Stock shortages exclusive Labour MP and all-party pharmacy group chair Kevin Barron says pharmacists should be compensated for the time they spend sourcing medicines

Public health 106,948 kits scanned through pharmacy tills as PSNC hails Quit Kit campaign a success

Multiples Lloydspharmacy has urged more people to visit pharmacies for blood pressure checks, after data collected from its blood pressure service found seven out of every ten patients had "above normal" blood pressure.

Product The MHRA has suspended its licence for Teva and Numark levothyroxine 100mcg tablets after manufacturing problems and concerns the tablets are not interchangeable with other brands.

Business Independent pharmacies must work together or face extinction, Alliance Healthcare commercial director Tony Foreman has told the Sigma conference.

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?

Ethical Dilemma A customer comes into the pharmacy waving a plain box labelled amoxicillin and threatening to sue you. What should you do?

Ethical Dilemma You have become increasingly worried about a pre-reg trainee's attitude. What should you do?

C+D Awards 2012 Melanie Hall finds out how great teamwork can mean an even better pharmacy

As Pharmacy Voice unveils its action plan for the sector, CEO Rob Darracott tells Gary Paragpuri why it is fighting back against the status quo

Practical Approach A woman has asked at the Update Pharmacy medicines counter for something for a badly blocked nose. Pharmacist David Spencer questions her to find out what condition she is suffering from.

Practical Approach You see a dispensing assistant snipping the expiry date off a blister pack. Is this a matter that could give rise to whistleblowing?

Practical Approach A prescription is presented to you for oxycodone, written and signed by a nurse non-medical prescriber. Can you dispense it?

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