GPhC sees 15% rise in concerns raised about registrants in 2018/2019 The General Pharmaceutical Council has seen a 15% year-on-year increase in the number of complaints it has received about pharmacists on the register.…
Pharmacy2U could provide up to 3,000 telephone NMS appointments each month Online pharmacy Pharmacy2U has said it will start to deliver the new medicine service in the coming months, estimating that it could provide up to 3,000 telephone appointments each month.…
Inside Pharmacy2U From controversial marketing campaigns to fears that its vast dispensing facilities will quash high street pharmacy businesses, Pharmacy2U’s rise has not gone unnoticed.…
Pharmacy Schools Council on the GPhC’s conclusions to the pharmacy education consultationThis letter is in response to the news story ‘GPhC set to confirm it will require universities to offer integrated pharmacy programmes’. The outcomes of the consultation [on the ‘Initial education and training standards for pharmacists’] are very largely in line wi…
GPhC set to confirm it will require universities to offer integrated pharmacy programmes The General Pharmaceutical Council has said it is likely to move forward with proposals requiring pharmacy schools to offer integrated programmes of “study and practical experience”.…
Pharmacist prescribing of controlled drugs increases by 50% in a year Pharmacist prescribing of controlled drug items has increased by more than 50% in the year between 2017 and 2018, the Care Quality Commission has found.…
Deaths: Christopher John ShewringOn 29 June 2019, Christopher John Shewring MRPharmS, aged 82 years, of Sudbury, Suffolk. Mr Shewring registered with the Society in 1962.…
GPhC given powers to resolve fitness to practise cases without a full hearing The General Pharmaceutical Council will be able to conclude fitness to practise cases without a full panel hearing, under new regulation reforms put forward by the government.…
Pharmacists advised to check legal status of CBD products before supply or risk indemnity breach Pharmacists selling or supplying cannabis-based products for medicinal use or cannabidiol-containing products must check the status of the product or risk not being protected by indemnity insurance, the National Pharmacy Association has warned.…
Boys aged 12 and 13 years to be offered HPV vaccine from September 2019, PHE announces From September 2019, boys aged 12 and 13 years will be offered the free human papillomavirus vaccine, Public Health England has announced.…
