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Are independents useful idiots for the big chains in Northern Ireland?

Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland’s energies are focused too much on lower profit margins of the multiples, says Terry Maguire.

25 Sep 2024

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Realising the promise of independent prescribing

Finally, after 25 years, it's got momentum but it’s difficult to retain a positive spin with the chaos that's emerging, says Terry Maguire.

28 Aug 2024

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Clarity counts in this world!

The Northern Ireland Health Committee is not a negotiation forum but Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland should have been clearer, says Terry Maguire.

14 May 2024

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Discount blues

Contractors in Northern Ireland are unconvinced a generics and brands discount scheme will distribute money fairly, says Terry Maguire.

24 Apr 2024

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Raising the IT stakes

I’m happy about progress in Northern Ireland but I request that Fujitsu are not commissioned to develop the claims systems, says Terry Maguire.

06 Mar 2024

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Abuse on social media

When patients post rants of industrial grade poisonous venom about pharmacists on social media, it's abuse, says Terry Maguire.

24 Jan 2024

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Delivering the goods – but at what price?

I‘ve noticed an increasing contempt on the part of GPs as a result of our inexhaustible flexibility on medicines delivery services, says Terry Maguire…

13 Dec 2023

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Be honest – were you at the CPNI AGM?

We need less navel gazing and more interest in the work Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland does on our behalf, says Terry Maguire.

03 Oct 2023

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Here’s to our vague adherence service

It appears that for most recipients of MDS trays, there’s no legal or professional obligation to provide anything other than a normal service, says Terry Maguire.

16 Aug 2023

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Shrinking the pharmacy network in Northern Ireland?

A pharmacy contract must mean much more than getting a prescription dispensed. Access to more services must be the focus, says Terry Maguire.

06 Jul 2023

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A worrying state of mind

Community Pharmacy Northern Ireland is creating a state of mind among contractors that is pernicious and self-defeating, says Terry Maguire.

31 May 2023

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Face up to co-designed services

Terry Maguire asks if the SH:24 EHC service's co-design took place in Northern Ireland or London where demographics are very different.

02 May 2023

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I might be going to prison!

The Windsor Framework might have solved some problems in Northern Ireland but it hasn’t sorted FMD, says Terry Maguire.

21 Mar 2023

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CPNI has an unhealthy obsession with adherence

Why did industrial action to increase core funding end with £22 million being funnelled into a new adherence service, asks Terry Maguire.

16 Feb 2023

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Strep A disaster could have been avoided

The Department of Health should commission a test-and-treat service and stop dismissing evidence it works, says Terry Maguire.

17 Jan 2023

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Contractors are in the trenches…again!

A conflict that sparked three judicial reviews in Northern Ireland is demoralising and ongoing, says Terry Maguire.

25 Nov 2022

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