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.
Pharmaceutical companies and pharmacists need to put aside their differences and work together to ensure patient compliance, the C+D Senate has concluded.
Numark has announced that next year’s international conference will take place in Delhi, India from March 11 to 18 and is open to Numark members and suppliers.
The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) has announced it is running 30 workshops to help pharmacists with their basic internet and IT skills.
The Department of Health and the World Health Organization recommend that all babies are breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life, and alongside complementary foods for up to two years. Use this article as CPD to enable you to answer questions from mothers and give advice on any problems that may occur.
Mrs Dunstone wants a cream for her sore heels, but assistant Hannah thinks she needs to see the pharmacist. What causes cracked heels and how can they be treated?
The government has proposed abolishing the default retirement age of 65. Lawyer Gareth Edwards explains what the impact will be on pharmacists – and their pensions
You offer MURs but have heard that other pharmacists are reviewing patients with one main indication such as asthma or hypertension. These raise fewer issues and are quick and easy options. You wonder if this route would be ethical.
Stock shortages and supply deals have affected relationships with drugs firms. The C+D Senate investigates what a more dynamic relationship could deliver. Max Gosney reports
In the fifth part of our health and wellbeing at work series, Emma Wilkinson looks at simple steps pharmacists and employers can take to cut the risk of repetitive strain injury (RSI) and other work-related illnesses
One in seven people suffer from migraines. As Migraine Awareness Week 2010 approaches, the Migraine Trust’s Tony Bloomfield explains how you can help them
Patients howling in despair after being told they must wait days for life-saving medicines. It’s a harrowing scene you might expect to encounter in some war-torn, third-world country. Yet it’s something you’ll witness every day in UK pharmacies in 2010.
As UKCPA weighs in on the Mixtard 30 debate, Chris Chapman takes a look at how the insulin’s withdrawal will impact pharmacy – and the possible solutions to issues raised.
There’s only so many range extensions you can bring out before retailers will rebel against this lazy form of business, because the public are only going to spend their diminishing disposable income on something genuinely new.
Some years ago I had been working with specialists in the usability of technology, studying computerised dispensing systems, when it finally struck me – in a Homer Simpson-like ‘D’oh’ moment – that medicines are technologies, too
I got slammed for my last column – and probably justifiably – for asking what the fuss was about Sainsbury’s vending machines. One commenter asked me how I would feel if someone found a clever machine to do my job. Ironically...
02/09/2010
The Department of Health and the World Health Organization recommend that all babies are breastfed exclusively for the first six months of life, and alongside complementary foods for up to two years. Use this article as CPD to enable you to answer questions from mothers and give advice on any problems that may occur.
Mrs Dunstone wants a cream for her sore heels, but assistant Hannah thinks she needs to see the pharmacist. What causes cracked heels and how can they be treated?
The government has proposed abolishing the default retirement age of 65. Lawyer Gareth Edwards explains what the impact will be on pharmacists – and their pensions
You offer MURs but have heard that other pharmacists are reviewing patients with one main indication such as asthma or hypertension. These raise fewer issues and are quick and easy options. You wonder if this route would be ethical.
Stock shortages and supply deals have affected relationships with drugs firms. The C+D Senate investigates what a more dynamic relationship could deliver. Max Gosney reports
In the fifth part of our health and wellbeing at work series, Emma Wilkinson looks at simple steps pharmacists and employers can take to cut the risk of repetitive strain injury (RSI) and other work-related illnesses
One in seven people suffer from migraines. As Migraine Awareness Week 2010 approaches, the Migraine Trust’s Tony Bloomfield explains how you can help them
