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Taking a break from coursework, Thorrun Govind reflects on this year's Pharmacy Show

C+D Conference The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) should enforce premises standards to ensure all pharmacies project a professional image to patients, MedicX Pharmacy chief executive Steve Jeffers has said.

C+D Conference 2011 Pharmacy could save the NHS as much as £500 million by improving patient outcomes, but needs to do a better job of selling the value it can offer, the chief pharmacy negotiator at NHS Employers Felicity Cox has said.

C+D Conference 2011 The management of patients with stable long-term conditions should be the responsibility of community pharmacy, Kingston Consortium member Dr Charles Alessi has said.

Pharmacists could consider partnering with other organisations to help provide what patients want, Boots health and beauty chief executive Alex Gourlay has said. Patients are likely to expect...

C+D Conference 2011 Pharmacy businesses are struggling to deliver a quality service to patients within the current contractual framework and a radically new approach to funding is needed, industry experts have said at a Dragons’ Den debate at the C+D Keynote Conference.

C+D Conference It is “blindingly obvious” that pharmacy should have an integral role in the new NHS, but the sector must get on health and wellbeing boards “quickly” to ensure it is fully involved in commissioning decisions, GP and NHS Future Forum chair Steve Field has said.

C+D Conference Community pharmacies are “fighting back” against supermarkets for their share of the healthcare market, leading market research director Tim Nancholas has said.

News editor Zoe Smeaton talks to CEO of MedicX Pharmacy Steve Jeffers at the C+D Keynote Conference about the future look of pharmacies in the UK