharmacy patients, warns NHSE&I

NHSE outlined situations where pharmacies should not go virtual in guidance released this month.

20 Apr 2022

Pregnancy 1280.jpg

GPhC condemns 'unacceptable' reports of valproate supply without warning leaflet

A Sunday Times report revealed prescribers are supplying pregnant women with the drug without proper information.

20 Apr 2022

pharmacist customer summary.jpg

RPS partners with health charity on workforce vision project

RPS and King's Fund to hold a series of engagement events to gather ideas for professional development.

20 Apr 2022

boots summary.jpg

Boots to stop selling plastic-based wet wipes in sustainability bid

Multiple writes to manufacturers to inform them plastic wet wipes will be banned from shelves.

19 Apr 2022

EHC summary.jpg

Some pharmacists pose a barrier to EHC access, says Government

Some pharmacists obstruct access to EHC due to religious beliefs, says Government report.

19 Apr 2022

STI test 1280.jpg

Few online STI test providers meet standards, risking public health

Researchers said regulatory change is urgently needed so all online providers comply with guidelines.

14 Apr 2022

young pharmacist summary.jpg

MPharm placement providers to receive £5k per student

Providers of clinical placements will receive £5k per annum for each FTE trainee pharmacist.

14 Apr 2022

antimicrobial summary.jpg

Two new antimicrobial drugs set to launch in UK market

NICE issues draft recommendation for drugs developed through new 'subscription' payment model.

13 Apr 2022

Mark Burdon 1280.jpg

Search for new PSNC North-East and Cumbria regional rep starts

Negotiator outlines plan to bring in replacement for Mark Burdon as North-East and Cumbria regional representative.

13 Apr 2022

rps summary.jpg

Ridge calls for review of RPS progress on founding ambitions

Society needs to guard against being too inward looking, warns former CPhO.

12 Apr 2022

boots summary.jpg

Boots parent may lose billions on sale of multiple

One potential buyer offered £3bn below asking price before abandoning its bid.

12 Apr 2022

Ukraine war 1280.jpg

UK pharma company donates medicines to Ukraine after meeting ambassador

Morningside Pharmaceuticals chairman Dr Nik Kotecha met the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko.

12 Apr 2022

Claire Anderson 1280.jpg

RPS president criticised over FIP remark on Twitter

Claire Anderson appeared to contradict the RPS's reason for leaving the International Pharmaceutical Federation.

11 Apr 2022

RPS building 1280.jpg

Ten contenders for RPS English Pharmacy Board election

Voting opens on April 29 for five vacancies. Those elected will serve a three-year term.

11 Apr 2022

arrows, pointing.jpg

Blog: Still time for the RPS to listen to members and change course

To see the Society slip into the self-induced chaos of recent months is frustrating and sad in equal measure, says a former president. It should stop swimming against the tide.

11 Apr 2022

Change privacy settings