PM Johnson to urge Britons to go back to working from home – The Telegraph
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce later today (Sept 22) new restrictions including early pub closure and a return to working from home, The Telegraph...
UK could hit 50K Covid cases per day by mid October if rise continues unabated, senior medics say
The United Kingdom will face an exponentially growing death rate from Covid-19 within weeks unless government moves urgently to halt a rapidly spreading second...
RPS and RCGP urge collaboration on flu jabs
Two national bodies have urged pharmacists and general practitioners to work together to maximise the number of people who receive a flu jab this...
UK is at Covid-19 tipping point: Matt Hancock
The United Kingdom is at a tipping point on Covid-19, health secretary Matt Hancock said on Sunday (Sept 20), warning that a second national...
European Medicines Agency backs dexamethasone as Covid-19 treatment
Europe's healthcare regulator has endorsed using dexamethasone to treat Covid-19 patients with breathing difficulties, paving the way for the steroid to become the region's...
Cloral betaine 707mg tablets to remain out of stock until November
Cloral betaine 707mg tablets are out of stock and are expected to return to the pharmacy shelves in November, the product manufacturer Marlborough Pharmaceuticals...
Matt Hancock urged to intervene in the proposed withdrawal of bipolar drug
Pharmacists, GPs, psychiatrists and patients have urged health secretary Matt Hancock to stop withdrawing a brand of lithium - Priadel.
Hancock has been urged to...
Pharmacy students at John Moores to use Better’s e-prescribing solution for patient safety
Liverpool John Moores University will use Better’s OPENeP electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution to teach its pharmacy students about modern prescribing practices.
The university...
Supply disruption for esomeprazole 40mg
Esomeprazole 40mg iv powder for solution is expected to face supply disruption following limited supply and increased demand.
Last month, the Department of Health and...
Flu vaccination drive launched for frontline health workers
The frontline health and social care workers, including community pharmacists, have been asked to get their annual flu jab immediately as the first vaccine...
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