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Describing the situation as "ridiculous", MPs have called for HIV drug pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to be made “more readily available” outside of sexual health clinics and to “tear down” the regulations stopping community pharmacies from prescribing the medicine.
The government has announced the dates for pharmacies to begin delivering free flu vaccinations in the autumn with no changes made to the eligible cohorts.
The pharmacy minister has told MPs that the responsibility “clearly” falls on employers to keep community pharmacists in work by making their jobs “attractive”.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has proposed changes to its Royal Charter to help create “a robust foundation” for the membership body, with the vote on its royal college bid to open in just over a month's time.
A fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee has suspended a pharmacist for four months after she shared “misinformation about the MMR vaccination and autism”, which “risked serious harm” to a patient.
The Northern Irish (NI) pharmacy regulator has appointed a new chief executive after months of delay.