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WEBThe National Pharmacy Association (NPA) will ballot its members for the very first time on work to rule action next week – and has warned it could result in ‘a lot’ of pharmacies shutting on Saturdays by the end of the year. Chemist+Druggist is a multimedia publisher that provides award-winning pharmacy news, views and CPD content to ...
UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched …
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · Pharmacies can now sign up to offer the UK’s “first” private COVID-19 vaccination service as of today, Pharmadoctor revealed to C+D today (February 1). The pharmacy service provider said that COVID-19 vaccination stock will be available to its more than 8,000 partner pharmacies by April 1 “at the latest” and that it will “help ...
Private pharmacy RSV and dengue fever vaccine services launch in …
WEBOct 15, 2023 · Common but highly contagious respiratory virus RSV can be indistinguishable from a cold in healthy adults and older children but can lead to severe respiratory illness like bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants, young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, it added.
Coroner: Patient dies after pharmacy supplied 'additional ... - C+D
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Kate Bowie. The pharmacist "believed that he had a discretion to provide [the drug] in advance". “The actions of [a] pharmacy contributed more than minimally” to the death of 45-year-old Anthony Paul Nixon by “supplying additional methadone on multiple occasions”, a prevention of future deaths report published yesterday (August 19) has ...
Pharmacists will administer COVID-19 vaccines when available
WEBOct 16, 2020 · The DH told C+D today that community pharmacists are among those who will be able to administer a COVID-19 vaccine. +. Asked if pharmacy technicians will also be allowed to offer COVID-19 and flu vaccines, the DH said it will keep all options open for other healthcare professions. The changes to the …
‘Fast-growing’ online pharmacy secures funding to expand ... - C+D
WEBAug 22, 2024 · A “fast-growing” online pharmacy has secured investment to support its “organic growth strategy focused on the weight loss, hair loss and erectile dysfunction private prescription markets”, Rockpool Investments told C+D this week (August 19).
‘Worse than ever’: Which medicines are pharmacists struggling
WEBAug 30, 2022 · JWW Allison in Cockermouth, Cumbria, is “at present” struggling to get hold of “quite a few” medicines, its director Nat Mitchell told C+D, including Buscopan, Asacol tablets, HRT gel Sandrena, Dioralyte, hydrocortisone ampoules and the rabies vaccine. Shortages for these products have been particularly pronounced in recent months, Mr ...
Oasis, a happy reunion, and a trip down pharmacy's memory …
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Oasis has reformed 15 years after a bust up in Paris – so naturally C+D got to thinking what was happening in pharmacy 15 years ago today... here is the first in a series of C+D time capsules that may stir some nostalgic memories. Cast your mind back to 1994. Oasis had released Definitely Maybe, and everything was calm with the Gallagher ...
Asda pays pharmacists incentive to accept reduced hours - C+D
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Pharmacists that accept the new contract will receive a one-off “pharmacist payment”, a spokesperson for Asda confirmed. The spokesperson told C+D today (June 19) that the supermarket was “proposing some changes” to its pharmacy operations "following a recent change in pharmacy opening hours across [its] estate”.
Pharmacy2U and Royal Mail launch NHS prescription deliveries …
WEBJul 7, 2022 · Pharmacy2U has partnered with Royal Mail’s new division, Royal Mail Health, to offer free NHS prescription deliveries across the UK “reliably and safely”, the companies have announced, just days before planned strike action by Royal Mail managers.