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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...
JOINT CARE: Managing soft tissue injuries
Pam King gives her take on how pharmacists can help their patients to successfully manage musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries with timely advice on controlled...
PAIN MANAGEMENT: Managing pain in older people
Pain Management : Lars-Åke Söderlund outlines non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches which are currently being used to treat chronic pain…
Pharmacists are a vital member of...
GASTRO: Improving your patients’ gut health
Joshua Edwards shares five practical tips for pharmacy teams to support patients who have problems with their digestive system or gut health...
Gut microbiome is...
TECHNOLOGY: Leadership in pharmacy
By Tariq Muhammad
What skills does a pharmacist need these days? You’d think it would be sufficient to have a good understanding of pharmacy and...
FINANCE: Ways to extract cash out of your business
Umesh Modi and Vinku Shah advise contractors how they can take advantage of the various strategies that can be employed to extract cash out...
LAW: What does the collapse of Testerworld mean for community pharmacies?
Melania Constable and Jessica Williams explain what the collapse of the three trading entities in the Converse Pharma Group could mean for the entire...
TECHNOLOGY: Fit for the future
Tariq Muhammad considers how layouts are a key to modernisation and why pharmacies need a digital and physical harmony…
An increasingly common question I get...
VMS: Preventing 5 nutrient deficiencies in your community
Josh Edwards gives his expert advice on how community pharmacy teams can help prevent five of the most common nutrient deficiencies among their patients…
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VMS: Dietary supplementation is here to stay
Andy Thomas discusses why nutritional supplements – which are fast becoming the consumer’s first choice for ‘drug free’ treatment – should be recommended to...
EYE HEALTH: Dealing with dry eyes
Optometrist Francesca Marchetti writes how pharmacy teams can help educate patients on what dry eye (dry eyes) is, what symptoms to look out for...