PSNC: LPCs to move towards ‘facilitative role’

Sigma Pharmaceuticals relaunches medicines exchange website

Council leader questions value of LPCs

Welsh doctors' organisations attack expanding pharmacy role

Winners of C+D's Platinum Design Awards revealed

• Deprivation and multimorbidity link prompts calls for greater pharmacy role

• Boots: pharmacy can ‘hold its own’ in the reformed NHS

• 'Dishonest and aggressive' pharmacist struck off

• Government must curb exports as stock shortages harm patients

• Specials drug tariff error leaves pharmacist £465 out of pocket

• Pharmacists can take lead in improving Britain's 'beige' diet

• IPF slams RPS for "inappropriate and wrong" comments on GP in-house pharmacists

• Pharmacist struck off after systematically overcharging Asda and shoplifting

• NPA launches flexible flu vaccination programme

• Pharma: bring exporters to task over stock shortages

• Pharmacist suspended after making dispensing errors and deleting records

• East London pharmacies face Olympic delivery chaos

• LPC chair calls for national menu of pharmacy services

• LPC chief warns pharmacy must “shake up” or lose out

• Pharmacist suspended for ‘regularly’ using cocaine

• Boots defends decision to refer manager who falsified customer feedback to GPhC

• Hospitals pile pressure on government to tackle stock shortages

• NPA secures three-year backing from Day Lewis

• One in 20 GP prescription items contain errors, study finds

• Pharmacists urged to become community champions

• Sue Sharpe: all pharmacists must take responsibility for sector’s future

• Pharmacist suspended for manipulating Boots customer feedback survey

• Legal experts split over re-wording of dispensing error legislation

• Deadline looms for GPhC's premises proposals

• Pharmacy has key role in saving NHS £238m

• We must talk the NHS language to thrive, Future Forum rep urges

• NHS reforms ‘could force national roll-out’ of electronic prescriptions

• GPhC premises standards proposals could set ‘dangerous precedent’

• Pharmacy ranked second most popular health advice source by London patients

• Co-operative Pharmacy scoops seven-year outpatient contract

• NRT and counselling do not boost cigarette quit rates, study finds

• Boehringer Ingelheim rapped by PMCPA over 'misleading' linagliptin article

• Pharmacists set for controlled drug prescribing role

• MHRA issues patient-level recall of co-codamol batch containing rogue blisters

• Hello privatisation

• Pharmacist suspended for ‘campaign of harassment’ against employer

• Remote dispensing could counter 100-hour threat, says Sigma

• RPS tight lipped over membership figures

• Dudley presses ahead with healthy living pharmacies

• Government sets deadline for review of dispensing error legislation

• Numark patient support pilot sees adherence soar 40 per cent

• NMS delivery slows as third of payments remain unpaid

• Boots cuts RPS fee contribution by half

• Recycling medicines could be a “win-win”, NHS sustainability chief says

• Illegal internet pharmacies targeting people on social networking sites

• Pharmacy withdraws multibuy offer following paracetamol sales complaint

• National minor ailments scheme agreed for Wales

• GPhC consults pharmacists on revalidation proposal

• PCTs leak patient data in 'appalling' breaches

• NMS negotiations have gone on too long, pharmacists tell PSNC

• Buckinghamshire contractors race for healthy living pharmacy status

• Croydon pharmacies braced to receive 40 per cent of NHS 111 calls

• PCTs drop health check schemes

• MHRA warns against unlicensed herbal slimming and sex aids

• Charity calls for expanded pharmacy diabetes role

• Locums battle against soaring travel costs

• Whitworth Chemists aims for 80 per cent healthy living pharmacies

• APPG chair: Compensate pharmacists for sourcing medicines

• PSNC praises Quit Kit campaign success

• Lloyds finds seven out of 10 have raised blood pressure

• MHRA suspends Teva levothyroxine 100mcg licence

• Commissioning tsar pledges to champion pharmacy concerns over health bill

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society stands by NHS reforms

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

• Politicians and senior GP add weight to 100-hour concerns

• ‘Truly shocking’ patient harm from stock shortages uncovered

• Pharmacies better than GP surgeries at weight management

• Rise in legal action over addictive drugs could hit pharmacy

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

• GPhC plans to slash fees 10%

• Pharmacist suspended for stealing £10 daily parking fees

• More than half of patients would use recycled drugs, survey finds

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

• Cumbrae GPs threaten to quit over pharmacy opening

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

• Pharmacy leaders demand greater role in HIV/Aids prevention

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

• NPA opens 2012 bursary applications; Online asthma test launches

• Quit smoking success rates remain low for pharmacy

• First NMS figures show slow uptake

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

• Pharmacists are key in helping over-55s with chronic conditions stay active

• Lansley sets out plans to improve public health

• NHS reform plans under fire from MPs and pharmacists

• GPhC begins work to introduce extra fitness to practise checks

• PSNC confirms information governance exemption

• Lansley pledges to investigate community pharmacist over disability discrimination

