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Bhupinder Malhi shares how he set up a successful infant feeding clinic.

Hilary Cunningham, Numark’s information pharmacist, outlines how to develop a care home business.

Things to do and things to know in community pharmacy across the UK.

Local pharmacies can ease the NHS access crisis.

No matter where your customers are going on holiday, your pharmacy provides easy access to advice and medicines to help them stay well while away.  

NICE has recognised three clinical programmes delivered by Leeds-based Interface Clinical Services.

More than three million hours were spent on skin conditions in primary care in 2016 at a cost tothe NHS of £723 million each year, according to a new report4 from the ABPI produced in collaboration with an independent Dermatology Expert Working Group (EWG).

Sid Dajani finds similarities between the complexities of quantum mechanics and the NHS.

It has been an enormous privilege and I have been fortunate enough to be asked to speak at several weddings, forums all over the world, and even three eulogies. Two of these requests came from patients’ families, and at the last one the priest joked he was scared because it sounded like I could do his job! But an old university friend who’d been let down at the last minute gave me a unique invitation that I couldn’t refuse. We met at her local town hall, which was stuffed to the gunwales with people who’d donated prizes. There were dozens of them, and I know because I was the auctioneer.

Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) still have potential to improve health and care despite a bumpy start, says a new report

Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin questions NHS England's plans for sore throat 'test and treat' plans

For most of us, the realms of IT stretch to sitting down with a cuppa, cranking up the computer, deleting every third email on the basis that if it was important they’d send it again, and checking the news on an app. I am no different, although I did chair the Pan- Pharmacy Information Management and Technology Group for six years after arguing how valuable such a committee would be for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. It’s now called the Pharmacy Digital Forum and is no less important. When we started out we were talking about IT being a luxury to help our workload. Now it’s an obligatory tool we can’t do without. Back then we were about doing more with our glorified labelling machines.

Your questions on the NHS flu vaccination service answered by the NPA

Pharmacy Voice calls for profession to be more involved in discussions about its future

The season of flu vaccination is upon us and I have been busy doing my online refresher training, promoting the service, getting the staff trained up, checking and signing PGDs, notifying NHS England and ‘prepping’ the PR. Last year I alone did 800 NHS and private vaccinations and, although we can vaccinate right through until March 2017, the next two months without doubt will be our busiest – so busy that I envisage we will transmogrify from a community pharmacy into a ‘co-immunity pharmacy’!

Community pharmacy delivers more in benefits than it receives in compensation, says PwC

NHS Alliance calls for “more proactive action” towards a new model of community pharmacy-led care

Pharmacists should focus on medicines optimisation and the prevention of ill health, says Society

I write something, press the button and wonder. I wonder who will read it and what response it will have. A few months ago I wrote about the junior doctors’ strike, and by about lunchtime my Facebook page and in-box had melted. Blimey, are there some hacked-off junior doctors out there! If there was a composite letter it would say: “Thrilled to become a doctor, hate what the profession will become”. Add to that, “wish I did something else”, and you’ll get the flavour.

This is the first in a series of articles about why and how independent pharmacists can adapt to the rapidly changing landscape around them.