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Pharmacy Show 2025: Jhoots' failings risk damaging the sector’s reputation, warns NPA chief

National Pharmacy Association chief executive Henry Gregg said reports of poor performing Jhoots Pharmacy branches could imperil 2026-27 funding talks.

13 Oct 2025

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Pharmacy Show 2025: Newham pharmacies take part in pollution-asthma pilot

The pharmacies worked with six GP practices to improve patients’ understanding of how to minimise the risk of pollution exacerbating asthma.

13 Oct 2025

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Superintendent to go before GPhC for 'repeated weight loss advertising breaches'

Regulator sets out plan for tackling advertising breaches at Pharmacy Show 2025

12 Oct 2025

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BMA leaders urge GPs to 'overwhelm' A&E to ‘sabotage’ Pharmacy First

'Militant' BMA officials urge GPs to ignore Pharmacy First and refer to emergency departments instead

10 Oct 2025

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Flu and Covid on the rise

Flu and Covid-19 cases are increasing across England, according to the latest UKHSA surveillance report.

10 Oct 2025

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Swindon pharmacist’s dental training ‘helped save methadone patient’s life’

A locum pharmacist in his final year of dental school on how his dual training saved a patient's life

10 Oct 2025

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Health minister visits Bedminster Pharmacy’s new site in Bristol

Labour MP Karin Smyth saw Bedminster Pharmacy’s new premises where she met its team and had her annual flu vaccination.

10 Oct 2025

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CPE chief: Pharmacy First letter shows GP authors have ‘total disregard’ for patients

Community Pharmacy England chief executive Janet Morrison said she was "very troubled" by the "combative approach" of some GPs.

10 Oct 2025

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Less high street, more hospital: Rowlands branch shake-up slashes losses by £27m

Rowlands directors 'focused on cost control' as new outpatient pharmacies acquired

09 Oct 2025

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Edinburgh pharmacy offering reward after ‘large quantity’ of Mounjaro stolen

Police issue appeal after Saturday night GLP raid

08 Oct 2025

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Pharmacies hosting foundation year trainees get an extra £800

Funding for training sites rises to £27,295 as NHSE assumes responsibility for foundation year

08 Oct 2025

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Scotland’s negotiator calls for national pharmacy substance use service

Community Pharmacy Scotland urged the Government to introduce a national service and centralised funding.

08 Oct 2025

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Man who stabbed pharmacist during attempted robbery in Belfast pharmacy jailed

Anthony McCrea was given a 12-year sentence after the attempted robbery at a pharmacy on the Antrim Road in March 2022.

08 Oct 2025

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HIV diagnoses fall in 2024 but progress among young people falters

The latest HIV surveillance data for 2024 from the UKHSA shows new diagnoses falling by 4 per cent across the UK from 3,169 in 2023 to 3,043 in 2024.

07 Oct 2025

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Inverness still best-paid city for locums as rates in England plummet

Average hourly rates tumble everywhere except Northern Ireland.

07 Oct 2025

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Just Eat at Pearl Chemist

South London Pearl Chemist Group has announced a tie-up with the online delivery platform Just Eat.

07 Oct 2025

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