Pharmacy ‘stunned’ by proposal to increase free prescription age from 60 to 66
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has raised serious concerns about the likely increase in the age for free NHS prescriptions from 60 to 66...
Bestway Medhub donates £2,282 to profession’s charity
Bestway Medhub has donated £2,282 to ‘Pharmacist Support’ to raise awareness among customers about the sector’s leading wellbeing charity.
Pharmacist Support is an independent charity...
Well Pharmacy donates over £22,000 to support environment
Well Pharmacy, the UK’s largest independent community pharmacy chain, has donated over £22,000 to two charities that support environment cause.
The money was raised through...
‘Black and Asian diabetic people in UK less likely to be prescribed statin’
Black and Asian people living in the UK with type 2 diabetes may be less likely to be prescribed potentially lifesaving medicine statin, according...
French firm Sodexo wins £400m contract for more Covid-19 testing centres
French business services company Sodexo has been selected to operate a further 121 fixed and mobile Covid-19 testing centres, making it the UK's largest...
PDA urges Javid to ‘put pharmacists’ knowledge to better use’
The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) has urged the UK’s newly-appointed health secretary Sajid Javid to put pharmacists’ knowledge to better use to ensure proper...
McKesson’s AAH plays key role in vaccination drive
McKesson UK said its wholesale arm AAH has been working closely with NHS England since December to distribute Covid-19 vaccines to pharmacies, doctors’ surgeries,...
LloydsPharmacy extends support for ‘Pharmacy Collect’
Hight Street pharmacy chain, LloydsPharmacy extended its support for the government’s ‘Pharmacy Collect’ service by offering NHS Covid-19 lateral flow devices across its pharmacies...
GPhC marks 10th anniversary of pharmacy technicians becoming a regulated health profession
Marking the 10th anniversary of pharmacy technicians becoming a regulated health profession in Great Britain, the General Pharmaceutical Council today (July 1) sent an email...
JCVI recommends Covid booster jab for most vulnerable
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that Covid-19 booster programme should be offered in two stages from September, starting with...
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