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Lloydspharmacy’s “difficult” decision to charge patients for diabetes screening and blood pressure checks this week won’t come as a surprise to many...
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The 'soothing families' campaign began on May 11 and will continue in bursts until October, manufacturer Teva UK said.
The campaign celebrates how...
Manufacturers Alliance Pharmaceuticals, Focus Pharmaceuticals and Medreich, along with wholesaler Lexon UK, agreed not to compete for the supply of...
The health and beauty giant’s free online NHS repeat prescription service – which has launched via the Boots app and website – will use the expertise...
An initial 27 prices for the month were announced yesterday (May 23).
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Bumetanide
1mg
tablets (28)
£1.85...
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Price
Amiloride
5mg
tablets (28)
£9.49
Betahistine
8mg
tablets (84)
£2.61
Candesartan
8mg
tablets (28)
£2.50...
As of yesterday (May 22), patients are being charged £5 for diabetes screening and £3 to have their blood pressure checked. Customers who pay for one...
I remember clearly when we introduced our diabetes and blood pressure checks in Lloydspharmacy. At the time, I was an area manager and I recall there...
From this CPD module you will learn:
The different types of pain that can occur What the patient pain consultation should include How pain scales...
A level 7 apprenticeship, equivalent to a master’s degree, where pharmacists would train as apprentices on placements hosted by pharmacy companies,...
Sarah Summers asks for a quiet word, so you invite her into the consultation room.
“I’ve been diagnosed with a prolapse,” she starts. “I’ve been...
The branch, on Stephen Street, Hull, is one of 24 stores that have been updated as part of the beauty-focused transformation, Boots UK managing...
The BMA’s GP committee’s clinical and prescribing lead, Dr Andrew Green, called for the blacklist in response to General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC...
Customer anger about the use of plastic bags, issued from its Preston dispensing hub to 380 Boots branches across the country, made national...
Mr Hancock talked about the country’s pharmacies with his “French counterpart”, Agnès Buzyn, “only last week”, he told C+D on Twitter yesterday.
The...
The app – which officially launched on Saturday (May 18) – enables patients registered with a GP in England to order their medication directly from...
The East of England Co-op – which is “owned by over 275,000 members” and provides “stores and services…across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and...
The real-time exemption checking (RTEC) system – which is currently being used in four pharmacies in Manchester, Oldham, Leeds and Cleethorpes –...
According to notes from a workshop held in April, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI...
From this pharmacy CPD module you will learn:
The common symptoms of acne rosacea What causes the condition and triggers symptoms How it can be...
Patients taking a loop diuretic can be considered relevant for a medicines use review (MUR) if they fall into the national target group of patients...
Travel health clinics can boost the income of pharmacies, while supporting patients. But to remain relevant they need to adapt to changes in their...
Any pharmacy owners who have been reading C+D will know by now that the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s (PSNC) negotiations with the...
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has spent the past year “rebuilding constructive relationships” with the Department of...
The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)’s guidance – issued last month – includes the safeguard that a prescriber at an online pharmacy should...
Mr Hancock said he was “very interested to explore what contribution pharmacy can make to the NHS”, CPW chief executive Russell Goodway told C+D...
The first major survey in 10 years by the charity seeks the views of pharmacists nationwide from all sectors, including former pharmacists, MPharm...
The number of prescription checks has “significantly increased” over the past five years – from 750,000 in 2014-15 to 24 million by 2018-19 –...
Boots’ operating profit for the year ending August 31, 2018 was £391 million, a £112m drop from the £503m recorded for the previous 12 months, the...
The Measles Clinical Support Package guides pharmacists through each step of a patient consultation and then determines their eligibility for the...
The C+D Above and Beyond Award – sponsored by Accord – is returning for a second year, and once again gives C+D readers the opportunity to vote for...
NHS England started recruiting in 2018, with 203 pharmacists and technicians employed to work in care homes across England so far, it told C+D last...
The former Conservative MP – who stepped down in February to join the newly-formed Change UK party – used the BBC One programme last night (May 9) to...
When asked whether the cap on the number of paid MURs should be amended, 61% – 68 of the 112 respondents to a poll, which ran on the C+D website from...
MURs may have been introduced in 2005 to boost patients’ medicine compliance, but many pharmacists think that while they offer value to patients,...
From this pharmacy CPD module you will learn about:
The main mechanisms of action that cause this reaction The impact of the disruption of the...
US company McKesson, which owns Lloydspharmacy, referred to “expected further closures of retail pharmacy stores across Europe”, in slides to...
For this podcast, editor James Waldron spoke to Ade Williams, superintendent of the multi-C+D Award winning Bedminster Pharmacy in Bristol, to...
Seema Kennedy was responding to a parliamentary question from Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston Justin Madders on Tuesday (May 7), who said his...
Adjusted operating profit for McKesson’s European pharmaceutical solutions division – which includes Lloydspharmacy – in the first three months of...
The last time I wrote about the serious shortage protocol (SSP), Mr Justice Supperstone had just refused to give not-for-profit organisation the Good...
Richard Corbridge, who officially started in the newly-created role last week, is “charged with reimagining the future of Boots from a customer...
The decision – made at the association's annual general meeting on April 30 – was a result of “numerous social changes”, it explained yesterday (May...
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has received between two and three reports of patient safety incidents resulting from CCG medicines...
Some jokes just write themselves, such as the time parliament was evacuated owing to a sewerage leak in 2015, or any time that Viagra comes up in...
“Given the controversy” surrounding proposals to introduce a five-year apprenticeship scheme, and “that more than 10% of the current profession felt...
In the UK, almost one in eight (13%) general practices dispense medicines. In sparsely populated rural areas, dispensing doctors are sometimes the...
Rumours have swirled around the possibility of NHS England making a renewed push to expand the use of hub-and-spoke dispensing since the start of the...
The Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2019 order – which came into force in February – includes provisions to allow pharmacists to dispense an...
The Boots branches, spread across the UK and Republic of Ireland, began stocking the BioSure kits last Sunday (April 28).
Boots UK chief pharmacist...
“It’s the pharmacist on the phone. There’s a shortage of naproxen, could you suggest an alternative?”
There are few things more likely to wind me up...
Gabapentin and pregabalin continue to be among the most commonly confused medicines in pharmacies, Leyla Hannbeck's revealed in her latest MSO report...
Speaking exclusively to C+D yesterday (April 30), Leyla Hannbeck said: “Dealing with ongoing medicine shortages on a daily basis puts additional...
Research has shown that the phenomenon I refer to as the ‘fear of finding out’ is a major psychological barrier that prevents people from seeking...
From this CPD module you will learn about:
What you should recommend to patients about missed doses Risks associated with taking oral...
Nicotine addiction can be so tough to beat, but have you considered how Niquitin's NRT can play a vital role in helping smokers quit?
Nicotine...
An initial 30 prices for the month were announced on April 16, followed by a further 25 prices on April 18.
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Form
Price
Bumetanide...
All hospitals and GP practices will soon have the fastest fibre optic broadband “to support radical improvements in the range and quality of digital...
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