 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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The Association of Independent Multiple Scotland (AIMS) and the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) have signed an affiliation agreement to work togeth...">
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Pharmacy contracts covering the sector’s role during pandemics should be agreed in advance to make sure pharmacists are not left out of service provision, a group ...">
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A dermatology survey launched this week could help promote pharmacy services and encourage commissioning, its author has said.
A total of 3,500 pharmacies acr...">
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Patients love MURs but work is needed to improve the usefulness of communications between pharmacists and doctors, a research project concluded this week.
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Pharmacy minister Mike O’Brien has agreed that a five-point proposal to improve self-care should be given “serious consideration”.
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Pharmacists and other stakeholders have raised a number of concerns about generic substitution plans at DH listening events in the past two weeks, C+D understands.
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Boots UK and Boots Opticians have been awarded places in the 2010 Sunday Times Best Companies to work for list.
Boots Opticians ranked sixth place in the top ...">
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C+D features editor caught up with Incoming BGMA chair Michael Cann on her visit to the Sigma Conference 2010 in Shanghai
If yo...">
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C+D features editor caught up with Labour MP Claire Ward on her visit to the Sigma Conference 2010 in Shanghai If you cannot se...">
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C+D features editor caught up with PSNC head of finance Mike Dent on her visit to the Sigma Conference 2010 in Shanghai If you ...">
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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
Michael Maguire explains to
Zoe Smeatonhow he transformed his pharmacy to clinch the coveted C+D Community Pharmacist of the Year 2009 award
Bernard Mweseka tells
Chris Chapman how the personal touch bagged him the Pharmacy Manager gong at the C+D Awards 2009
The GPhC designate – which is preparing to be the new, independent regulator for pharmacy – is seeking views on its draft legislative rules to ensure they are clear, comprehensive and fair. Here, the GPhC team explain what you need to know about the draft rules for the new regulator.
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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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