This site is intended for Healthcare Professionals only.

Search results - OTC MEDICINES

If you're not happy with the results, please try again.

Supermarket medicine substitutions could cause serious risk to patients, warns RPS

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has expressed concern that substitutions of medicines as part of supermarket home delivery practices are putting customers at risk. In...

FEATURE: Helping beat the winter blues

As pharmacy teams brace themselves for a second wave of Covid-19 and a season of cold and flu, superintendent pharmacist Sobha Sharma Kandel offers...

BIG INTERVIEW: Pharmacists are the ultimate decision makers for our business, says Rosemont CEO

In a candid interview, Howard Taylor tells Priyankur Mandav how input from pharmacists has helped the liquids manufacturer bring a range of products to...

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...

No reliable evidence of link between ibuprofen and coronavirus, says government advisory body

The government's medicines advisory body has determined that there is currently insufficient evidence to establish a link between the use of ibuprofen and coronavirus. The...

Latest Articles

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...