I also read comments that CPE does not appreciate this critical position, and I fundamentally refute that. Knowing the colleagues, both elected and employed, at CPE as I do, this is far from the case.

Paydens Pharmacy has announced the rollout of a private prescribing service that allows patients to access same-day care “without needing to see their GP” for £15 per consultation.

The two pharmacy bodies have urged NHS England (NHSE) to “release immediately” its “long-awaited” economic analysis of community pharmacy, stressing that their “collective voice must be heard”.

The health secretary has deemed Boots weight loss safeguards “totally unacceptable” after a new Dispatches documentary found that the pharmacy provided a 16-year-old with Wegovy against its own policy ...

Community pharmacy is risk adverse, considered, and dare I say it, conservative. But, when it comes to the survival of pharmacy, we can’t afford to let the fear of change – or those resistant to it - ...

How has the role of a pharmacy technician been professionalised, and what's their place within community pharmacy’s future?

GPs must reinstall GP connect, which allows pharmacies to send routine consultation information to their patients’ GP practices, as part of their £889m-boosted contract, NHS England (NHSE) has ...

Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has told pharmacy owners to check their orders after receiving reports of “losses incurred” by contractors who unintentionally dispensed disallowed items. Kate Bowie ...

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 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 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 ...