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Under FMD, every pharmacy will need to acquire at least one barcode scanner
FMD means pharmacies must buy scanners by 2019. Why aren't they ready?
There is less than a year to go before the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is implemented into UK law. FMD will start in all EU member states...
19/04/2018 0
The law creates two new defences of criminal breaches of two sections of the Medicines Act 1968
The dispensing defence is law. So why won't pharmacists report errors?
It took more than a decade for the new legal defence against criminal prosecution for an inadvertent dispensing error to be laid before parliament in...
16/04/2018 5
Hughes Pharmacy offers private blood tests for allergies and intolerances (credit: Kenneth Allen)
‘How we made a private allergy testing service work in our pharmacy’
We are the only locally owned pharmacy in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. My family has owned the pharmacy for 61 years, and all the team are local...
12/04/2018 1
Under GPDR, pharmacy owners will become data "controllers"
GDPR: Pharmacists' data protection questions answered
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force across the European Union (EU) on May 25. The EU says the aim of the regulation is...
10/04/2018 0
Male branch managers and employee pharmacists earn more than women doing the same job
Why are male and female community pharmacists not earning equal pay?
For the third time in a row, the results of the C+D Salary Survey show that female pharmacy managers and employee pharmacists are paid less than...
06/04/2018 8
A ‘reflective account’ should describe how you met one of the GPhC’s standards
Pharmacy revalidation: Everything you need to know
As of March 30, revalidation replaced prior forms of recording a pharmacy professional's continuing professional development (CPD) as the way in...
05/04/2018 3
EHC morning-after pill
Answered: Can you force your pharmacist to provide EHC?
One of the pharmacists at your pharmacy is very religious and prefers not to supply emergency hormonal contraception (EHC). Previously, he has...
05/04/2018 23
Pharmacy2U attributed most of its recent £20m loss to acquiring Chemist Direct
How healthy is the Pharmacy2U business model?
Since it was founded in 1999, Pharmacy2U has often been viewed as either an existential threat to community pharmacy or a harbinger of the inevitable...
22/03/2018 2
Amazon beefed up its team of US pharmacy experts last year
Will an Amazon takeover spell the end for community pharmacy?
Digital companies are famed for being ‘disruptive’ – ushering in a new technology, or a ground-breaking product, that displaces the conventional norm...
20/03/2018 3
The Online Doctor service employs 15 GPs and one independent prescribing pharmacist
How does Lloydspharmacy’s Online Doctor service actually work?
Launched in 2002, Expert Health Limited – which operates under the name Lloydspharmacy Online Doctor – had 1.3 million patients registered with the...
20/03/2018 1

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