OPINION
Children’s dental health in crisis: considering the role of prevention and pharmacy
In the face of an ever-growing crisis in children’s dental health crisis, Bas Vorsteveld considers how pharmacists’ preventative...
OPINION
BIG PICTURE: Striving for sustainability
BY NEESHE WILLIAMS
Despite living in an ever-changing world amid complex geopolitical and economic shifts globally, the importance of...
News
Delivery Plan is a small step in the right direction – but community pharmacy needs a giant leap
By Malcolm Harrison
The Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care was undeniably a vote of confidence in...
Features
Self-Care: A solution for an overwhelmed health industry?
We must ensure that community pharmacists are recognised as self-care experts so that people turn to them as...
OPINION
TECHNOLOGY: Why invest in automation?
 By Cyrus Hodivala
Community pharmacies are located within the very hotspots of peoples’ communities, yet a staggering 720 individual...
Features
AUTOMATION AND TECHNOLOGY: Pushing boundaries, taking risks
By James Tibbs
Our Totton branch has an incredibly high volume of original pack dispensing, roughly 45,000 items. As...
News
Workforce crisis: Why it’s time for Steve Barclay and the NHSE to stop ignoring community pharmacy
By Stephen Thomas
Those of us who work in community pharmacy know there is a workforce crisis created in...
News
BIG PICTURE: Fixing the medicines shortage crisis
From over-the-counter flu tablets to crucial antibiotics and antidepressants, medicines are running scarce in UK pharmacies this year,...
News
EXCLUSIVE: Will England follow in Scotland’s footsteps and embrace a ‘Pharmacy First’ strategy?
Recently, the English Health Secretary has talked about introducing a 'Pharmacy First' model similar to that which exists...
OPINION
WINDSOR FRAMEWORK: A new way forward?
By Regina Dawkins
Northern Ireland  will see changes in the regulatory landscape following the issuance of the Windsor Framework on...
News
EXCLUSIVE: Why pharmacy needs collective leadership
By Professor Mahendra PatelÂ
As a member of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership, and deputy chair of the...
News
OPINION: How risky is the world of online pharmacy?
Online pharmacies have to operate from bricks & mortar premises that are registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council,...
OPINION: Pharmacists aren’t ‘GPs on the cheap’
By Stephen Thomas
It is surprising and disappointing to hear that the Royal College of General Practice chair Professor Kamila Hawthorne recently said that ‘pharmacists...
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Personal liability for company directors over late filing of accounts
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...
EXCLUSIVE: Preserving community pharmacy within the digital health revolution
By Issa Dasu-Patel
Growing up with a family that worked in pharmacy, our dinner time conversation was not like that of other families. Ours would centre...
Technology and big data to drive innovation in the pharmaceutical industry in 2023
As we take look back over the past year and reflect on what we have achieved, it’s also important that we look ahead to...
OPINION: ‘Community pharmacies in Northern Ireland are facing a perfect storm of under-funding’
By Jeremy Meader
As the largest pharmacy wholesaler in Northern Ireland, we understandably take a keen interest in the financial stability of the customers we...
Diwali message from NPA chair Andrew Lane
By Andrew Lane
The message of Diwali - a festival of new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness –...
Phoenix MD urges government to act now to reverse decline of community pharmacy in England
A winter NHS crisis is inevitable unless the government acts now to reverse the worrying decline in community pharmacies. Years of government underfunding could...
‘Our vision for the future of pharmacy professional leadership’
By Paul Bennett
Today I’m proud to share with you the statement we submitted to the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership in which we...
‘Community pharmacy finances need an open-heart surgery not a couple of paracetamol tablets’
By Jeremy Meader
The English health secretary has fumbled the opportunity to prevent a crisis in the NHS this winter. She either does not understand...
Raj Aggarwal: My recollections of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
By Raj Aggarwal
It was my great privilege be appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to serve as her representative in South Glamorgan...