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, but recent cases show that, in...
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...
