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OPINION

Out of Africa? Or into Africa?

Former chief executive and registrar of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society(RPS) of Great Britain Jeremy Holmes emphasises the need to encourage more foreign direct investment (FDI) in pharmaceutical manufacturing, distribution...

Engaging people with diabetes through community pharmacy-led care

Pharmacists play an integral role in empowering the self-management needs of people with diabetes beyond the traditional role...

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...

E-pharmacy: Tracing its trend

Growing number of internet users leading to the higher adoption of digital technologies will offer unprecedented growth opportunities to e-pharmacy, analysts say... E-pharmacy, a digital...

OPINION: Know how technology can reduce pressure on community pharmacy

Mayank Patel discusses how investing in technology early has allowed him to grow his business and build better relationships with patients... It’s no secret that as...

Temporary Safeguarding Payments – worth knowing about

Oliver Staunton provides an introduction and an update on one of the lesser-known parts of the Drug Tariff… If you mention ‘safeguarding’ to a community...

TECHNOLOGY: Holding onto pharmacists

Tariq Muhammad considers the demand for pharmacists and how community pharmacies can compete… Pharmacist shortages and spiralling locum costs have set the heads spinning of...

VIEWPOINT: It’s already here

Arun Nadarasa takes you on a journey into the metaverse where drones will deliver medicines prescribed by a metapharmacist from a metapharmacy… WAGMI or ‘we are all gonna make it’ is an...

VACCINATION: Pharmacies are at the forefront vaccines programme

Sobha Sharma Kandel shares her experience of running webinars and making videos to help promote flu and Covid vaccination uptake in her local community...

VACCINATION: Pharmacy is ready for new roles

Peter Horrock attributes the success of community pharmacy-led Covid vaccination services to the innovative and ‘can do’ approach seen across the sector… Community pharmacists and...

PSNC APPEAL: Can you help make the case for community pharmacy this week?

By Mike Dent, director of Pharmacy Funding, PSNC As negotiations begin for Year 4 (2022/23) of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF), contractors and their...

‘Show me the light’

Shilpa Shah shares her reflections on the past year and her thoughts or the future of community pharmacy as she ends her service at Kent...

The divided world of pharmacist supervision

Pharmacy law veteran David Reissner calls on the profession to unite and tell the government what it wants before changes are made to legislation...

Current Issue March 2024