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11.12.2020
People with long-term health conditions urged to get flu vaccine before Christmas
10.12.2020
Natural history of non-bullous impetigo: A systematic review of time to resolution or improvement without antibiotic treatment
10.12.2020
COVID-19 vaccination programme – Key information for pharmacy professionals and pharmacy owners
10.12.2020
GPhC – Understanding COVID-19 outcomes for ethnic minority healthcare workers
10.12.2020
EU Exit – medicines supply continuity: Letter from Dr Keith Ridge
7.12.2020
COVID-19 vaccinations and care homes: programme launch
7.12.2020
Advising on medicines regimens during breastfeeding
7.12.2020
COVID-19 vaccination programme
7.12.2020
Why breastfeeding is important and how pharmacy can help
7.12.2020
Scottish Medicines Consortium December decisions for medicines to be used in NHSScotland
4.12.2020
Public Health England prescribed medicines report
4.12.2020
New product evaluations for November 2020 by the Specialist Pharmacy Service
4.12.2020
BTS Clinical Statement on pulmonary sarcoidosis
3.12.2020
Neonatal and paediatric pharmacists group publish a position statement on how to choose an oral liquid for a child
3.12.2020
Company sanctioned for encouraging people not to wear masks
3.12.2020
Advertising standards agency publishes a summary of guidance to ensure the appropriate promotion of Covid-19 related items such as masks
3.12.2020
Advertising standards agency publish guidance on advertising Covid-19 antibody tests
2.12.2020
Eliminating HIV transmission by 2030
2.12.2020
Community Asymptomatic Test site opens in Johnstone
2.12.2020
EMA receives application for conditional marketing authorisation of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
2.12.2020
EMA starts rolling review of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine
1.12.2020
EMA receives application for conditional marketing authorisation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine
30.11.2020
PDA raises community pharmacy NHS contractual breach concerns
30.11.2020
Leaflet for a healthcare service was banned for implying that their food supplements could prevent, treat or cure human disease.
30.11.2020
Full findings of surveys of provisionally-registered pharmacists published
27.11.2020
Direct oral anticoagulants: evidence and unresolved issues
27.11.2020
Gout drug Colchicine to be tested as COVID-19 treatment in UK trial
27.11.2020
Joint letter from the GPhC, UK Chief Pharmaceutical Officers and the PSNI thanks everyone working in pharmacy as they face into the second wave of COVID-19.
27.11.2020
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland welcomed nine new fellows.
26.11.2020
PSNC seeks to address workload pressures during second wave