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Boots offers safe spaces for victims of domestic abuse

GPhC and RPS give support to initiative and encourage other pharmacies to offer a safe space.

The Home Office has agreed to offer overseas pre-registration pharmacists a one-year extension to their UK visas.

The vast majority of pharmacists are unable to maintain social distancing from other staff in their workplace, the RPS has warned.

The GPhC should bring forward provisional registration for trainee pharmacists “without delay,” the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has said.

Undergraduates hoping to support pharmacies fighting Covid-19 'should complete scheduled exams first'.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says all pharmacy staff are covered by the provisions of the Assaults on Emergency Workers Act 2018.

A Covid-19 NHS mental health hotline will be open to pharmacists and their teams after successful lobbying by the RPS.

Pharmacy bodies are urging the Government to scrap all prescription charges in England for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The RPS Assembly has said it is cancelling this year's national pharmacy board elections because of Covid-19.

The RPS calls for a zero-tolerance approach to aggressive behaviour towards under-pressure pharmacy staff.

EPB chair Claire Anderson tells Matt Hancock pharmacy teams are going “above and beyond” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pharmacists and pharmacy staff members are to be explicitly named on the Government's list of ‘key workers’.

The RPS has drawn up a series of recommendations to protect pharmacists from the coronavirus pandemic.

RPS marks No Smoking Day issues with call for additional public health funding.

Documents on the sale of the RPS' headquarters in Lambeth seven years ago have raised questions.

Questions around the 2013 sale of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s former London headquarters are raised in P3pharmacy.

The government is planning to offer pharmacists and paramedics a fast-track conversion course to retrain as doctors.

Director and deputy to retire in 2020.

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has received 2,313 complaints regarding comments made about pharmacists on ITV’s This Morning.

NHS England & Improvement has been criticised as having “unrealistic” expectations of pharmacists beginning to work in PCNs.