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Funded community pharmacy technician apprenticeship ‘oversubscribed’

Funded community pharmacy technician apprenticeship ‘oversubscribed’

The newly announced community pharmacy technician apprenticeship scheme is “oversubscribed”, NHS England (NHSE) has revealed.

CCA: 540 years needed to meet NHS pharmacy workforce targets

CCA: 540 years needed to meet NHS pharmacy workforce targets

Community pharmacy will take “almost 540 years” to reach NHSE workforce targets at the current rate of growth – instead of the planned 13 years – the CCA has warned.

Pharmacists urged to ‘submit ideas’ for 10-year plan to ‘fix NHS’

Pharmacists urged to ‘submit ideas’ for 10-year plan to ‘fix NHS’

The government has launched a months-long consultation asking the “entire nation” to help shape plans to “overhaul” the NHS.

I’m a pharmacist powered by AI. How could I possibly make a mistake?

I’m a pharmacist powered by AI. How could I possibly make a mistake?

AI might advance mankind, it might annihilate it. But before then, what might it do for pharmacy? Our survey wants to know...

Three-week Boots pharmacy union merger ballot opens today
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Three-week Boots pharmacy union merger ballot opens today

From today, Boots Pharmacists' Association (BPA) members will have three weeks to vote on plans to merge the union with the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA), C+D has learned.

‘A lot’ of ex-Lloydspharmacy branches facing ‘serious problems’, IPA warns

‘A lot’ of ex-Lloydspharmacy branches facing ‘serious problems’, IPA warns

The Independent Pharmacies Association (IPA) has warned that many of the pharmacies that were formerly part of the Lloydspharmacy estate are facing difficulties.

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Ian Strachan: If the IPA had been consulted, we'd have advised the NPA to call off its ballot

 
• By Ian Strachan

If I had been given the chance to respond to the direct remarks by Mr Rees on the Pharmacy Show panel about unity and his unfulfilled wish to meet with the IPA, I would have asked why he resorts to media, panels and WhatsApp groups to ask...

Political Pills: Fourteen years of neglect and incompetence? Let’s see how you get on...

 
• By Steve Brine

Many ambitions in the winning party’s manifesto are so top-line they could mean almost anything. Perhaps that was the point...

Steve Race MP: 'Without community pharmacy, people would be unhealthier and poorer'

 
• By Steve Race

Pharmacy has an historic opportunity to meet the potential they represent by working with government to deliver more - and should rightly want to be reimbursed sustainably for that work.

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The pursuit of harmony - can CPE find it?

 
• By James Stent

CPE’s committee represents the many voices of the sector, but does the shifting ownership picture across the UK mean it no longer represents community pharmacy accurately?