Analysis

The NHS Confederation’s Health and Care Women Leaders Network found “a significant rise” in female staff reporting poor health.

Dispensing GPs prescribe in ways that are "consistent with a profit motive," a report finds. 

The first peak of the Covid pandemic last year saw a 300 per cent rise in healthcare workers suffering from mental health problems.

Eighty-eight per cent of candidates sitting the online registration assessment in March achieved a pass, the GPhC announced this morning.

Over 90 per cent of community pharmacists would be eager to take part in an annual Covid-19 booster vaccination programme similar to the flu jab service given the right funding and support, a new survey shows.

People living in socially deprived areas of Scotland are more likely to experience life-threatening complications of type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.

The Professional Standards Authority is unlikely to publish a report into the GPhC's performance “before late in the year".

The GPhC is disproportionately tough on individual registrants compared to pharmacy owners and premises, the PDA has claimed. 

A dramatic reduction in the size of the OTC cough and cold market during the pandemic could become a long-term trend, the PAGB has warned. 

Current data suggests that incidence of cerebral blood clots is around 4 per million first doses of the AZ vaccine.

Pharmacists want to lead on an annual service similar to flu jabs, but have concerns around capacity and policymakers' attitudes, new data shows.

ICSs will also take on community pharmacy commissioning once they are established.

The Government is proposing that health regulators such as the GPhC are given greater powers to set more of their operating procedures.

NSH guidance aimed at reducing prescriptions for OTC medicines saw a drop of just 4.4 per cent for simple analgesia prescriptions in its first year.

The GPhC is coming under increasing pressure to ensure trainees can sit the assessment next month.

A distinct trend towards reduced reporting of patient safety incidents by pharmacies has continued throughout the Covid-19 pandemic says the NPA.

The GPhC is seeking permanent legal powers that will allow it to hold remote fitness to practise hearings and to make certain hearings private.

The group set up to take forward the Wright reforms will hold a virtual event next month to update contractors.

Local authorities get funding to improve access drug treatment services and to expand naloxone and needle and syringe programmes

The GPhC is to hold a consultation on plans to set its registration fees for a multi-year period, rather than reviewing them each year.