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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

Policy makers need to look to the innovative potential of community pharmacy to solve the NHS access crisis

Pharmacists are advised that despite early glitches most medicine packs with FMD safety features may be dispensed

Regulators are expected to be “pragmatic” about enforcement, according to the FMD Working Group 

By Gareth Jones, NPA head of corporate affairs “I’ve just seen this NHS plan... and we’re not in it,” is how one NPA member reacted when the 10-year plan was published. While it is true there are few references to community pharmacy specifically, there is a lot about community-based services, medicines, workforce, urgent care and prevention, which are all areas inherently in our sector’s sphere of interest.

The NPA reinforced its message that laws should be changed to allow pharmacies to share medicines 

Pharmacies not yet compliant with the Falsified Medicines Directive still have time – but the clock is ticking...