McNeil’s award winning training modules for pharmacy support staff cover a range of key OTC areas such as Allergy, Stop Smoking, Travel Health, Customer Service, Winter Health, Dry Skin, Children’s Health and more.
In an exclusive interview with C+D editor Gary Paragpuri, Alliance Boots chairman Stefano Pessina reveals how his mantra of double-digit growth is at the heart of the health and beauty giant's business philosophy
The PDA has written to pharmacy minister Earl Howe calling for Responsible Pharmacist regulations to be suspended until a review of supervision is carried out.
The Government will task regulatory watchdog The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) to review the RPSGB’s handling of complaints, following concer...
Part two of the Update series on end of life care, which can be used for your CPD, considers common end of life symptoms such as constipation, cachexia and breathlessness.
David Spencer has an angry customer. Her son has come out in white blotches and she's blaming the moisturising cream he was prescribed for his eczema. Could she be right?
All pharmacies may be at risk of crime, but with careful planning you can minimise the risks, says Zoe Smeaton in the fourth part of our health and wellbeing at work series
What’s changed and what hasn’t since the Elizabeth Lee case? Jennifer Richardson reveals what you need to know now about the criminal prosecution of dispensing errors
You receive a repeat prescription for MST from a local surgery on a Friday afternoon, but it has not been dated. You have a good working relationship with the surgery and are happy it will be amended first thing on Monday. Do you supply?
All pharmacies have some patients who would benefit from losing weight.
C+D is following two pharmacies offering rather different programmes to find out how you can best go about helping them.
Zoe Smeatonreports
The risk of recurrent stroke in survivors of an ischaemic stroke or TIA (transient ischaemic attack) is high. The annual risk is 10 per cent in the first year and 5 per cent in each subsequent year. These patients are also at risk of other vascular events such as myocardial infarction.
Reflect: What are the risk factors for a patient who has had a stroke or TIA?
Plan: C+D's MUR tips on secondary prevention covers drug therapy, including monitoring and side effects, and lifestyle interventions to reduce the risk of a recurrent stroke.
Act: Read C+D's MUR tip to brush up your knowledge of secondary prevention.
Evaluate: What will you check during your next MUR with a patient who has had a stroke or TIA, and what advice will you give?
We all know that public services can only ever improve, and new policies must always be an advancement, so a radical shake-up of the NHS was inevitable – after all, a new government can’t just put its feet up and say “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”, so we have to have yet another white paper – this parliament’s attempt to reinvent the NHS wheel.
Reports that PCTs are scrapping minor ailments schemes in a bid to cut costs says more about the asymmetry of primary healthcare funding than it does about the value of the schemes themselves.
Air travel poses no significant threat to cardiovascular health for most patients, according to media outlets this week. So what does this mean for sunseekers preparing to jet off on their summer holidays when it comes to preventing DVT?
I have a regular Monday-shift every fortnight for a pharmacy in Crawley, near Gatwick Airport and I was recently asked to cover a full two weeks whilst the regular pharmacist took her holiday.
29/07/2010
As the dust settles on last week’s white paper, Chris Chapman asks how community pharmacy will fare when GP-led consortia take over commissioning
Part two of the Update series on end of life care, which can be used for your CPD, considers common end of life symptoms such as constipation, cachexia and breathlessness.
David Spencer has an angry customer. Her son has come out in white blotches and she's blaming the moisturising cream he was prescribed for his eczema. Could she be right?
All pharmacies may be at risk of crime, but with careful planning you can minimise the risks, says Zoe Smeaton in the fourth part of our health and wellbeing at work series
What’s changed and what hasn’t since the Elizabeth Lee case? Jennifer Richardson reveals what you need to know now about the criminal prosecution of dispensing errors
You receive a repeat prescription for MST from a local surgery on a Friday afternoon, but it has not been dated. You have a good working relationship with the surgery and are happy it will be amended first thing on Monday. Do you supply?
All pharmacies have some patients who would benefit from losing weight.
C+D is following two pharmacies offering rather different programmes to find out how you can best go about helping them.
Zoe Smeatonreports
Whether talking to your boss or your customers, theatre expert Ron Aldridge tells
Hannah Flynn how to make that first impression count
Durex head of marketing Ruth Gresty explains to Hannah Flynn how pharmacists can use Durex’s summer campaign to boost sales of the range
We all know that public services can only ever improve, and new policies must always be an advancement, so a radical shake-up of the NHS was inevitable – after all, a new government can’t just put its feet up and say “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”, so we have to have yet another white paper – this parliament’s attempt to reinvent the NHS wheel. 
