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Currys chief Alex Baldock to head up Boots from the autumn

Baldock to take over from Anthony Hemmerdinger in leadership shake-up

14 May 2026

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Mind the Gap

Why letting go of the dispensary might be the safest move you make this year, says Trevor Gore.

13 May 2026

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Profit for sanity, turnover for vanity

Online pharmacies often come up with business ideas that are appealing to them but not to the public, says Peter Kelly.

06 May 2026

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Unlocking the potential of prescribing

By launching a pharmacy warfarin clinic, prescriber Kiran Raja is expanding access to care.

06 May 2026

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Pharmacists are powerful health influencers

In healthcare, we talk about influencers. But pharmacists provide personal recommendations grounded in human interaction, says Aden Kelly.

24 Apr 2026

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Former Boots pharmacist who stole codeine has suspension extended by six months

Sam Haswell failed to tell the GPhC about a police caution from Northumbria Police for theft by employee within seven days.

23 Apr 2026

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Pharmacy2U announces ‘lead sponsorship’ of ITV daytime show

DSP to be lead sponsor of Loose Women for a year from April 27

23 Apr 2026

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‘UK-based pharmacist’ fights extradition to India over alleged arsenic killing

Ajith Kumar Mupparapu, 45, allegedly arranged for chilli powder and salt laced with arsenic to be sent to Sirisha Muttavarapu’s family.

22 Apr 2026

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Pharmacist who issued illegitimate fit-to-fly Covid certificates allowed to work again

Sunil Kumar Lakhani must get the GPhC to approve a registered pharmacist as his workplace supervisor for six months.

20 Apr 2026

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Convicted pharmacy technician who took cocaine struck off

Tom Hennebry was convicted at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in August 2023 of possessing a controlled class A drug.

16 Apr 2026

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‘Safeguarding pharmacists’: PDA takes up main objective of now-defunct RPS

PDA makes announcement in the wake of Royal College launch.

16 Apr 2026

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Pharmacist who failed to report driving convictions to GPhC suspended for six weeks

Edwin Joseph Nally, who was convicted in 2024 and 2025, also failed to inform the GPhC about multiple driving convictions in 2013.

13 Apr 2026

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Prescribers’ awareness of propranolol risk must improve, coroner warns

Examining the death of a man in July 2020, the coroner for London Inner South said there is “no specific antidote” to an overdose of the drug.

09 Apr 2026

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Building a pharmacy team fit for the future

We must create clearer and more practical pathways for pharmacists to develop prescribing capability, says Numark chairman Harry McQuillan.

08 Apr 2026

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RPS appoints director of pharmacy ahead of transition to Royal College

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said Justine Scanlan will "lead on the new royal college’s ambitions" when she starts the job in June.

07 Apr 2026

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Stop Trumpeting on about paracetamol!

Why was Donald Trump so fixated on paracetamol in pregnancy, asks Terry Maguire?

07 Apr 2026

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