A fitness-to-practice (FtP) committee has suspended a pharmacist for one month after he called a patient a “nutter” during a phone call with them and later refused to apologise.

A group of 45 cross-party MPs have signed a letter to Wes Streeting calling for “an urgent review into ongoing medication shortages”, saying that if action is not taken, the crisis will “worsen”.

A pharmacist has been struck off the register after he was caught after sharing indecent images of children on an internet chatroom. Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after ...

The Health and Social Care Committee has asked NHS England to respond by March 14 to questions on when the community pharmacy economic analysis will be finished, if it will publish it in full, and if ...

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) is set to bat for pharmacy staff to be included in NHS sick leave policy, after four workers came down with whooping cough when a colleague returned to work ...

A House of Lords debate has seen a majority agree to a Lib Dem amendment that pharmacies will be exempt from an increase in national insurance contributions.

The CCA has welcomed the launch of a report by the Pharmacy Vaccinations Development Group (PVDG) which calls for community pharmacy to be “harnessed” to combat falling vaccine uptake ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists can impact everything from periods to sexual desire to fertility and pregnancy - and it might soon be introduced as an effective treatment for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

I would like to thank community pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy teams for delivering excellent clinical services, and would urge you to take part in the consultation.