Professions

Why pharmacists should never settle for a general practice that doesn’t support them

Rupa Lyall’s first experience of general practice was a sour one, but she didn’t give up and found a practice where she belongs.…

GPhC proposes 40% increase in annual pharmacy registration costs

The General Pharmaceutical Council is consulting on whether to increase annual registration fees for pharmacy premises by £103 from October 2020.…

Half of NHS trusts outsource outpatient pharmacy services to avoid VAT

Half of NHS trusts now outsource their outpatient pharmacies in an effort to save on tax, according to NHS figures, despite union leaders saying this practice is detrimental to staff pay.…

Training for accuracy checking now open to all pharmacy technicians

All pharmacy technicians are now able to access a fully funded training programme to become final accuracy checkers.…

Top ten most popular opinion articles of 2019

The Pharmaceutical Journal wasn’t short of strong views this year — whether it was a criticism of clinical guidance or a defence of the pharmacy profession. Here are the opinions that resonated most with you in 2019.…

New government pledges to ‘unleash potential’ of community pharmacy

The newly elected Conservative Party government plans to “unleash the potential” of community pharmacies to become a first port of call for the treatment of minor illness.…

More than £50,000 in unpaid locum fees recovered in 2019, says PDA

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association has helped locum pharmacists recover more than £50,000 in unpaid fees so far in 2019.…

Community pharmacy careers are not inferior to those in other sectors

I read Ankit Thapar’s response to ‘Those “timid about inclusion” will not succeed, delegates hear at RPS’s first BAME event’ with interest. While I am not in a position to challenge his assertions about the difficulties black, Asian and minority ethnic pharm…

GPhC publishes guidance for pharmacist prescribers

General Pharmaceutical Council guidance for pharmacist prescribers includes “a number of changes” from proposed guidance that was put out for consultation earlier this year.…

Pharmacists face same workforce crisis as general practice, warns CCA chief

Community pharmacy is “facing the same recruitment and retention crisis” as general practice, the head of the Company Chemists’ Association has said.…