‘Bah humbug’ from the Department of Health and NHS EnglandAccording to the Department of Health and NHS England in their letter about community pharmacy contractual funding for 2016–2017: “There is real potential for far greater use of community pharmacy and pharmacists.” So clearly the NHS has finally appreciated the oft-discussed &ldquo…
How you can get involved in humanitarian aidEveryone will have seen the increasing coverage of disasters and health needs around the world in recent years. Many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are stretched with supporting refugees on our doorstep, as well as deploying teams on the ground where the disasters strike. Since I establ…
Drug company’s advisory board meeting ‘breached industry code’ A UK pharmaceutical company’s “unacceptable” advisory board meeting, highlighted in a series of Daily Telegraph articles in July 2015, breached the industry’s code of practice, the regulator has ruled.…
A hit below the belt for community pharmacyThe subheading “putting pharmacy at the heart of the NHS” from the letter from the Department of Health (DoH) and NHS England on community pharmacy contractual funding sounded great. However, the messages in it were not the Christmas present or the vision and leadership that the dedicate…
Deaths: Kenneth Stanley SealOn 4 December 2015, Kenneth Stanley Seal FRPharmS, aged 93, of Sheffield, Yorkshire. Mr Seal joined the Society in 1946. …
Tribute to Kenneth SealKen Seal was born on 14 September 1922 in Sheffield. He studied pharmacy at Nottingham University but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War where the imposed lottery system resulted in him becoming a ‘Bevin Boy’ and so he spent the later war years down a mine. After the war he qua…
An introduction to veterinary medicines ‘What you should know about selling veterinary medicines’, by Steven Kayne, Martin Shakespeare, Stephen Baugh, Alison Pyatt.…
Get started with research in community pharmacy Carrying out research may be a daunting prospect for busy community pharmacists. But getting involved can boost your clinical skills, widen your contact network and help change practice, finds Ross Ferguson.…
Backlash over 6% cut to community pharmacy funding The government faces a strong backlash from community pharmacy bodies over plans to cut the community pharmacy contractual framework in England by 6.1% in 2016.…
Leading the way for women in science as a pharmaceutical entrepreneur Serial entrepreneur Claire Thompson recently secured the Royal Pharmaceutical Society commendation for pharmaceutical science. Here, she talks to Emma Page about business, women in science and football.…