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LAW: Balancing act of medicine supply

  Do community pharmacies have to provide medicines in compliance aids, and can they charge for the service? Noel Wardle shares his take… The Equality Act (which...

Pharmacist jailed for diverting £1m of addictive drugs onto black market

Birmingham Crown Court today sentenced a pharmacist to one year imprisonment for selling hundreds of thousands of doses of addictive prescription drugs onto the...

Fluoxetine 40mg capsules back in pharmacy shelves to meet normal demand  

Following the expiry of SSP06 on October 2, there is now sufficient stock of Fluoxetine 40mg capsules to meet the normal demand. Community pharmacies have...

Government announces new community pharmacy referral service to avoid hospital readmission

The government has announced that from July patients discharged from hospitals will be digitally referred to their local pharmacy teams for healthcare support and...

Pharmacy owner’s son jailed for selling PoM to criminal gangs

A pharmacy worker has been sentenced to six years in prison for selling prescription-only medicines (PoM) worth over £20 million to drug dealers. David Ihenagwa,...

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Suppressing pharmacy funding crisis analysis would be ‘outrageous’, warns NPA

The NPA fears the report won’t be published until...

RPS unveils proposed Charter changes to become Royal College

RPS intends to create a Trustee Board to run...

India’s pharma exports expected to cross £280 billion by 2047

India aims to become a top five pharma exporter...

ICBs to oversee commissioning of all vaccination services from April 2026

Commissioning pharmacies to deliver more NHS vaccinations could free...

Pharmacy is under severe strain, time for the government to back those who put patients first

"The new contract in England has to provide the...