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

• GSK discontinues Becodisks Disks and Diskhaler range

• Co-operative Pharmacy finds ‘alarming’ rise in depression and anxiety prescribing

• Dispensing error decriminalisation proposal withdrawn

• APPG group extends stock shortages inquiry deadline

• Pharmacy technician registrations beat GPhC estimates

• National Audit Office gives damning verdict on neurological care services

• Government review backs greater role for pharmacy in Northern Ireland

• Pharmacy could cut diabetes deaths

• Pharmacists reminded to give fentanyl patch advice

• Pharmacist suspended for dishonest use of Tesco Clubcard

• Website offers advice to parents on children’s medicines

• GPs give mixed reaction to new medicine service

• Half of pharmacies set to deliver NMS within month of launch

• NHS boss sees ‘phenomenal role’ for pharmacy

• NHS boss promises major shift in culture to promote innovation

• NPA receives 20 calls a day from pharmacists "out of pocket" on NMS

• North London MPs surprised by what pharmacy can offer

• Sector must help tackle poor TB compliance, claims contractor

• Pfizer cuts discounts from January 1

• Labour leader on fact-finding mission at constituency pharmacy

• Patients back Scotland pharmacy smoking cessation services

• Dispensing error decriminalisation proposal ‘may not help’, expert warns

• Care Quality Commission is not delivering value for money, audit finds

• LPCs call for merging of PharmaBase and PMR systems

• Legal expert slams Department of Health delay over responsible pharmacist regulations

• LPC calls for rural pharmacy representation

• MHRA proposes ‘due diligence’ defence for dispensing errors

• Cutting edge research: from coffee to cure-alls

• Community pharmacy needs a ‘glass half full’ attitude, says PharmaPlus

• PSNC condemns supply chain hoops as ‘appalling’

• GPhC warns pharmacist for sexual harassment

• APPG launches medicines inquiry; drug regulation is killing patients

• APPG launches medicines shortages inquiry

• Patients turning to drastic weight loss tactics, Co-operative Pharmacy warns

• GPhC to assess quality of pre-reg training

• System suppliers to roll out improved NMS solutions

• Diabetes patients report regular hypoglycaemic events

• Language skills an FTP concern, warns GPhC

• Supply chain guidance is ‘not worth paper it is written on’, experts warn

• GPhC operating surplus rockets 40 per cent

• Pharmacy should base specials decisions on more than price

• Mike Holden: Pharmacists must be paid to promote self-care

• DH: Pharmacies should become ‘gateway for wellness services’

• BAPW sets out proposals to strengthen failing supply chain regulations

• GSK teams up with Co-operative Pharmacy for inhaler recycling scheme

• Government pledges action on antipsychotics in dementia

• PSNC defends obesity role as BMJ study backs commercial schemes

• GPs urged to utilise pharmacists after seeing their pay frozen

• NHS North West to launch pharmacy video campaign

• Mike Holden: Pharmacy must be ‘first port of call’ for public health

• DH sets out plans to scrap 100-hour exemption

• Boots removes homeopathic remedy advertising after MHRA upholds complaint

• Pharmacy minster pledges to amend dispensing error law

• Antiviral stocks will be sufficient this year, wholesalers pledge

• Pharmacists should help tackle vitamin D deficiency, PAGB meeting hears

• AAH hits out at ministers over failure to include pharmacy in diabetes plans

• Information governance toolkits released for 2011/12

• MHRA launches consultation on medicine legislation

• Anticoagulant toolkit set to help with service design

• Pharmacy should move off high street and into surgeries, MP says

• GPhC seeks pharmacist views on four practice areas

• Andrew Lansley dismisses pharmacy medicine supply chain problems