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By Richard Thomas, editor, Pharmacy Magazine. It’s election time. The NPA has a new board – more on that later – and voting in the RPS English, Welsh and Scottish Pharmacy Board elections will open on April 30. Twitter is alive with election chat. Candidates’ views are scrutinised and challenged like never before, opinions exchanged, arguments fought out. It’s li  

After a lengthy campaign, a legal measure protecting UK community pharmacists from criminal prosecution for inadvertent dispensing errors has come into force

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

The RPS is consulting on the role of the pharmacist and is seeking views on a draft statement

Pharmacy bodies have welcomed the legislation to introduce a new defence for inadvertent dispensing errors

More research is needed before the recommendation that patients always complete a course of antibiotics can be revised, the RPS has said

A CQC report has found that pharmacists prescribed almost twice as many controlled drugs (CDs) in 2016 as in the previous year

Community pharmacist Ash Soni has been elected as the president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for a second time

The results have been announced in this year’s national pharmacy board elections for the RPS

Pharmacy organisations have queued up to express their disappointment at the verdict in the High Court over the pharmacy cuts

Pharmacist Paul Bennett has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Community pharmacists must be able to routinely prescribe medicines for people with long-term conditions, says RPS

Helen Gordon is stepping down from her role as CEO of the RPS in February 2017 to join the Royal Society of Medicine

Over half of UK adults self diagnose when feeling unwell, while more than three-quarters seek medical advice from the internet, reveals RPS survey.

The RPS has launched a new campaign to improve the care of people with long term conditions through the better use of pharmacists.

Pharmacy organisations have urged the Government not to go back on its promise to delay implementing the pharmacy cuts

RPS president Martin Astbury warns against any liberalisation of pharmacy's supervision requirements

Pharmacy Voice and PSNC have published their shared vision for the community pharmacy of the future

Martin Astbury has been elected president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

The RPS has pledged to tackle over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs to people with learning disabilities