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.