 McNeil Pharmacy Staff training 
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. Phone assessment open until at least June 2011.
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Jonathan Mason discusses the shocking carbon footprint of the NHS and what part pharmacy can play to reduce its environmental impact
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The department of health round table discuss best practice and how to get involved
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The department of health round table discuss the role pharmacists can play in offering contraceptive choices If you cannot see ...">
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The department of health round table discuss the role pharmacists can play in chlamydia screening If you cannot see the video, ...">
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Andrea Duncan, DH programme manager, sexual health and HIV, talks about the opportunities for pharmacists in delivering sexual health services
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PCTs found deliberately extending prescription lengths in an effort to cut fees paid to pharmacists will face “severe corrective measures”, NHS financial dir...">
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A non-pharmacist with experience of running hospitals has been named chief executive of pharmacy’s new professional leadership body.
Helen Gordon, curre...">
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Eight batches of glibenclamide 5mg tablets have been recalled by manufacturer Teva after routine st...">
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Fife pharmacists have helped 170 patients achieve a healthier weight since January under an obesity beating pilot. The Cou...">
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Pharmacies are struggling to cope with increases in business premises rates, C+D has found, ahead of yet more rises due in April. One pharmacist told how they were being...">
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Pharmacy is a proven way of tackling sexual health issues, so why don’t more pharmacists get involved? An expert panel offer their top tips on how you can launch a successful service. Chris Chapman reports
With the NHS under orders to cut its budget by £20 billion in the next five years, does this signal an end to getting pharmacy services commissioned? Georgina Craig puts the questions to those who hold the purse strings
As a DH plan to raise pharmacy’s profile is devolved to primary care trusts, Zoe Smeaton asks what the ideal PR campaign might look like and whether this one will do the job
The winner of the Pharmacy Innovation prize at the C+D Awards proves the best ideas are the simple ones.
Max Gosney reports
Come April, new essential and advanced services will be added to England’s pharmacy contract, relating to the supply of stoma and incontinence products. The changes to terms of service and NHS regulations will affect all pharmacists. Legal expert David Reissner explains what you need to do
Speaking anonymously, pharmacist MA tells
Chris Chapman about being a Listening Friend for the charity Pharmacist Support
British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers
executive director
Martin Sawer
looks at what is happening to the medicines supply chain.
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I realise newspapers have deadlines to meet, but it’s very frustrating when reports on court cases are submitted for publication after only one side of a case has been presented. The press reports on the Carmel Sheller inquest this month were no exception.

“Do you pay for your prescriptions?” This apparently simple question usually elicits one of two answers – qualified with “Yes, unfortunately” or “No, they’re free” – but a promised review of exemption categories suggests the third “don’t know” option is true of the government.

Patients… You bend over backwards for them, run around after them, chase up their delayed prescription repeats which they did not order until the very last minute, deliver medicines to their home, even in 6 feet of snow… More…
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Do you know how a baby develops in early pregnancy and what advice you might give a pregnant woman? The first in a series of three articles describes development and physiological changes in the first stage of pregnancy and also reviews what the pharmacist might need to check.
A patient's sister, who often collects her brother's medicine, asks for a photocopy of his repeat prescription so that her brother can avoid having to take all his medicines into hospital. You have no phone number for the patient. Should you be concerned about handing over a copy of the script to someone who regularly sees what the prescription contains?
A three-month old baby is regularly regurgitating feeds and his mother is concerned. The GP and health visitor try to reassure her but she is still worried. How common, and what is the cause of, baby vomiting? What measures can be tried to alleviate it?
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Find out how much you know by taking the Responsible Pharmacist Quiz, based on Professor Joy Wingfield's quick guide to the Responsible Pharmacist requirements.
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