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Demand for private health cover surge amid NHS waiting list crisis

The UK health cover market was valued at £6.7 billion in 2022, marking a £385 million increase from the previous year Challenges in accessing the NHS waiting list are pushing...

Community Mental Health survey reveals only 39% felt supported by NHS mental health services

According to the community mental health survey, 42 per cent felt unsupported during critical waiting periods The NHS Long...

Over 50% of pharmacists with disabilities face workplace discrimination

‘Employers should create an environment where pharmacists with disabilities can work safely and without fear of discrimination’ The Pharmacists'...

AAH implements plans to keep its pledge to go carbon neutral by 2030

McKesson UK, parent company of AAH Pharmaceuticals, has implemented a number of initiatives to keep its pledge to 'support and protect the planet' and...

Mark Bather quits as Rowlands MD to spend time with family

In order to be with his family and embark on an extensive cycling journey of Europe, Mark Bather, managing director at Rowlands Pharmacy, has...

Well appoints pharmacist as operations director; Nigel Swift moves to Phoenix to assist group’s CEO

Well Pharmacy has announced the appointment of Louis Purchase as operations director. He replaces Nigel Swift who is leaving the company to join Phoenix as the...

We are a trusted partner of community pharmacy, says boss of Thornton&Ross

  In an exclusive interview with Pharmacy Business, chief executive Roger Scarlett-Smith says agility and entrepreneurship are the unique selling propositions of Thornton & Ross....

CPNI asks doctors to collaborate with pharmacies to cut mounting pressure

Amidst growing pressure on primary care and GPs, the pharmacy body in Northern Ireland urged the department of health to take a holistic view...

‘Pharmacies can help ease ‘patient tsunami’ at GPs’

Simon Dukes says the NHS should look to community pharmacies to help take pandemic-induced workload pressure off the GPs who have warned of being...

Baby with deadly spine condition gets world’s costliest gene therapy

A five-month old baby has become the first patient to receive a potentially life-saving drug on the NHS that can prevent paralysis and prolong...

J&J and WHO extend worldwide support for smoking cessation

On ‘World No Tobacco Day’ (May 31), Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health and the WHO under the Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco marked the...

Covid-19 vaccination prevents 39,700 hospitalisations and 13,200 deaths: PHE

Public Health England estimates that the coronavirus vaccination programme has prevented about 39,700 hospitalisations and 13,200 in people aged 60 years or older up...

Well’s ‘Message of Hope’ reaches one million Covid-19 hit patients  

A campaign to send one million messages of hope to those impacted by loneliness and isolation made worse by the pandemic has reached its...

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