• Community and hospital pharmacists to share patient information through new national referral form

• Pharma backs pharmacy’s self-care role

• GPhC confirms dispensing error policy as C+D readers admit regular errors

• NHS shakeup requires ‘radical’ shift in pharmacy funding, experts warn

• MHRA promises ‘programme of action’ on dispensing error law and penalties

• Fresh EPS delay warnings for independents

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

• MHRA and RPS slam Poundland three packs for £1 paracetamol deal

Now here's a radical idea...

Atorvastatin takes the plunge

Putting the community back into pharmacy

Northern Ireland at breaking point

Teva on packaging

• The big society: part 2

• The jobs time bomb

• Question time

• NHS drug bill: anomalies, insights and trends

• Should pharmacists start recycling medicines?

• The big society?

• Taking prescription medicines abroad

• GPs and pharmacists - a match made in heaven?

• How to avoid deep vein thrombosis

• Jonathan Mason on the importance of local professional networks

• GPs: patient-focused or business-minded?

• Joined-up thinking

• It's time for action

• What else would you include on FP10s?

• Prescribing outside of competence: the verdict

• Pharmacy is getting personal

• Three great ideas for health campaigns

• Good advice about suncream

• Evidence-based practice

• Maintaining sexual boundaries

• Everybody lies

• Hey Sherlock, heard about the case of disappearing drugs?

• Sharing my NMS experiences

• Lost in translation

• Worried about the MMR vaccination

• Bottle feeding abroad

• Dispensing errors in the news...

• The trouble with decriminalisation

• Surely there's an exception to the rule?

• Mastering teamwork

• Sigma conference: day one

• Not a straightforward reorganisation at all

• Daylight robbery?

• Jumping through fitness to practise hoops

• Can a nurse prescribe controlled drugs?

• When should I consider whistleblowing?

• Making the most of MURs

• MUR Champion of the Year

• Branching out

• Hold onto your purse strings

• Your guide to legal changes in 2011

• Alphega talk retail strategy

• Community: the end-of-year report

• January 2011

• Does this patient just have a blocked nose?

• LPCs: contract debate

• Pharmacy in numbers

• Filling in the cracks

• Can you solve these NMS problems?

• A valediction forbidding mourning… or celebration

• Watch out - complaints are on the rise

• Customer complaints uncovered

• How to handle a complaint: a five-step approach

• Customer complaints: Your view

• Health ombudsman: ‘Not good enough’

• Social deprivation and the Essex seaside: my visit to a C+D award winner

• NMS is the first step to full engagement

• Prescribing power

• No more Mr Nice Guy I’m afraid

• Protecting our futures - preventing antibiotic resistance

• Facing the reality of surviving in the jungle

• Medicine legislation and polypills

• Keeping sane in a less than sane world

• We must adapt to avoid extinction

• ‘Contact prescriber’ rule paves way for new era

• Serious times call for serious actions

• Don't forget the topicals

• Hey you, get off of my cloud

• Managing Parkinson's disease

• New medicine service is a golden opportunity for pharmacy

• Does the government at last have a real plan for pharmacy?

• Who's to blame for Northern Ireland pharmacy's financial woes?

• Why fish pedicures should matter to you

• Bridging the divide with secondary care

• Working relationships must be personal not national

• Studying pharmacy

• Call to action

• Pharmacy and public health: the perfect partnership?

• Talking ill of the dead

• Your role in preventing self-prescribing

• Question 1: Do pharmacists have enough time to implement the NMS?

• Question 2: Do pharmacists need training for the NMS?

• Question 3: What obstacles will pharmacists face in delivering the NMS?

• Question 4: Is the NMS payment structure fair?

• Jonathan Mason on CPD and training for NMS

• C+D Senate: Making the most of the new medicine service

• Targeted MURs: hospital discharge

• Pharmacy and dispensing doctors cost comparisons

• Four common dispensing errors

• Targeted MURs: an introduction

• Jonathan Mason on communicating the benefits of NMS to GPs

• Help the aged, but don't over-medicate

• Your interactive guide to hypertension

• Nice guidance on hypertension

• Hostile engagement