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PDA calls for a minute’s silence for health workers felled by coronavirus

The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) is calling for a minute's silence next week to remember the health workers who have been killed by Covid-19...

Pharmacists ‘are unsung heroes in Covid-19 fight’

By Priyankur Mandav As stocks of hand sanitisers, face masks, thermometers, paracetamol, painkillers and vitamins are depleted from shops, pharmacists across the UK are working...

Indemnity to cover situations ‘technically outside of regulatory standards’, PDA clarifies

Indemnity cover will be extended to include such activities pharmacists have to take up in response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association...

UK begins trial of HIV medicine, steroid as possible COVID-19 treatments

Scientists at Oxford University have started a clinical trial to investigate the effects of an HIV medicine and a steroid drug in UK patients admitted...

LloydsPharmacy introduces new opening hours and social distance policy

LloydsPharmacy has introduced new opening hours and a social distancing policy, effective from Friday (20 March), in response to the rising demand due to...

NHS to suspend ‘certain requirements’ on pharmacies with income protection

NHS England said it will temporarily suspend certain requirements on community pharmacists with a guarantee to protect income. In a letter dated 17 March, Simon...