NPA

NPA chief pharmacist Leyla Hannbeck has left the NPA after 10 years to become the new chief executive of AIM.

Community pharmacy's unprecedented five-year funding deal has been met with a range of responses.

NPA members must ascertain the contents of any CBD products they intend to sell or risk losing their indemnity.

Nitin Sodha leaves the NPA board following allegations of NHS price fixing at Lexon UK where he is a director. 

In a message he recorded for the NPA Conference, health secretary Matt Hancock told community pharmacists they are a vital part of the health service and that they will be “ever more important to the NHS and the country in the years to come”.

LPCs should co-ordinate pharmacists' engagement with primary care networks across England.

Four pharmaceutical companies have provisionally been found to have broken competition law.

The clinical pharmacist role's expansion in PCNs could leave “a big hole” in community pharmacy, Mark Lyonette warns.

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) decided not to add pharmacists to a list of occupations eligible for relaxed rules around hiring non-EU workers

Nitin Sodha is stepping aside immediately while the CMA investigates allegations of collusion against Lexon UK, a company of which he is a director

Communities across Wales have a special affection for their local pharmacies, says NPA relationship manager for Wales Steve Simmonds

Pharmacists having to check their own prescriptions continues to lead to patient safety incidents, the National Pharmacy Association has reported

A 2019-20 financial package for pharmacy in Scotland with a £2.6m uplift from last year is “not quite” what CPS hoped for due to “one outstanding issue”

Urgent care referrals, medicines safety and “challenging discussions on funding and reimbursement” are all expected to be on the agenda

An increased focus on health technology will change the way pharmacists work. The question is – how quickly?

Health secretary Matt Hancock and NHS England’s director responsible for community pharmacy, Ed Waller, are among the headline speakers at June conference

Pharmacist Mariam Ahmed’s petition has received over 10,000 signatures, thereby requiring a Government response

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, is the headline speaker at a major national conference

PM asked the GPhC to comment on whether staffing levels could be contributing to a spike in FTP concerns

Many NPA members are paying out more in bills to wholesalers than they are being reimbursed by the NHS