Independents could 'suffer most' under premises rules, IPF chair warns

Pharmacy Voice urges government to slash red tape

Independents will not survive alone, Alliance director tells Sigma delegates

Commissioning tsar pledges to champion pharmacy concerns over health bill

Scotland's chronic medicine service and e-script payments get funding boost

• Superdrug, Asda and Tesco named in controversial work experience scheme

• GPhC to target ‘higher risk’ pharmacies in premises standards shake-up

• ‘Truly shocking’ patient harm from stock shortages uncovered

• GlaxoSmithKline plans to beat downturn with multi-million pound marketing campaign

• Complaints about script payments on the rise

• GP-led commissioning groups set to control £65 billion

• Employers demand overhaul of ‘haphazard’ contract

• Pharmacy bodies square up to manufacturers and government at medicine shortages inquiry

• The NHS litigation avalanche

• ‘Alarmingly poor’ PNAs could hit future commissioning, pharmacy leaders warn

• AAH MD Mark James claims ministers are "in denial" over stock shortages

• Cumbrae GPs threaten to quit over pharmacy opening

• Sandwell pharmacies urge PCT to block health centre opening

• Pricing blunder leaves pharmacy businesses underpaid by £470,000

• Boots confirms plans to boost in-store health clinics

• Pharmacies paid for just 43 per cent of NMS interventions in first month

• More than 400 pharmacies suspect they have been underpaid by more than £750

• C+D takes your stocks evidence to parliament

• Pharmacists forecast further stock shortages

• Pharmacists slam ABPI call for separation of wholesaling and dispensing businesses

• Multiples back concerns over 100-hour applications

• Tough year ahead for pharmacy businesses, experts warn

• ABPI demands extra sanctions on pharmacists to tackle stock shortages

• GPs threaten contractors with 100-hour pharmacies

• Pharmacists claim EPS two switch is 'problematic'

• Boots sees double-digit growth over Christmas

• Church & Dwight recalls Sterimar Isotonic 100ml nasal spray over contamination fears

• Pharmacy is key to improving long-term pain

• Pharmacies the victim of 14 per cent of retail thefts, survey finds

• Chasing stocks takes a month a year, pharmacy staff say

• Five-day waits reported by pharmacies for emergency supplies

• Specialist health and beauty broker Robinson Young to enter pharmacy market

• Suppliers optimistic about EPS for 2012, but warn of smartcard hold up

• Pharmacists could abandon NMS over payments, experts warn

• Numark slams manufacturer quotas as ‘a weapon of commercial protection’

• C+D Stocks Survey reveals extent of medicines shortages burden

• Pharmacy contractors sell up as category M clawbacks bite

• A new robotic pharmacy and an update for the Drug Tariff

• Multiples freeze 2012 locum rates

• High court rules NI pharmacy funding cuts made without proper consultation

• Boehringer Ingelheim found in breach of advertising standards

• Script payment error check deadline looming, warns PSNC

• Adapt or die, Alphega tells independents

• Sainsbury’s bucks vitamins trend with 200 per cent sales uplift

• Northern Ireland pharmacy braced for funding cuts decision

• Novartis discontinues Estraderm patches

• Pharmacy must not take cuts lying down, warns Pharmacy Voice

• NHS PS breaches information governance 19 times since CIP

• Pharmacy Voice backs Mary Portas report on ‘dire’ high streets

• Northern Ireland unveils plans to reintroduce prescription charges

• Johnson & Johnson tips pharmacy for growth under NHS reforms

• Pharmaceutical & General Provident Society launches online mortgage service for members

• Teva and P&G announce healthcare partnership

• Half of pharmacies set to deliver NMS within month of launch

• Allergy preventatives business eyes pharmacy expansion

• Boots bags Network Rail’s first purpose-built unit at Waterloo

• NPA receives 20 calls a day from pharmacists "out of pocket" on NMS

• North London MPs surprised by what pharmacy can offer

• Alliance Boots eyes rapid international growth for Alphega network

• Pfizer cuts discounts from January 1

• Retail sales figures show ‘worrying lack of cheer’, says BRC

• 100-hour applications more than double in a year

• AAH lands exclusive Merck Serono fertility drug distribution deal

• PSNC and NHS Employers review NMS payment structure following concerns

• Patients lobby against Northern Ireland funding cuts

• Edinburgh pharmacy triumphs at Alliance Healthcare awards

• Pharmacy dispensing machine company eyes UK expansion

• Retailers call for cap on national minimum wage rise

• 100-hour review is a ‘Trojan horse’, says Beta Buying Group

• Boots opens 14th in-store GP surgery in Derby

• Lloydspharmacy opens second health village with day spa and private dentist

• APPG launches medicines shortages inquiry

• Day Lewis to plough £3m into thehealthcounter.com

• GPhC pledges to reduce bureacracy in premises regulations

• Patients back regulation to ensure pharmacy supply

• Day Lewis plans to double in size in next decade

• Sainsbury’s opens GP surgery at Bath store

• Sainsbury’s confirms third in-store GP surgery

• MediEstates launches pharmacy broker division

• Supply chain guidance is ‘not worth paper it is written on’, experts warn

• Alphega Pharmacy teams up with Sigma and relaunches support packages

• Department of Health never believed guidance would solve pharmacy stock shortages

• Lloydspharmacy slams ‘intolerable’ stock shortages

• Sainsbury’s confirms hospital pharmacy will open next year

• Lloydspharmacy parent Celesio ‘on solid ground again’ despite 18.7 per cent profits fall

• Mike Holden: Pharmacists must be paid to promote self-care

• Government must address failure to promote pharmacy, says Numark

• London LPC offers free health checks to promote role to public

• Supply chain regulations “not fit for purpose”, BAPW warns government

• Neal’s Yard amends website after complaint about homeopathy ads

• Patients more aware of pharmacy services but using them less, survey suggests

• Pharmacies being forced out of business by 'severe' cashflow problems

• Colgate mouthwash recalled over contamination fears

• Alliance Boots growth slows amid continuing economic pressure

• Sainsbury’s launches pharmacy healthy living campaign