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CPS: It is clear minor ailments service is extremely popular
Patients favour pharmacy over GPs for minor ailments, research finds
Of the 1,121 Scottish patients who accessed the national pharmacy minor ailments service and responded to a survey – which ran from June-July 2018 –...
10/01/2019 3
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Noel Wicks is director of the 22-branch Right Medicine Pharmacy chain
NPA board member resigns to focus on chain’s ‘increasing challenges’
Noel Wicks is the second member to step down from the board this year, following the resignation of south England representative Mike Hewitson in...
11/09/2018 3
Scottish government will also “strengthen and refresh” its pharmacy chronic medication service
Scotland’s minor ailments scheme to be expanded to all patients
The country will be “developing and implementing a redesigned minor ailment and common conditions service available to all in the coming year,” the...
05/09/2018 2
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Pharmacists to receive ‘mandatory’ suicide prevention training
In an action plan published last week (August 9), the Scottish government said it will fund the training for healthcare professionals providing “...
14/08/2018 9
EXCLUSIVE
Scottish conservatives say proposal will create "more round-the-clock care”
Conservatives must ‘show need’ behind plans for 24-hour pharmacies
The party proposed “extend[ing] the opening times of pharmacies to provide more round-the-clock care, with the potential for 24-hour pharmacies”, as...
01/08/2018 6
Approximately 85% of the annual turnover comes from dispensing (credit: Local Data Company)
Independent buys pharmacy for 'few million' in push for 50 stores
The acquisition of RS McPherson Pharmacy in Broughty Ferry in Dundee by Davidsons Chemists last month (June 1) brought the group’s total number of...
03/07/2018 4
CPS: This settlement will support appropriate pharmacy service provision
Scottish pharmacies to receive £2.6m funding increase for 2018-19
Under the latest funding settlement, the global sum will increase to £180.96m, CPS confirmed this afternoon (June 15). The increase follows two...
15/06/2018 9
Right Medicine Group managing director Noel Wicks: The pharmacy has a very good reputation
Independent group buys coastal Scottish pharmacy for £1.5m
The John Kennedy Pharmacy is one of four in Dunoon, a town on the Cowal peninsula, on the west coast of Scotland. The area also has two Boots...
13/06/2018 0
Rose Marie Parr: Contractors should receive their share of the fund by today
Scottish pharmacies receive £1.3m 'winter resilience' fund
Contractors are expected to receive their share of the money by today (December 22), the country's chief pharmaceutical officer Rose Marie Parr...
22/12/2017 0
'How our prescriptions rose 9 times faster than the average'
C+D and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) have joined forces to launch Pharmacy Show and Tell – an initiative aimed at gathering fresh evidence...
24/11/2017 2

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