Practice Primary care experts have called on pharmacy to promote self-care to prevent demand on the NHS “going through the roof”, experts from managerial, pharmacy and trade bodies said this week.

A minor ailments service is such an obvious good fit for pharmacy that we have to make time for it, argues Xrayser. The problem is there just aren't enough hours in the day

Commissioning GP commissioners are keen to offload their minor ailments consultations but pharmacists may not have the capacity to take on the extra work, PAGB director of health policy and public affairs Gopa Mitra has said.

Exclusive Trialling the national common ailments service at two sites in Wales will enable evaluation of its cost-effectiveness prior to rollout in the next three years, the Welsh government has told C+D

Suggesting GPs commission a minor ailments scheme run by pharmacists sounds like a good thing, writes Dr Livingstone, but I suspect this approach would come back and bite us on the knee

Public health A European antibiotics awareness drive has sparked fresh calls for a national minor ailments scheme in England, after an LPC chair warned that "patchy" commissioning of the service was limiting pharmacy's impact.