Undergraduate pharmacy students in Wales will get extra days of supervised placements in the next academic year, under an agreement between the Welsh government and pharmacy schools.

Factors including inadequate investment and workforce shortages have contributed to a rise in temporary pharmacy closures, local pharmaceutical committee (LPC) chiefs have told C+D. 

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has urged the Scottish health minister Humza Yousaf to take urgent action to stop temporary closures, in a bid to protect patients’ access to pharmacies.

Morrisons is set to introduce new opening hours in “a number” of its pharmacies from November this year in a move it says is designed to give employees a better work-life balance, C+D has learned.

Local incidents involving lithium prescriptions have prompted Greater Manchester local pharmaceutical committee (LPC) to remind pharmacists of good practice and the right protocols to follow.

With the outcome of England's community pharmacy contract still up in the air, let's hope the government doesn't decide to impose another clawback on an already beleaguered sector, says Andrew Lane

A new pharmacy walk-in consultation service has been commissioned in Tower Hamlets, east London, to help address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in some communities.  

A pharmacy in Islington, north London was forced to close for a day after a burst water main caused flooding of up to three feet and two sinkholes.

Boots is planning to launch a new locum management system later this year, as it continues to experience “some challenges with pharmacist resource”, it has revealed.