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First survey of pharmaceutical workforce to identify education and training needs

The first national community pharmacy workforce survey to look at training and education needs for pharmacists working in community pharmacies has been launched…

Pharmacists urged to contact every new MP

Pharmacists are being encouraged to talk to their MPs as pharmacy bodies ramp up their political engagement.…

Conflict did not lead to demise of Pharmacy Voice, says former chief executive Rob Darracott

Rob Darracott, chief executive of the now disbanded Pharmacy Voice, has denied assertions that conflict between the multiples and independent pharmacies led to its closure.…

Pharmacy organisations in the UK: a complicated web

Pharmacy is a diverse profession and this is reflected in the wide variety of organisations that can represent the interests of pharmacists, pharmacy owners, trainees and students.…

Pharmacy organisations in the UK: a complicated web

Pharmacy is a diverse profession and this is reflected in the wide variety of organisations that can represent the interests of pharmacists, pharmacy owners, trainees and students.…

Pharmacy Voice to close in April 2017

The advocacy body will be disbanded after one of its founding member organisations announced in December 2016 that it was leaving the group at the end of 2017.…

Pharmacy Voice to disband following NPA departure

Pharmacy Voice, the lobbying group and trade association that represents community pharmacy in England, has revealed that it will disband following the National Pharmacy Association’s (NPA) decision to leave.…

National Pharmacy Association to leave Pharmacy Voice after 2017

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), an industry body that represents independent pharmacies, will not continue to be part of the umbrella trade body Pharmacy Voice “beyond 2017”.…

Patients needing urgent repeat prescriptions will be referred to pharmacies, not GPs

Patients who require urgent repeat medicines will be urged to see a community pharmacist rather than go to a GP or A&E department to take pressure off urgent care services under plans revealed by community health and care minister David Mowat.…

Execution is key when it comes to centralised dispensing in community pharmacy

Proposals to amend legislation so that the playing field is levelled for all pharmacies to use centralised dispensing is the right move if pharmacists are to provide more clinical services.…