Ministers “bear ultimate responsibility” for payment tech issues that have left Scottish pharmacies “tens of thousands of pounds” out of pocket, the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has announced.

The medicines regulator has approved the use of semaglutide injections to “reduce the risk” of “serious heart problems” in overweight adults. 

“Crazy” NHS contract arrangements have left a Devon landlord unable to move in a new pharmacy after evicting a Jhoots branch that it says didn’t pay “a penny” of rent, C+D has learned.  

A new health minister has said that the Labour Party’s flagship community pharmacist prescribing service could be “central” to increasing secondary care capacity.