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World news wrapup: 23 March 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world London: The legal challenge to the more than £320m funding cut to the community pharmacy budget in England has …
Hub and spoke could close all but 1000 English pharmacies
England could find itself with only 1000 pharmacies left, according to leading UK pharmacist Mark Burdon, a Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee representative, told the UK’s All-Party Pharmacy Group that the …
World news wrapup: 16 March 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world UK: Only four out of more than 8,000 pharmacies were rated “excellent” by the UK’s pharmacy regulator following its …
World news wrapup: 9 March 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world UK: 78 pharmacies applied for financial protection from the UK’s funding cuts… and all 78 have been knocked back. …
World news wrapup: 2 March 2017
We take a look at community pharmacy around the world Belanguru, India: A pharmacist’s plot to “expose” an e-pharmacy’s trade in banned drugs has backfired on him after it filed …
UK ‘end of the sector’ possible
UK politicians don’t understand the value of community pharmacy, a senior executive believes – and so the pharmacy minister may oversee the sector’s end In an interview with C+D, Cormac …
World news wrapup: 23 February 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world London, UK: Researchers at Imperial College London have released a study which found that antibiotics are illegally available without …
World news wrapup: 16 February 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world Nottingham, UK: A nine-year-old girl was mistakenly given methadone at her local pharmacy after she was prescribed antibiotics. Mother …
World news wrapup: 9 February 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world Essex, UK: A pharmacist who waited with an elderly patient for nearly two hours in below freezing temperatures has …
Pharmacist steals nearly £11,000
A British pharmacist has been struck off after stealing nearly £11,000 (AUD$17,865) from his workplace and attempting to conceal the theft using invoices from a nearby GP surgery A committee of the …
World news wrapup: 2 February 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world Indiana, US: Juveniles who face charges of robbing a pharmacy would be tried as adults under a new Bill …
World news wrapup: 26 January 2017
We take a look at pharmacy news from around the world US: A new report from LinkedIn ranks pharmacy as the second-most promising job of 2017. The report, released for …