EXCLUSIVE: Facing the pandemic challenge together
By Jeremy Main
As the Covid-19 pandemic has swept across the world the vital role of certain sectors that have for years been under appreciated...
EXCLUSIVE: Every prescription counts, London LPC calculates how increase in period of treatment will hurt community pharmacy
By Hemant Patel
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened,” John F Kennedy once famously said -...
EXCLUSIVE: Ploughing through the mists of PPE
By Mahendra Patel
Pharmacists, like all other colleagues involved on the NHS frontline with delivering health and care services against the colossal challenges of Covid-19,...
EXCLUSIVE: What happens when the NHS reboots?
By Mike Hewitson
Right now the NHS is in safe mode. It is only performing core functions and anything that can be delayed or cancelled...
EXCLUSIVE: ‘No single right or wrong answer,’ pharmacy law expert’s tips on ethical questions
By David Reissner
At times of emergency or disaster, ethical and legal issues are thrown into sharp relief in pharmacy as in many other areas....
Poetry in the time of coronavirus; pharmacy contractor pens down his thoughts in verses
We are in a lockdown
So we are in a lockdown
The phone doesn't stop ringing
300 calls plus per day, all wanting
home deliveries, patient requests,
how do...
A mild case of COVID-19 is not like a mild cold, it’s much more severe, says pharmacist who has just had her coronavirus recovery
The last few weeks have indeed been an excruciating experience for my family and I. Thankfully, we have all nearly passed through this agony...
Volunteers delivering medicines is fraught with risks, says senior pharmacy solicitor
When a pharmacy owner has the misfortune to be on the receiving end of a compensation claim because of a dispensing error or some...
VIEWS FROM THE FRONTLINE: My experience with COVID-19 in pharmacy before self-isolation
The last few weeks have by far been the most demanding and daunting in my five years’ career as a community pharmacist.
Sadly, although community...
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