Practice A new chair and five members are being sought by the GPhC council, which is looking for applicants who "bring a fresh perspective to the council"

Practice Pharmacists and GPs have hit out at the NHS 111 service this week for undermining the government's drive to cut A&E admissions by failing to make full use of primary care.

Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies

Fitness to practise Pharmacy technician Allison Markham, registration number 5003792, has been suspended from the professional register for a year for committing benefit fraud amounting to more than £11,000

Practice The government is spending £260 million on electronic prescribing to ensure prescriptions can be sent directly from doctors to hospital pharmacies, it announced today (May 17).

Practice The NMS should be offered to all patients with long-term conditions, the RPS has said in its response to research that shows less than half of patients read information leaflets before they take their medicines.

Nearly three quarters of pharmacists think they should achieve further qualifications to help them in their career.   However, time-pressed pharmacists said they simply could not fit...

Exclusive The programme board set up to review medicines law plans to have legislation put in place to decriminalise dispensing errors by the end of 2014, the board's chair Ken Jarrold (pictured) revealed in an exclusive interview with C+D.

Practice The government has demanded that healthcare regulators, including the GPhC, tighten up their procedures for breaches of professional standards this week, in its response to the Francis report.

Politics Welsh pharmacy leaders have welcomed the appointment of health minister Mark Drakeford, but have warned that he must stand by his proposals to make the most out of community pharmacy.

Practice The government has reiterated its pledge to consider decriminalising dispensing errors but would not be drawn on a timeframe, after APPG vice chair Oliver Colvile (pictured) grilled the health secretary in parliament.

Practice Pharmacists would struggle to meet the government's proposed duty of candour in the NHS constitution under the threat of criminal prosecution, the RPS and Pharmacy Voice have argued

Politics Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has placed pharmacy at centre of Labour's plans to make healthcare more focused on prevention and co-ordinate more closely patients' physical, mental and social care.

Public health Pharmacy leaders hit out at the public health minister this week after she claimed the country’s most obese people were usually the poorest.

Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies

Business The NPA has teamed up with online pharmacy TheHealthcounter.com to offer their independent members a range of online services, from click and collect to home delivery

The rise in Alliance Boots profits could mask underlying problems in the business, Planet Retail senior retail analyst Stephen Springham has warned.

Business Lloydspharmacy's parent company has reported a 0.9 per cent drop in earnings from its pharmacy division for the first quarter of 2013, but has maintained it is seeing “positive operational development” in its UK pharmacy business.

Practice The pharmacy degree should have more emphasis on clinical skills, leadership and business, say respondents to C+D's education survey conducted ahead of the C+D Senate on education on Thursday

Business Sainsbury’s has marked pharmacy as an area for growth after announcing an increase in overall operating profits of 5.1 per cent in the past financial year.

Business Pharmacists in England are suffering their biggest drop in revenue for four years, with some losing more than £100,000 from their annual revenue, contractors and pharmacy experts have warned.