Lockdown in England could be extended, senior cabinet minister warns
The one-month lockdown for England could be extended as the UK struggles to contain a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, a senior cabinet...
NPA launches Ask Your Pharmacist week 2020
The National Pharmacy Association's (NPA) annual Ask Your Pharmacist week gets underway today (Nov 1).
The initiative organised by the pharmacy body along with the...
MHRA starts accelerated review for AstraZeneca’s potential Covid-19 vaccine
AstraZeneca Plc said on Sunday (Nov 1) the UK's health regulator had started an accelerated review of its potential coronavirus vaccine.
“We confirm the MHRA’s...
UK flu vaccination supply protected with new restrictions on exports, says DH
In response to a global spike in demand, the government has announced restrictions on the export of supplies of flu vaccines to protect supplies...
‘Pharmacy is at the heart of our priorities’
Sanofi’s UK head Hugo Fry speaks exclusively to Pharmacy Business on how community pharmacy needs to plug into the next big innovations around a...
Covid-19 cases in England jump to 51,900 per day, latest ONS stats reveal
New Covid-19 cases in England increased by around 51,900 each day last week, up nearly 50 per cent on the week before, an official...
A tenth of England’s population could be tested for Covid-19 every week: Guardian
Up to 10 per cent of England’s population could be tested for Covid-19 every week after NHS Test and Trace asked local health chiefs...
Exclusive: ‘Racism is real and still occurring’
A community pharmacist narrates her ordeal of having to deal with a patient who questioned her racial identity, which she wears 'as royalty'... Â
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Pharmacist support vital to help smokers stub it out for good, new study suggests
While a tenth of Brits have started smoking or re-started smoking because of the pandemic, a fifth of quitters rely on their local pharmacists...
UK vaccine chief says impact of early Covid-19 jabs may be limited
The woman in charge of procuring possible Covid-19 treatments for Britain said a fully effective vaccine might never be developed, and that any early...
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