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The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has attacked the government's proposed one per cent NHS pay rise.

Repaglinide 1mg and 2mg tablets will be out of stock until early May.

NHS BSA is in talks with the Government to protect the Pharmacy Earlier Payment Scheme as finance company Greensill faces collapse. 

The GPhC has said that registration exam candidates in Scotland “should be able” to sit the exam without crossing the border into England.

Anderson warned that 30 to 50 per cent of pharmacies “could close in the next few years".

Community pharmacy’s representative bodies have expressed their disappointment with a new Government budget described as “exasperating".

With a general election in Scotland coming up in May, Commumnity Pharmacy Scotland has launched a manifesto for the next Government.

Pharmacy chain Avicenna has increased the size of its estate from 44 to 101 with the acquisition of Dudley Taylor Pharmacies Ltd. 

Medicspot partnership will help member pharmacies comply with new guidance on supplying test kits, says NPA

PSNC writes to chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of today’s budget announcement to warn him that “many pharmacies” could be forced to close.

AT Medics acquisition makes US-owned Operose largest GP surgery operator in UK.

First dose protection ranged between 57-61 per cent for Pfizer vaccine and between 60-73 per cent for the Oxford-AZ vaccine (ChAdOx1)

A pharmacist who sold addictive prescription drugs on the black market from his mother’s pharmacy was today sentenced to a year in jail.

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 PDA has urged the GPhC not to count the assessment this month as one of students' three attempts to pass.  

The BPSA has set up a support fund for candidates forced to travel for their registration assessment.

Well Pharmacy has said it has completed a deal to buy the Norfolk-based chain Pharma-Z.

The GP referral arm of the consultation service has got off to an “incredibly disappointing” start says PSNC chief Dukes.

The five-year contract for pharmacies in England must be redrawn to give the sector a stronger footing within the NHS, says AIMp chief Hannbeck.

The High Court recently granted a GPhC request to extend a suspension against a pharmacist who wishes remove himself from the register.