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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...

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...

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...

 SKINCARE CPD: Don’t underestimate eczema

Pharmacy Academy presents an exclusive educational CPD module for community pharmacy teams to help improve eczema in children … Eczema (atopic dermatitis), which affects up...

TECHNOLOGY: Pharmacists working from home

Tariq Muhammad considers how innovative technology can be used to allow pharmacists to work from home... One evening whilst I was watching TV, my phone...

REALITY CHECK: The uneven playing field of hub and spoke

Louise Laban argues that the government’s latest impact assessment into the ‘hub and spoke’ model of dispensing suggests the cost of a hub is...

OPNION: It’s good to talk!

By Richard Evans Over the past three months I have had the pleasure of representing the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) at the spring conferences of...

EXCLUSIVE: Getting the best from your LPCs & PSNC: How Review Steering Group’s proposals will help

By Aneet Kapoor When I was asked by fellow independent contractors to join the Review Steering Group (RSG) back in late 2020, I said yes,...

TECHNOLOGY: Peer-to-peer dispensing

Tariq Muhammad considers how the 'hub and spoke' legislation could give rise to new innovation… Talk of hub and spoke models has been rumbling on...

VIEWPOINT: Testing times

George Thomas argues that diagnostics offer community pharmacies valuable revenue streams whilst relieving pressure on other parts of primary care… Community pharmacies have never had...

GUEST COLUMN: Analysing hub and spoke dispensing

Pharmacy law expert David Reissner discusses the key risks, assumptions and sensitivities of the hub and spoke dispensing model... Under the Medicines Act 1968, dispensing...

GUEST COLUMN: ‘Community pharmacy needs a booster jab’

Malcolm Harrison gives his take on the potential impact of hub and spoke dispensing on members of the CCA as well as the wider...

RPS: Weathering the squalls of temporary instability?

Former chief executive and registrar of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Jeremy Holmes wonders if the current state of affairs at the...

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