I also read comments that CPE does not appreciate this critical position, and I fundamentally refute that. Knowing the colleagues, both elected and employed, at CPE as I do, this is far from the case.

Paydens Pharmacy has announced the rollout of a private prescribing service that allows patients to access same-day care “without needing to see their GP” for £15 per consultation.

The two pharmacy bodies have urged NHS England (NHSE) to “release immediately” its “long-awaited” economic analysis of community pharmacy, stressing that their “collective voice must be heard”.

The health secretary has deemed Boots weight loss safeguards “totally unacceptable” after a new Dispatches documentary found that the pharmacy provided a 16-year-old with Wegovy against its own policy ...

Community pharmacy is risk adverse, considered, and dare I say it, conservative. But, when it comes to the survival of pharmacy, we can’t afford to let the fear of change – or those resistant to it - ...

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GPs must reinstall GP connect, which allows pharmacies to send routine consultation information to their patients’ GP practices, as part of their £889m-boosted contract, NHS England (NHSE) has ...

Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has told pharmacy owners to check their orders after receiving reports of “losses incurred” by contractors who unintentionally dispensed disallowed items. Kate Bowie ...

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) is set to bat for pharmacy staff to be included in NHS sick leave policy, after four workers came down with whooping cough when a colleague returned to work ...

A group of 45 cross-party MPs have signed a letter to Wes Streeting calling for “an urgent review into ongoing medication shortages”, saying that if action is not taken, the crisis will “worsen”.

A fitness-to-practice (FtP) committee has suspended a pharmacist for one month after he called a patient a “nutter” during a phone call with them and later refused to apologise.

Sadik Al-Hassan, the pharmacy lifer turned Labour MP, is sat in Westminster to talk funding, why Janet Morrison is doing an 'amazing job', online regs, and what pharmacy really wants from the future..