Features

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...

Features

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...

Features

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...

Self-Care: A solution for an overwhelmed health industry?

Features

PB Staff Writer - June 27, 2023

We must ensure that community pharmacists are recognised as self-care experts so that people turn to them as a first port of call, writes...

AUTOMATION AND TECHNOLOGY: Pushing boundaries, taking risks

Features

PB Staff Writer - April 20, 2023

By James Tibbs Our Totton branch has an incredibly high volume of original pack dispensing, roughly 45,000 items. As we became busier and busier in...

PHARMACY LAW: Rules around security of tenure for commercial tenants set to change

Features

PB Staff Writer - April 20, 2023

Nearly 70 years ago the UK Government recognized the imbalance of power between commercial landlords and tenants and passed the Landlord and Tenant Act...

REALITY CHECK: Choose ‘joy’ as the fuel to transform your future in community pharmacy

Features

PB Staff Writer - April 6, 2023

BY SAJ SHAH We are living longer, we are generally safer, we are smarter and we have caused some of the biggest breakthroughs in health,...

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Personal liability for company directors over late filing of accounts

Features

PB Staff Writer - January 27, 2023

LAW: All companies must send their accounts to Companies House each year. Recent evidence suggests that UK companies are increasingly struggling to file their accounts...

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Changes to VAT penalties regime

Features

PB Staff Writer - January 26, 2023

By Umesh Modi and Vinku Shah The VAT penalties regime has had substantial changes with effect from 01 January 2023 and it is important for...

Diwali message from NPA chair Andrew Lane

Features

PB Staff Writer - October 24, 2022

By Andrew Lane The message of Diwali - a festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness –...

EXCLUSIVE: Raising the bar for patient care

Features

PB Staff Writer - September 28, 2022

Global consumer healthcare company Haleon has launched a new center of excellence for a global leader in consumer health which will bring together world...