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...
OPINION
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...
OPINION
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...
Exclusive: Time to reset how community pharmacy delivers healthcare in the post-Covid-19 world
By Steve Anderson
COVID-19 has had a huge impact on our lives and will continue to do so for many months to come even as...
Rising to the challenge… when the going gets tougher
Pharmacy experts from the University of Reading set out how community pharmacies have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic and ensure that patients still receive...
OPNION: The time for change is now
By Elsy Gomez Campos
The coronavirus pandemic has put the spotlight back on the socioeconomic disparities affecting our society. The BAME population and the BAME NHS...
EXCLUSIVE – £50m cash injection: how much an average pharmacy can expect on June 1?
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committe has announced that minsters have agreed to inject a further £50m of advance funding into community pharmacies at the...
Broken funding system is incapable of sustaining community pharmacy beyond 2020: ex NPA chair
By Ian Strachan
Cash flow is now terminal, with over 50 per cent of community pharmacies operating in deficit.
Unless there is an immediate injection of...
Exclusive: ‘Pharmacy is a profession made up of superheroes’
By Nigel Swift
What a time to start a new job!
When I made the decision to join Well, I was thinking of a structured timely...
Exclusive – Talking your way out of lockdown
How do you communicate with staff in a crisis like Coronavirus?
Actually there hasn’t been anything “like” Coronavirus in our lifetimes. Jokers used to say...
Celebrating our #pharmacyheroes and NHS will be the legacy of Covid-19
By Dr Nik Kotecha
Having family members who work in the NHS has brought home to me the huge self-sacrifice thousands of healthcare workers are...
FRONTLINE NORTHERN IRELAND: ‘Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?’
By Eoghan O’Brien
When everyone sensed the imminent arrival of a lockdown, the subsequent panic buying and hoarding of medicines during the first two weeks...
FRONTLINE SCOTLAND: How ‘Cadham Campfire’ shapes the day for this pharmacy in Fife
By Bernadette Brown
Health and well-being of the team is the most important aspect of surviving during these very challenging times as this pandemic has...