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What is happening within our sector? The division we we’re seeing between the representative bodies at a time when we need to be more united than ever. I am horrified, but not surprised, at what we are seeing and hearing on the ground.

A Northern Irish pharmacy chain has called some of its patients up to seven times to give them advance warning of the introduction of prescription delivery fees.    

The Covid inquiry chair has apologised for pharmacies not getting the “recognition” they deserve for their “superb work” during the pandemic, while the NPA chair called for pharmacies to be seen as a “genuine part of the NHS family”.

A “vindictive” pharmacist has been suspended for a year after he “squeezed” his colleague’s bottom and sent her “crazy” WhatsApp messages.

A pill press manufacturer and drug supplier known as ‘Machine Guy’ has been jailed for 13 years after an NCA investigation found he was providing criminals with equipment and ingredients to create thousands of “potentially fatal drugs”.

An increase in employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and minimum wages will cost the community pharmacy sector more than £125 million, a new IPA analysis has found.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has stressed that the budget will have a “devastating impact” on the health sector, “but none more so than NHS GP services”.