close

Log in

Access to premium content is restricted to healthcare professionals / registered members. Login with your email address to continue.

Forgot Your Password?

Don't have an account? Sign up

This site is intended for Healthcare Professionals only

Public health

Discover our public health training courses that help pharmacists better understand modules in public health. Track training progress online with Pharmacy Magazine.

Agreement 1280.jpg
Public health

Aspire completes acquisition of Cenoté Pharma Ltd

Cenoté Pharma Ltd manufactures medicines that treat rare metabolic disorders.

11 Mar 2024 , 1 Min Article

anna-firth-1280
Public health

Tory MP urges Leadsom to help pharmacist open dental practice in Southend

Anna Firth is supporting Mohamed Fayyaz Haji, who runs Belfairs Pharmacy in Leigh-on-Sea, to start a dental service.

11 Mar 2024 , 1 Min Article

Superdrug 1280.jpeg
Public health

Superdrug starts delivering Mounjaro weight loss drug to patients’ homes

The treatment was only available at a health clinic or pharmacy because it needs to be stored between two and eight degrees Celsius.

08 Mar 2024 , 1 Min Article

pharmacist-stressed-new-1280
Public health

Pharmacists put their own money in to deal with ‘crisis’ in Northern Ireland

Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland board member David McCrea said pharmacists are struggling to pay their wholesale bills.

08 Mar 2024 , 1 Min Article

Jeremy Hunt 1280.jpg
Public health

Hunt’s budget ‘brings no obvious good news for pharmacies’, says CPE chief

CPE chief executive Janet Morrison said the chancellor's measures “will not provide the silver bullet pharmacies desperately need."

07 Mar 2024 , 1 Min Article

harry-mcquillan-1280
Public health

Numark chairman: Why has NHSE failed to sanction DSPs that break regulations?

Harry McQuillan said distance-selling pharmacies have become “a controversial issue” because Pharmacy First allows remote consultations.

04 Mar 2024 , 1 Min Article

Steve Brine 1280.jpg
Public health

Sigma conference: Inquiry is considering generic substitution to solve shortages

Steve Brine said his committee may recommend allowing pharmacists to provide another version of a medicine that is unavailable on prescription.

26 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

Nick Kaye 1280.jpg
Public health

Pharmacy First … step to bigger things

I would love to see Pharmacy First become the first stage to a two-pharmacist model, says National Pharmacy Association chair Nick Kaye.

21 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

Pharmacy chat 1280.jpg
Public health

CPE: GPs’ criticism of Pharmacy First is “disappointing”

Community Pharmacy England said “isolated incidents” must be “handled locally without fuelling further media coverage.”

21 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

patient-on-phone-1280
Public health

Prescription ordering service in Coventry to close next month

Coventry and Warwickshire integrated care board deciding to decommission the service having concluded it lacked value for money.

21 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

pharmacy-first-support-1280
Public health

CCA: Most members provided at least one Pharmacy First consultation in opening week

The CCA said data was collected following "a blackbox exercise with members via PharmOutcomes."

20 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

rps-building-1280
Public health

Supervision consultation: Patient access to pharmacist must be consistent, says RPS

The RPS said it supports legislative change but laid out a series of “topics that need to be considered and clarified."

20 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

Neil 1280.jpg
Public health

GP did pharmacists’ bidding over Pharmacy First

Wouldn’t it be great if general practice campaigned on behalf of poorly funded pharmacies, says ICP editor Neil Trainis.

20 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

Malcolm Harrison 1280.jpg
Public health

CCA: Pharmacy First feedback has been ‘positive’ despite GPs’ grumbles

CCA chief Malcolm Harrison was reacting to a story in Pulse last week that “a number of GPs” had aired concerns.

19 Feb 2024 , 1 Min Article

PrEP 1280.jpg
Public health

Government publishes plan to make PrEP more widely available

The HIV roadmap makes five proposals including funding sexual health services and PrEP medicines.

16 Feb 2024 , 2 Min Article

weston-super-mare-1280
Public health

People on deprived estate will die if it has no pharmacy, warns councillor

Jeremy Blatchford told North Somerset Council the closure of a Boots branch in Weston-super-Mare will leave it without a pharmacy.

16 Feb 2024 , 3 Min Article

Change privacy settings