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Sandra Gidley: Contractor funding is being eroded over the next five years

RPS president: The sector must grab opportunities in frightening times

In the wake of her election, Sandra Gidley gives her take on hub-and-spoke dispensing, increasing RPS membership, and why pharmacies must brace themselves for online competition

20/09/2019 2

PREMIUM

Revalidation: listen to an example of a peer discussion

Struggling with what to talk about in your first peer review discussion? Hear an example from two community pharmacists

11/09/2019 0

EXCLUSIVE

Mark Bather: I'm not a pharmacist, but that's not my job

Rowlands Pharmacy’s vision: A bricks-and-mortar and digital mix

Rowlands’ newly appointed managing director Mark Bather talks branch sales, automation and transforming the UK's fourth largest pharmacy chain

06/09/2019 0

The survey on pharmacy financial pressures was completed by 238 contractors

Morale sinks across England’s independent pharmacy teams

The morale of independent pharmacy teams has dropped and pessimism is increasing in the face of ongoing financial pressures, analysis of an NPA survey has revealed

22/08/2019 7

This is the first year some pharmacists need to submit a reflective account

This year’s GPhC revalidation submissions: everything we know so far

Are you prepared for this year’s revalidation requirements, which now include reflective accounts and peer discussions for those in their second year of submissions?

22/08/2019 4

"It was all a bit of a blur and very scary"

‘How I saved a three-year-old’s life with CPR outside my pharmacy’

Sam Hampton used his first aid skills to restore a three-year-old boy's breathing in a supermarket car park

21/08/2019 0

Pharmacist Federica Franco (left) with two of her Lloydspharmacy staff

The Wimbledon championships pharmacy: sunscreen, blisters and EHC

A Lloydspharmacist explains the challenges and rewards of working at a pop-up pharmacy during the world-famous tennis tournament

16/08/2019 1

Pharmacy manager Barbara Cobon alerted her team that a patient was having a heart attack

When pharmacy teams come to the aid of patients with heart problems

From carrying a patient to an ambulance to crowdfunding a defibrillator, here are three ways pharmacy teams have come to the aid of individuals with heart conditions

15/08/2019 0