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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...

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...

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...

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...

TECHNOLOGY: Why invest in automation?

 By Cyrus Hodivala Community pharmacies are located within the very hotspots of peoples’ communities, yet a staggering 720 individual...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

EXCLUSIVE: Why pharmacy needs collective leadership

By Professor Mahendra Patel  As a member of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership, and deputy chair of the...

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...