Pharmacy bodies lose final legal challenge to fight pharmacy cuts The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has said it gained “useful insight” into government thinking despite losing its legal attempt to force a judicial review of cuts to the community pharmacy budget.…
Bawa-Garba wins appeal to be reinstated to medical register A paediatric trainee who was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after the death of a six-year-old boy from sepsis has won her appeal to be reinstated to the medical register and continue to practise as a doctor.…
Government gives green light for medical cannabis to be legalised by autumn 2018GPs across the UK will be able to prescribe cannabis-derived medicines by the autumn, home secretary Sajid Javid has announced.…
Official advice on reclassification of medicinal cannabis expected before end of July A decision on the rescheduling of cannabis-related medicinal products from a team of government advisors can be expected within three weeks, the Home Secretary has said.…
Over 80% of pharmacists support reclassifying cannabis for medicinal use Cannabis should be rescheduled within the Misuse of Drugs Act to allow research to take place, say the vast majority of respondents to a Royal Pharmaceutical Society survey.…
RPS supports reclassifying cannabis for medicinal use The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has written to home secretary Sajid Javid to express the Society’s support for the rescheduling of cannabis for medicinal purposes.…
Government to review medicinal use of cannabis The government will consider whether medicinal cannabis should be rescheduled, Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, has announced.…
Government launches double consultation on dispensing errors legislation and role of responsible and superintendent pharmacists The government has launched a consultation on extending the new defence for dispensing errors from community pharmacists to other parts of the profession, and a second consultation on clarification of how registered pharmacies should be governed.…
Hard Brexit could wipe out UK’s parallel trade in pharmaceuticals A hard Brexit would eliminate the UK’s parallel pharmaceutical distribution market, according to legal counsel to the British Association of European Pharmaceutical Distributors.…
Arbitration body ends Boots-BPA deal Bargaining arrangements between Boots and the Boots Pharmacists’ Association have been terminated by the body responsible for resolving collective workplace disputes.…
