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WEB6 days ago · Pharmacists after hours podcast series. Chemist + Druggist pharmacy podcast · Pharmacists After Hours. Follow C+D's podcasts by searching “Chemist+Druggist podcast” on your preferred app or on Soundcloud. Chemist+Druggist is a multimedia publisher that provides award-winning pharmacy news, views and CPD content to those …
Exclusive: Pharmacy Minister Stephen Kinnock: 'I want to unlock …
WEB5 days ago · Stephen Kinnock is minister of state for care, encompassing pharmacy minister, at the Department of Health and Social Care. I know you are ambitious for change, and very keen to make better use of your skills, to better your communities. You have shown time and again how you can deliver, and we are determined to provide the …
Promised hub-and-spoke legislation delayed indefinitely
WEBOct 1, 2024 · The CCA said that the delays to the legislative change are “disappointing”. Changes to the legal status of hub-and-spoke arrangements have been delayed indefinitely, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) revealed on Friday (September 27). The previous government announced in May that two models of hub-and-spoke dispensing between …
BREAKING: Boots and PDA agree 4% pharmacist uplift in 2024 pay …
WEBOct 3, 2024 · Boots and the Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) have agreed a 4% pay rise for eligible pharmacists working at the UK’s largest multiple under 2024 pay talks effective from November 1, the trade union announced today (October 3). The PDA also announced that qualified pharmacists who have worked at Boots for more than ten years …
Pharmacist original pack dispensing permitted from January
WEBSep 6, 2024 · Pharmacists in England will be permitted to supply medication different from the prescribed quantity within a 10% margin to keep it in its original packaging from January, thanks to regulatory amendments. Regulatory amendments to permit original pack dispensing from the start of 2025 have been signed by pharmacy minister Stephen …
‘Stop supplying immediately’: Pfizer recalls anaemia drug over …
WEBOct 1, 2024 · Healthcare professionals have been urged to stop supplying Oxbryta “immediately” after new data revealed “an unfavourable imbalance” of “fatal events” and “acute painful crises” in patients on the drug. “Pfizer Limited is recalling all distributed batches of Oxbryta 500 mg tablets ...
UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched …
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · Pharmacies can now sign up to offer the UK’s “first” private COVID-19 vaccination service as of today, Pharmadoctor revealed to C+D today (February 1). The pharmacy service provider said that COVID-19 vaccination stock will be available to its more than 8,000 partner pharmacies by April 1 “at the latest” and that it will “help ...
Private pharmacy RSV and dengue fever vaccine services launch in …
WEBOct 15, 2023 · Common but highly contagious respiratory virus RSV can be indistinguishable from a cold in healthy adults and older children but can lead to severe respiratory illness like bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants, young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, it added.
GPhC: Make superintendents ‘responsible’ for stricter Wegovy …
WEBSep 18, 2024 · Make superintendents ‘responsible’ for stricter Wegovy safeguards, says GPhC. 18 Sep 2024. News. “Not following” the pharmacy regulator’s proposed new guidance on weight loss drugs and online pharmacy prescribing could result in fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations into “all the pharmacy professionals involved”, it has warned ...
Wegovy: No evidence of 'causal' link between semaglutide and …
WEBSep 5, 2024 · A “thorough review” by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has found that evidence “does not support” a link between suicidal ideation and diabetes and weight management drug semaglutide. The MHRA “has concluded that the available evidence does not establish a causal relationship between Glucagon-Like ...