The Department of Health has published 66 public health indicators that local authorities should use to assess improvements under the reformed public health service in England.
Serious concerns about the quality of pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs) have been raised in response to the Department of Health’s proposals to change the market entry test for pharmacies in England.
The PDA Union is seeking formal recognition as a trade union that can collectively represent members who work for Alliance Boots.
A £963,000 bonus in shares awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester has been strongly criticised.
Gaviscon Advance Aniseed Suspension, 500ml bottles, PL 00063/0108. Batch number/ expiry: 1. 032076, Exp 01/11/2012 (1800 bottles affected), 2. 032077, Exp 01/11/2012 (2388 bottles affected).
Drug manufacturers are calling for the legal separation of pharmacy wholesaling and dispensing functions, to help stabilise the UK medicine supply chain.
Cetuximab, bevacizumab and panitumumab should not be made available on the NHS in England and Wales for treating metastatic colorectal cancer that has progressed after first-line chemotherapy, according to final guidance.
Nick Clegg has urged the coalition government to go "further and faster" in raising the level at which people start paying income tax to £10,000 a year.
Irregularities around the use of a Tesco Clubcard have led to a pharmacist being suspended from the Register for one month, by order of the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
A pharmacist who touched inappropriately a female patient during a consultation has received a warning as to his conduct from the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
A pharmacist who accepted a police caution for being in possession of cocaine has been warned by the fitness-to-practise committee of the GPhC not to allow himself to be put in such a position again.
Anaphylaxis remains an adverse event that occurs very rarely in children after immunisation, according to prospective surveillance carried out in the UK and Ireland.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are associated with a dose-dependent increase in falls risk among elderly people with dementia, a new study concludes.
Free trade of medicines between EU states should be made illegal in order to protect the UK medicines supply chain, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has proposed.
UK economic activity shrank by 0.2 per cent in the last three months of last year according to official figures.