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Lo’s Pharmacy frees up 4 hrs daily for pharmacists with hub and spoke model
The hub and spoke model of dispensing is a crucial resource to help pharmacies cope with an ever-increasing workload
Just over a year ago, Lo’s Pharmacy Group went live...
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Medicine shortages: UK charities and pharmacists call for supply chain review
‘Unless there is openness and transparency between the government and manufacturers, resolving medicine shortages will remain impossible’
Health charities...
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Collaboration Failures: Shift Focus To Behaviours Over Results
Trevor Gore says collaboration in healthcare, particularly in community pharmacy, is not an option, but a necessity.
I have...
Diet & Nutrition: No better place than pharmacy
Diet And Nutrition : Pharmacists are ideally placed to offer evidence-based advice on diet and nutrition as well as healthy lifestyle. Ellis Nugent shares...
Role of pharmacy in diet and nutrition
Keeley Berry advises pharmacy teams on how they can continue to support customers concerned over their immune health…
As the UK awaits a mass roll-out...
FEATURE: How pharmacists can help diabetics
As well as advice on diet and lifestyle changes, diabetes patients often need help with medication compliance to keep their blood glucose, cholesterol and...
Unravelling the science behind smoking cessation
Behavioural scientist, Dr David Crane, explains how community pharmacy teams can use a combination of behavioural support and pharmacotherapy in their smoking cessation services…
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TECHNOLOGY: Keeping ahead of technology
Tracey Robertson explains how an extensive and imaginative use of technology can help community pharmacy reach its true potential…
Community pharmacy first recognised the value...
TECHNOLOGY: Coping strategies
While news of Covid vaccine rollout is a welcome cause for optimism, Gary Paragpuri of Hub and Spoke Innovations says that we will still...
TECHNOLOGY: Is pharmacy ready for AI?
Tariq Muhammad explains how Artificial Intelligence could ultimately free up the pharmacist from involvement in the dispensary...
Walk into any community pharmacy and you will...
Combatting hypertension in the community
As their clinical roles continue to evolve, we explore how community pharmacists can help with the prevention, detection and management of high blood pressure…...
Treating common ear problems
Claire Campbell advises community pharmacy teams how they can help patients suffering from infection, inflammation and wax build-up of the ear…
Research has shown that...
Wising up on pain management
Farah Ali says for suffers of various pain symptoms community pharmacists are much more than just dispensers of painkillers…
In the earliest weeks of...