Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.
Latest from Kate Bowie
An online pharmacy has come under fire for “treating injectable medications like grocery items at a Lidl checkout”.
The pharmacy regulator has suggested that its inspection of some bricks-and-mortar pharmacies be delayed, amid attempts to focus efforts on “pharmacy types known to present greater risk”.
New analysis by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has found that the UK is “one of the worst countries in the OECD” for pharmacy provision.
The “first” NHS Mounjaro patients of a possible 3.4 million are set to receive the weight loss jab by March 2025, NICE has revealed in new draft guidance, while the first generic GLP-1 weight loss drug could soon follow.
A 27-year-old pharmacist has been sentenced after he “abused his position of trust” and stole pregabalin, diazepam, co-codamol and codeine phosphate from the pharmacy where he worked.
Some pharmacies are “forcing employees to be designated prescribing practitioners (DPPs)” while DPPs at “one large multiple” are not “routinely prescribing themselves”, Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) members have warned.