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From this pharmacy CPD module on dementia you will learn about:
Who is affected by dementia What changes occur in the brain to lead to the symptoms...
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Sadly, we’ve seen a number of pharmacy doors close recently, in some cases permanently. In others, we’ve seen investors deciding to try and transform...
Salim Jetha made the comments as contractors face an additional 17p-per-item price drop across all category M items for July.
Contractors have “...
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 24 complaints from the public and one from the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) in relation to...
Following the publication of C+D’s interview with Nitin Sodha earlier this month – in which the NPA chair raised concerns about pharmacies “picking...
People will “continue to want the classic community pharmacy” offering, Sir Chris Wormald told the Public Accounts Committee – the parliamentary...
You have serious concerns about a pre-registration trainee who works in your pharmacy. He is disorganised, and your system of checks has revealed...
Pharmacy owners in England are currently facing a 17p-per-item price drop across all category M items for July. It comes on top of the ongoing...
Over the weekend I read the C+D article about the petition protesting the “unsuitable” June pre-registration exam, which apparently has received more...
A National Audit Office (NAO) report into last year’s “unexpected increase” in generics prices – published last month (June 8) – referred to...
The petition – launched on Wednesday (July 11) by a pre-reg trainee who wishes to remain anonymous – claims that pharmacy students are “being set up...
“We need to be disruptive if we want to change things.”
This was the challenge set at the very beginning of a recent seminar to discuss leadership...
A National Pharmacy Association (NPA) report published last week (July 3) cited the “enormous potential” of a partnership between a GP practice and...
From this pharmacy CPD module on lower back pain and sciatica you will learn about:
What conditions can cause lower back pain and when patients...
Last week, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) announced pharmacy owners in England will face an additional 17p-per-item price...
Representatives from pharmacy, the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) and NHS England were called in front of the Public Accounts Committee –...
Guidance published by NHS England in March advises GPs to “curb prescribing” of OTC treatments for certain conditions. Instead, it wants GPs to...
A total of 2,333 concerns were reported to the GPhC between March 2017 and March 2018, an increase of 444 – or 23.5% – compared to the same period in...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued a recall yesterday (July 10) of all batches of valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide...
Suffolk LPC has been in contact with Mr Hancock – who was appointed secretary of state for health and social care on Monday (July 9) – “on several...
For nearly five years, Simon Dukes was chief executive of Cifas, the UK’s fraud prevention service, where he oversaw complex investigations into...
Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle yesterday (July 9) means that Jeremy Hunt has left the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) after...
Mr Hancock – who was appointed secretary of state for health and social care last night (July 9) – has consistently voted to reform the NHS to allow...
Mr Hunt is leaving the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) to become foreign secretary, replacing Boris Johnson, who resigned this afternoon in...
The branch on Stonehenge Walk, Amesbury, closed on Friday (July 6) as a “precautionary measure at the request of the police, as part of their...
Superdrug posted profits of £72.8 million for 2017 – an 8.2% increase on the previous year, the group said in its financial report published last...
I was reading the NHS Principles this week and, as you’d expect, they are full of words like ‘respect’, ‘dignity’ and ‘compassion’. There's also “...
Nitin Sodha’s appointment as National Pharmacy Association (NPA) chair in April was somewhat overshadowed by board member Mike Hewitson’s resignation...
Dorset contractor Mike Hewitson resigned from the NPA board in April in protest over the appointment of Nitin Sodha – who is managing director of...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued a recall yesterday (July 5) for all batches of valsartan-containing medicines...
Mckesson Europe – formerly Celesio AG – announced that its overall earnings before interest and taxes for April 2017 to March 2018 were €126.6...
From this pharmacy CPD module on HIV treatments you will learn:
The range of treatment strategies and classes of antiretroviral therapy available...
Sharon, one of your technicians, comes in for her evening shift. She’s normally very cheerful and chatty, but today she is almost silent.
“...
Haroon ‘Harry’ Mahmood (pictured below), relief manager at a Well branch in Darlaston, West Midlands was voted by C+D readers as the winner of the...
The ‘save your local community pharmacy’ petition – launched by CPNI in May – has been signed by 70,500 patients and customers in person and...
Fylde and Wyre clinical commissioning group (CCG) announced last month (June 7) that it would stop its ‘Pharmacy+’ minor ailments service on July 1,...
I had my fair share of gripes when I was employed full time in a pharmacy. They are, no doubt, faced by many of you: a lack of staff, demands to...
The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group made the comments in its contributions submitted to Professor Sir Norman Williams’ review of gross...
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...
The case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba shook the medical profession, and the outcome of a review of the case has implications for the whole of healthcare,...
Ninety-one per cent of the 3,273 respondents across England, Scotland and Wales said they would like to see pharmacies on their ideal high street, in...
It’s becoming a strange summer, with unremittingly sunny weather and uncharacteristic English sporting success. But of course some things never...
The “approximate” 17p-per-item reduction across all category M items from July reflects a reduction in manufacturers’ sales prices from January to...
This announcement is the fourth for the month, following 13 prices on June 15, 14 announced on June 20 and another 14 announced two days later....
Achieving “gender equality” at the RPS by 2020 will be “a key strategic goal”, according to a draft charter – which the organisation will consult on...
Ms May said she recognises “the value of community pharmacies”, when asked by Ian Paisley – Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim – in...
The delivery giant announced yesterday (June 28) that it had agreed to acquire PillPack, a US online pharmacy business licensed to deliver pre-sorted...
The team received the trophy at the Association for Online Publishing (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards in London last night (June 27).
Explaining...
The multiple’s parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance saw a 1.7% drop in pharmacy sales in its retail pharmacy international division – which...
In January, Steve Brine commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to investigate why the prescribing of “addictive medicines” has risen by 3% over the...
From this pharmacy CPD module on managing patient stress you will learn about:
the definition of stress and associated disorders some of the signs...
In April, with the subject of equal pay and gender equality high on the national agenda, C+D exclusively revealed that there is an equal pay gap – in...
Simon Dukes – who joined the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) as chief executive last month – told C+D the organisation is “ready...
Prime Minister Theresa May announced last week (June 18) that the budget for NHS England will increase by £20.5bn over the next five years.
However...
Approximately 3,200 staff received their payment “towards the end of the day” yesterday (June 25) instead of “in the early hours of the morning”, as...
In proposed updates to its guidance for distance-selling pharmacies, published today (June 26), the regulator listed four medicines categories (see...
Your pre-reg has their GPhC registration exam this week, so you decide to give them two calculation questions to complete. After checking their...
C+D reported in January that the independent group had bought three Lloydspharmacies in Dudley – part of the 190 “commercially unviable” branches...
The organisation is “in the process of going to our members and trying to gauge what they feel” about supervising POM supply, the association’s...
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