‘A global outlier’: how drug firms are fighting back against UK tax increases With the UK tax on net sales of branded medicines quadrupling over the past three years, medicine manufacturers warn it will affect access to new drugs and are threatening to withdraw — but are these empty threats?…
Complex and inflexible: the shortcomings of serious shortage protocols Use of ‘serious shortage protocols’ dropped significantly in 2022, despite growing numbers of medicine shortages, leaving pharmacists calling for the system to be overhauled.…
Government misses consultation deadline for post-Brexit scheme to detect fake medicines The UK government aimed to issue a public consultation on a national falsified medicine scheme within 12 months of enacting the Medicines and Medical Devices Act on 11 February 2021.…
Falsified Medicines Directive will close in Great Britain at the end of 2020 Pharmacies in Great Britain should ensure that their systems are no longer connected to the UK Medicines Verification System at the end of 2020, the UK FMD Working Group for Community Pharmacy has said.…
Proposed legislation could see government ‘broaden’ use of data collected through the Falsified Medicines Directive Members of the House of Lords have warned that proposed legislation for a UK version of the Falsified Medicines Directive “considerably broadens” how medicines data collected through the system would be used.…
Pharmacists could be able to prescribe ‘low-risk’ drugs under new legislation Pharmacists could be given new powers to prescribe medicines in low-risk situations as part of new legislation being put forward by the government.…
Pharmacists lack knowledge and confidence around cannabis, study finds Pharmacists support the use of medical cannabis in practice but have concerns about the potential harms it may cause to patients, the results of a systematic review show…
New ‘hub-and-spoke’ dispensing model consultation likely, says leading pharmacy lawyer Changes to legislation allowing for wider use of ‘hub-and-spoke’ dispensing are likely to move forward, a leading pharmacy lawyer has said.…
Support Jersey’s GPs to prescribe medical cannabis, deputy says The Jersey government should support doctors on the island to prescribe medical cannabis, a member of the States Assembly of Jersey has said.…
Brexit delaying new legislation on dispensing errors, health minister says The health minister Steve Brine has said that a focus on Brexit legislation means that parliament has been “unable to consider” new legislation on dispensing errors.…
