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Pharmacy owners now have two weeks to update their standard operating procedures (SOPs), after which 70% of MURs must involve high-risk or hospital discharge patients.

The University of Central Lancashire and the University of Wolverhampton recorded pass rates below 50% in the June pre-reg exam, according to the GPhC.

Students witnessing the increasing workplace pressures in community pharmacies are being “put off” joining the sector, the BPSA has told C+D.

In the first of a new series, C+D gives you the key takeaway points from the latest Nice guidance

Pharmacists could have a wider role in the health service if they were not "bearing the brunt" of NHS pressures, MPs have told C+D.

An anonymous contractor is inspired by C+D’s parliamentary event on pharmacy pressures to describe how tough life has become for her family business

Teva UK has launched a website to support patients with chronic conditions as part of a visual identity change that includes a new logo.

The charity Pharmacist Support is “bracing itself” for an increase in its workload, as 61% of pharmacists responding to its survey call for help with stress at work.

It is “crucial” that every contractor responds to the government’s drug reimbursement consultation to ensure the survival of community pharmacy, a wholesaler has stressed.

Moving the preparation of medicine trays from branches to a central, automated system “has been a challenge”, Rowlands managing director has told C+D.

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

PSNC has just released its guidance for the national flu service 2019-20. Do you understand the requirements for the provision of the service?

High-dose statins could be reclassified to enable pharmacies to supply them without a prescription, NHS England has announced.

The government should recognise the essential role pharmacies play in communities by repaying their business rates, says the National Pharmacy Association's Raj Patel

A local pharmaceutical committee (LPC) has created a tool for pharmacy owners to navigate the “obscure” finances outlined in the five-year funding contract.

Rowlands’ parent company has opened a new hub-and-spoke dispensing facility, which it hopes will be able to assemble 16 million of the multiple's repeat prescriptions a year.

A pharmacy service to identify undiagnosed CVD is “still in the planning stages”, PSNC has explained following national media coverage of NHS England's plans.

C+D's editor gives his initial take on the rollout of the latest advanced service for England's community pharmacies to deliver

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) Union has seen an increase in Boots employees signing up since it won the right to represent the multiple’s pharmacists.

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has written to the chancellor suggesting that emergency Brexit funding could be used to commission a pharmacist-led medicines service.

With more pharmacies considering reducing their services to survive, legal expert David Reissner sets out the issues to consider

Two pharmacists receiving digital referrals from GPs as part of NHS England’s DMIRS pilot have identified issues that need “tinkering with”.

GPs must trust their receptionists to send patients to pharmacies otherwise the new referral service will fail, says Xrayser

One pre-registration tutor was “caught off guard” by the low pass rate for June’s exam, while another was “surprised” by the result.

Do you understand the benefits and risks associated with vitamin supplementation and the consequences of deficiencies in fat-soluble vitamins?

The 200 Boots branch closures may be the start of more pharmacies shutting as the sector crumbles due to insufficient funding, warns pharmacist Laura Buckley

There will “definitely” be more closures across the sector, Lloydspharmacy’s CEO has told C+D, but he could not confirm if this would include more of the multiple’s branches.

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