GUEST COLUMN: Coping with pressure
By Danielle Hunt
The country as a whole is facing uncertain and challenging times, and for our profession emerging from the second year of the pandemic,...
GUEST COLUMN: Changing landscape of community pharmacy
Shilpa Shah
As we transition in England through yet another NHS organisational change, I ask myself what does this mean for community pharmacy? I would...
GUEST COLUMN: How does ‘pharmacy first’ in England measure up?
By Jeremy Meader
In a recent interview with The Telegraph, health secretary Steve Barclay stated that he has asked his officials within DHSC to look...
GUEST COLUMN: Talk is cheap, money buys houses
Anyone who has studied the finances of an independent pharmacy business knows that money is tight. In many cases, they are perilously close to...
GUEST COLUMN: Delivery fiasco
By David Reissner
In August 2021, Deliveroo announced a partnership with Boots to deliver orders from Boots customers for a range of goods including medicines...
OPINION: ‘Recent leadership actions, activities and proclamations of RPS have left us bewildered’
By Mark Koziol
Many older pharmacists will recall that I used to be an elected member of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of...
OPINION: Rise of rogue e-pharmacies
Rich Quelch discusses a surge of unverified e-commerce pharmacies, their risk to the consumer and an urgent need for better policing of online marketplaces…
The...
VIEWPOINT: Digitisation is not a universal tonic
Community pharmacists’ clinical expertise and knowledge of medicine must be protected in the age of digital health, writes Issa Dasu Patel…
Digital transformation is sweeping...
GUEST COLUMN: Pharmacy and the hub and spoke conundrum
Gareth Jones says NPA is pleased to see the government’s competition watchdog recognise its concerns over potential competition risks from hub and spoke dispensing…
The...
‘Double standards will be dangerous for patients and cannot be acceptable’
By Dr Leyla Hannbeck
The recent announcement that Royal Mail will be partnering with distance selling pharmacy (DSP) giant pharmacy2U highlights how standards of regulatory...
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