I’m not for more regulation but I am in favour of effective regulation. Registrants deserve a regulator that is working well and engaged with the profession.
I’m appalled by the fact that community pharmacy teams don’t appear to have been included in the announcement of a £60,000 death in service benefit.
The pandemic community pharmacy delivery service is not worth the paper it’s written on.
I’ll level with you. I think the widespread use of volunteers to deliver medicines to shielded patients poses significant risks on a number of fronts.
Once again, these green shoots and genuine leadership are emerging from Scotland.
If we, as pharmacists, don’t fully understand our identity – which I think we don’t – then we should not be surprised when the general public doesn’t either.
Are community pharmacists trying to protect their EHC secret treasure? What are the reasons we don’t currently allow the public to self select EHC?
If you work in community pharmacy, you’ll be familiar with the patient returns situation. If not, you need to know what is going on.
We asked three leading pharmacists whether or not they felt at this stage that pharmacists should be allowed to become designated medical prescribers to support fellow pharmacists meet the requirements of the current independent prescribing course. Currently designated medical prescribers who supervise the training of independent pharmacist prescribing students are required to be medical doctors. […]
To put the present state of community pharmacy into context we need to go back in time a bit. Before 2005, owning a pharmacy was basically a licence to print money. It was virtually impossible not to be profitable. But then a new contractual framework for community pharmacies was introduced in April 2005. […]
