Royal College of Pharmacy cuts ties with Teva UK ahead of upcoming annual conference A due-diligence review of partnership with UK arm of Israeli-based company highlighted “activities which do not align with [the College’s] values”.…
Boots to be acquired by Canadian investors Weston family in Canada acquires high-street pharmacy chain in £6.7bn deal.…
Alex Williams: ‘There’s a risk to the resilience of the supply chain if government doesn’t invest’ Increased costs and low medicines reimbursement could jeopardise the service that wholesalers provide to pharmacies, says the new chief executive of the Healthcare Distribution Association.…
One-quarter of pharmacy owners took no salary in past year, finds CPE survey The results of Community Pharmacy England's annual pressures survey also showed that for the vast majority of pharmacy owners, NHS reimbursement did not cover the cost of medicines.…
Short-term savings, long-term costs: what cuts to medicines optimisation teams could mean for the NHS Integrated care boards have confirmed to The Pharmaceutical Journal that they are reducing headcount in their medicines optimisation teams, which are primarily formed of pharmacists. What will this mean for the future NHS?…
Cost of prescription items dispensed in community increases by 4% in a year National Pharmacy Association chief executive says government must “step in to stabilise” workload pressure caused by rise in medication prices and prescriptions.…
Is masking simply an unspoken leadership tax? Why management culture is not always necessarily suited to those who are neurodivergent.…
‘Australia’s largest discount pharmacy chain’ to enter UK market Sigma Healthcare, owner of Chemist Warehouse, has acquired a 75% interest in “a number of stores” owned by Greenlight Healthcare.…
Criminals cloned one in ten online pharmacy websites in past year, survey shows A National Pharmacy Association survey has revealed that two in five online pharmacies reported that patients unknowingly bought weight-loss medication from unregulated providers in the past year.…
Pharmacies cut Sunday opening hours owing to ‘chronic underfunding’ Analysis of NHS data by the National Pharmacy Association has revealed that less than one-fifth of pharmacies in England open to patients on Sundays.…
