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UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board meetings underway

Three-year programme to improve collaboration across the UK pharmacy professional leadership bodies and specialist professional groups gets underway.

07 May 2024

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Opinion: I am standing for the RPS English Pharmacy Board. This is why

“Why are you bothering to stand for election to the RPS English Pharmacy Board?” was a question I was recently asked. Candidate Steve Churton reflects on his personal motivation and explains...

07 May 2024

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PDA: Pharmacy professional leadership board must publish more details about members

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association wants information about organisations members are associated and involved with to be published.

22 Apr 2024

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Three community pharmacy representatives appointed to UK leadership board

Expert members announced ahead of first meeting on April 23.

11 Apr 2024

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, January 19

The Editors are back with the first Talking Pharmacy pod of the year and their predictions – good and bad – for community pharmacy in 2024.

19 Jan 2024

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PDA repeats call for CQC to regulate pharmacy premises

Non-pharmacist business owners should also be regulated, he told MPs at an evidence session for the parliamentary pharmacy inquiry.

18 Jan 2024

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A remarkable feat of resilience and commitment

Wherever you practise in the UK, winter means more work. Pharmacies have a lot on their plate – and I don’t just mean Christmas dinner, says NPA chair Nick Kaye.

14 Dec 2023

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Professional Leadership Advisory Board launches and chair announced

Sir Hugh Taylor, who has held senior roles in the Department of Health and Social Care and Cabinet Office, is the Board’s independent chair.

23 Oct 2023

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Leadership commission lacks transparency and makes slow progress

Royal Pharmaceutical Society chief executive Paul Bennett and president Claire Anderson have criticised the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership.

08 Sep 2023

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Opinion: We need one vision and one voice

The lack of a single voice in pharmacy continues to hold the sector back, says Mike Holden, associate director, Pharmacy Complete.

16 Aug 2023

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Commentary: The RPS needs to be replaced

Pharmacy’s professional leadership body is not in a good place, mired in controversies of its own making. It should consider the bold step of dissolution, argues former president Steve Churton.

31 Jul 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine In Conversation With podcast – June 23, 2023

Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talks to NAPC president Ash Soni about where community pharmacy really sits in an increasingly localised NHS and why the sector needs much stronger professional leadership.

22 Jun 2023

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UK chief officers spell out vital role of good professional leadership

Chief pharmacists outline impact of good external professional advice and highlight rationale for transitional Pharmacy Leadership Council

15 May 2023

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PDA to build on Ukraine experience with charity for humanitarian aid

PDA establishes Medicines to Ukraine charity on the back of campaign

04 May 2023

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Reader's Letter: Pharmacists need better leadership

We continually hear pharmacy representatives moaning about community pharmacists leaving for other roles. Perhaps stronger leadership would have prevented this from happening.

25 Apr 2023

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