Northern Ireland Health committee chair Michelle Gildernew lambasted the country’s chief pharmaceutical officer, Norman Marrow, when he claimed Northern Ireland funding was “very favourable” compared to the funding for Scotland and England on a population basis.

Northern Ireland The Northern Ireland High Court ruled that the government had not followed the correct consultation process before making the cuts, which represented a 33 per cent slash to pharmacy funding.

Northern Ireland pharmacists were braced for the High Court to decide whether the summer’s cuts to pharmacy funding in the country were fairly implemented

Ethical Dilemma A young man hands you a dental prescription for 21 metronidazole 200mg tabs i tds. You counsel him to avoid alcohol, but he's going on a stag do and proposes to start taking them after the weekend. How would you reply and what are the consequences of your choice?

Ethical Dilemma A patient has had a severe allergic reaction to a medicine you dispensed. There is no PIL in the box. Are you liable for a medicine's side effects? Is the missing PIL important?

Vantage Pharmacy turned to public health initiatives to tackle local health inequalities

C+D Awards 2012 Industry leaders explain why and how you should boost your role in public health

PCT Investigation 2011 PCTs are shelling out more on pharmacy schemes – but is this news as positive as it sounds, asks Melanie Hall

Clinical quiz Raynaud's phenomenon is a condition that causes the ends of a person's fingers to turn pale white, but what causes the condition? Take this week's picture quiz to find out

Practical Approach A customer asks to see the pharmacist in private and says that he believes he has an anal fissure. How could you confirm his self-diagnosis and what treatment could you offer?

Constipation is distressing and easily treatable, but many patients suffer in silence, too embarrassed to seek advice; around 5 to 30 per cent of the population are constipated at any one time, though only a fraction ask for help.

Super hearing is a power that all pharmacists are blessed/ plagued with, writes Babir Malik. But overhearing things isn’t always a good thing

Blogs Competition is part of life and, in some ways, the 100-exemption encourages it. But, writes community pharmacistRavi Patel , the logic behind it must be questioned when it is used as an extortion tool

Supply chain With stock shortages continuing to plague the sector and cases of patient harm being brought to the forefront, C+D's Zoe Smeaton talks to pharmacists, manufacturers and wholesalers to find out whether a solution is on the horizon

App of the week Glucose Buddy is a data storage app for people with diabetes. Users can manually enter glucose numbers, carbohydrate consumption, insulin dosages, and activities