Prescriptions

GPs to vote on ‘immediate’ end to pharmacy blood pressure checks

GPs to vote on ‘immediate’ end to pharmacy blood pressure checks

GP leaders have called for pharmacy blood pressure checks to be “terminated with immediate effect” ahead of the BMA’s annual GP conference later this month, where the motion and other community pharmacy issues will be debated.

Sector slams Mail’s guide to ‘game’ Pharmacy First for antibiotics

Sector slams Mail’s guide to ‘game’ Pharmacy First for antibiotics

The pharmacy sector has deemed the tabloid “irresponsible” for publishing an article that tells patients how to answer Pharmacy First service questions so that pharmacists “give you antibiotics”.

Mum landed in hospital after taking Facebook ad Mounjaro

Mum landed in hospital after taking Facebook ad Mounjaro

A mum of three was landed in hospital shortly after taking weight loss jab Mounjaro, having “bought into” an online pharmacy’s ad for the drug on social media, C+D has learned.

Wegovy: Ten deaths linked to weight loss injections, says MHRA

Wegovy: Ten deaths linked to weight loss injections, says MHRA

The medicines watchdog has received reports of some 10 deaths “with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) indicated for weight management” such as Wegovy and Mounjaro, C+D can reveal.

Pharmacists to identify beta blocker patients after packaging ‘mix-up’

Pharmacists to identify beta blocker patients after packaging ‘mix-up’

A batch of beta blocker medicine has been recalled as a “precautionary measure” amid concerns that blister strips of a different medication could be inside the tablet pack, the pharmacy negotiator has announced.

‘Empire of pain’: Drug gang jailed after police seize 1m ‘illicit’ pills

‘Empire of pain’: Drug gang jailed after police seize 1m ‘illicit’ pills

Three members of an international drug gang have been sentenced for their role in the “large scale importation and distribution” of unregulated pharmaceutical drugs from India to the UK after police seized more than one million tablets.

HRT prescription items soar 22% after PPC introduction

HRT prescription items soar 22% after PPC introduction

The number of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescription items has rocketed up 22% in a year amid the introduction of a pre-payment certificate (PPC), new data has revealed.

GP pharmacist warned after prescribing when ‘medically unfit to work’

GP pharmacist warned after prescribing when ‘medically unfit to work’

A GP pharmacist and independent prescriber has been slapped with a warning after providing prescriptions to family and friends while being signed off as “medically unfit to work”.

Epilepsy pills recalled after patient finds ‘metallic particle’ inside

Epilepsy pills recalled after patient finds ‘metallic particle’ inside

A batch of anti-seizure medicine has been recalled as a “precautionary measure” after a patient discovered a small piece of metal inside a tablet, the pharmacy negotiator has announced.

Wegovy: Pharmacists urged to report ‘misuse’ amid 46 hospitalisations

Wegovy: Pharmacists urged to report ‘misuse’ amid 46 hospitalisations

The medicines watchdog has revealed that almost 50 patients have been hospitalised “in association with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs)”.