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Online pharmacy dispensing volume grows by 45% in 2020, fuelled by COVID-19 pandemic

Exclusive: Distance-selling pharmacies dispensed 42 million items in 2020, an increase on the 29 million items dispensed in 2019.…

Coroner’s report recommends tightening regulation around forms of codeine and morphine

A report calls for opioids that are prescription-only medicines to be regulated as schedule 3 drugs, to make them harder to access inappropriately.…

Reaching for the cloud: the case for a universal digital patient record

Pharmacists have long called for read-write access to the patient record, with patient consent. In this blog, Clare Morrison, director for Scotland at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, makes the case for going one step beyond: holding patient records in a single, universal data cloud.…

Rowlands Pharmacy owner buys digital prescription service

Phoenix UK has purchased the digital prescription service Co-op Health.…

Amazon secures ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ trademark in the UK

The trademark's registration comes after Amazon acquired US online pharmacy PillPack in 2019, although critics say face-to-face pharmacy interaction is valuable.…

Three hospital trusts trial electronic prescription service during COVID-19 pandemic

Three hospital trusts in England have been piloting the electronic prescription service in an effort to “support COVID-19 outpatients” ahead of a wider roll-out.…

NOW EXTENDED: A brave new world? Share your ideas on post-pandemic pharmacy in our writing competition

Flex your creative skills and enter our annual writing competition this year.…

Items dispensed from electronic prescriptions increase by 22% in March 2020

The number of items dispensed through electronic prescribing increased by nearly a quarter in March 2020, according to data published by NHS Business Services Authority.…

Pharmacy2U ‘mega facility’ refused inclusion on pharmaceutical list by NHS litigation arm

Pharmacy2U’s application to include its new Leicester ‘mega facility’ on the pharmaceutical list has been refused by the NHS’s litigation arm.…

Amazon applies for UK ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ trademark

E-commerce and technology giant Amazon has applied for a UK trademark for the term Amazon Pharmacy.…