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RPS launches general election manifesto on pharmacy

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society urged its members to send the manifesto to potential candidates in their local constituencies.

08 Jan 2024

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Online pharmacy guidance is clear, GPhC chief insists after BBC exposé

BBC reporters were able to buy over 1,600 prescription-only medicines from online pharmacies by entering false information.

05 Jan 2024

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DH launches landmark consultation on proposed supervision changes

Proposals would see pharmacists enabled to delegate more dispensing tasks to colleagues

07 Dec 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, November 24 (PodBean version)

Topics covered this week: health select committee inquiry into community pharmacy, co-codamol shortages and the complexities of the National Living Wage rise. Plus the big story that is dominating the headlines – Pharmacy First in England. How did it land with the sector?

24 Nov 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, November 24

Topics covered this week: health select committee inquiry into community pharmacy, co-codamol shortages and the complexities of the National Living Wage rise. Plus the big story that is dominating the headlines – Pharmacy First in England. How did it land with the sector?

24 Nov 2023

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Andrea Leadsom appointed new pharmacy minister

Leadsom, who entered the race to be Theresa May’s successor as prime minister in 2019, takes over from Neil O’Brien.

15 Nov 2023

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RPS calls for ban on retailers offering paracetamol multi-buy deals

'Self-regulation' not enough to stop retailers' potentially harmful practices, warns RPS

07 Nov 2023

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CPE asks independents and non-CCA members for views on future

Community Pharmacy England said independents and non-CCA members can “directly input" into its committee’s talks via the survey.

01 Nov 2023

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BMA: All pharmacy funding streams should be available to dispensing doctors

Dispensing GPs should have access to the same services and funding as pharmacies, says BMA

20 Oct 2023

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Labour have a 'different' approach to community pharmacy, claims AIMp

AIMp chief says Streeting keen to invest - but will he have the budget?

16 Oct 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine podcast – Talking Pharmacy, October 13

Friday 13th, unlucky for some – but not the CIG editors, who are back with a pre-Pharmacy Show pod. Visions, Boots bounces back, ARRS and GP locum rates, and post-payment verification for BP checks... all feature.

13 Oct 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, September 22

Westminster's pharmacist MP Taiwo Owatemi's recent speech in Parliament, NAPC president Ash Soni on the panel at the recent Avicenna conference, a new chief executive for the NPA and the review of hospital pharmacy care in Wales by the RPS – all feature.

23 Sep 2023

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NPA chief: CPE vision is ‘starting point, not limit’ of what pharmacy can do

Mark Lyonette said "innovation" must "be driven through local integrated care systems, not only the national contractual framework.”

19 Sep 2023

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MPs call for naloxone programme in England with pharmacy at its centre

Bring England in line with the devolved nations, Home Affair Committee urges in wide-ranging report

31 Aug 2023

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OPD law changes to come into force for private prescriptions this autumn

OPD flexibility for NHS prescriptions must wait until pharmaceutical ToS updated

17 Aug 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy, August 4

The CIG editors give their holiday reading suggestions and list their pharmacy highlights of the year so far. Plus some serious stuff – supervision and what the health select committee's expert panel thinks about the Government's performance over pharmacy policy. Answer = not much.

03 Aug 2023

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