What you need to know about pharmacy and social media

 
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As one student scoops a $250k payout over a social media controversy, C+D explains what the GPhC expects of the pharmacy workforce and their social media activity.

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Running a medical cannabis service in your pharmacy

 
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Saša Janković talks to community pharmacist Dane Stratton-Powell about partnering with Curaleaf Laboratories to offer a medical cannabis service to his patients.

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Community pharmacy is challenging - especially when the community is in the Himalayas

 
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Treacherous terrains, monsoons, weak infrastructure – how does a corporate with a conscience balance profitability with dispensing medicine up in the mountains of Bhutan?


Pharmacy’s predicament: a psychosocial perspective

 
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Pharmacy often finds itself relegated to a secondary position in the NHS. How can a profession so deeply intertwined with human health become so undervalued?

Property round-up: Sales, openings, planning permissions, and very efficient robots...

 
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What happened in the community pharmacy market last month?

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Editorial: Trump invades Greenland, Novo Nordisk rides to the rescue?

 

As community pharmacy hotly debates whether weight-loss jabs are regulated closely enough, does weight-loss wonder Novo Nordisk have bigger things to worry about?


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We just bought 45 pharmacies - now we have an urgent need for Hub and Spoke

 
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As a pharmacy group that has acquired over 45 companies within the past 16 months, implementing a hub and spoke model of dispensing would allow us to create much needed capacity in our stores.

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Political Pills: What do I think of the government’s response to the pharmacy inquiry?

 
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The response to the pharmacy inquiry is largely a story of future promise - not promises made. Some may feel this is a movie we’ve seen before...

AI is storming ahead. Suddenly, I feel uneasy...

 
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Hopefully, the immense internet has taught AI an overlapping collection of norms, incentives and reward and punishment mechanisms that invisibly teach the difference between right and wrong. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called them “doxa”.


P2U, Jhoots, Enimed: Who made the biggest profits and losses?

 
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As we enter the new year, pharmacies have filed their annual accounts – with reports ranging from “satisfactory” profits to multimillion-pound losses...

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Roundtable to explore the impact of the delay in Hub and Spoke legislation - summary

This roundtable discussion explored how Hub and Spoke could offer some relief to the pressures facing community pharmacy.

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David Vanns: ‘I have deep angst... we are caught in a trap’

 
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As industry giant David Vanns moves into an advisory role at Weldricks after three decades with the company, he shares his thoughts on funding negotiations, DSPs, hub and spoke, and the future for pharmacy’s family businesses in an exclusive Q&A with C+D...


Last chance to add your voice to this year’s C+D Salary Survey

This is the final call to have your say in this year's iteration of the C+D Salary Survey...

Editor’s Opinion: Good news, the only way is up. Right?

 

What if the government has been working on a package of pharmacy contract reforms that would give the industry the structured and reassuring lift it deserves?

Beirut: a pharmacy during conflict

 
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How do pharmacies continue with their business amid the pressure of war? C+D talks to a Beirut pharmacist about working during a conflict.


The good news of 2024

 
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C+D looks back at some of the more cheerful news to come out of community pharmacy in 2024.

C+D’s Review of the Year - Part Two

 

In part two of C+D's Review of the Year, we look back at 12 months of trade associations, politics, and what's happening in pharmacy around the world...

From our Martian correspondent: medicines own Earthlings

 
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This ethnographic study explores the dominion of medicines and the curious behaviours of their devoted acolytes, as well as the sick and healthy Earthlings enthralled by them.


C+D’s Review of the Year - Part One

 

After a topsy turvy year we look back at the last 12 months in community pharmacy, with part one featuring funding, services, shortages and weight-loss jabs...

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Xrayser: Santa baby, here is what I would really love...

 
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It’s that time of year again, it always seems to come around so quickly. Everything feels sparkly, glittery and christmassy, but in the world of community pharmacy it all feels a bit dark and gloomy. But...