Analysis

Google and other search engines need to take more action against websites selling fake medicines, says an IP protection firm.

The employers behind a second pharmacy apprenticeship proposal have identified themselves.

An FOI reveals there has been just one investigation into suspected stockpiling of medicines by pharmacies since January.

Prescribing by pharmacist independent prescribers rose 55 per cent between 2017-18 and 2018-19.

Pharmacies can expect an announcement on national roll-out of EPS 4 “in the not too distant future”, NHS Digital said.

The question of whether the new settlement is a good deal or a bad one is “irrelevant,” the panel said.

Community pharmacists must resist the urge to compete with one another and collaborate, the Pharmacy Show heard.

Guidance to help LPCS and pharmacy contractors engage with primary care networks is being issued today.

NHSE wants as many contractors as possible signed up to the service by October 29.

“It is to us as a sector” to discuss issues like consolidation and the Pharmacy Access Scheme, he argued.

The GPhC received 16 whistleblowing disclosures between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019, a report reveals.

The NAWP – which had announced plans to dissolve – is to continue as part of the PDA from the beginning of next year.

Nearly 400 community pharmacists in Northern Ireland have left the profession in the last two years according to a survey.

Community pharmacies are more likely to fail a GPhC inspection but also account for all pharmacies rated excellent.

The majority of respondents to a GPhC survey said they favour integrated standards for pharmacists’ education and training.

A mapping tool to help pharmacies identify which primary care network they should work with is in development.

Sid Dajani says his attempt to secure a judicial review of the way the RPS removed him from the EPB has failed.    

The first details have been released about the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.

Less than half of GP pharmacists in England have had access to the CPPE’s ‘clinical pharmacist’ qualification, the PDA said.

Pharmacist Support is receiving more complex, distressing calls from pharmacists with mental health problems.