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EDX/20/1154
Date of prep: December 2020

Prescribing information and
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Opinion

Some pharmacists should receive penalty points

4th May 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

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.

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: opinion

Outrage that pharmacy is excluded from death in service benefit

29th April 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

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.

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Death in service, Mike Hewitson

Community pharmacy volunteer delivery service ‘doomed to fail’

16th April 2020 by PIP editor 1 Comment

The pandemic community pharmacy delivery service is not worth the paper it’s written on.

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: blog, Coronavirus

Volunteers, medicine deliveries and what if it all goes wrong?

12th April 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

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.

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Coronavirus, Covid 19, opinion

‘Pharmacy First’ a first for pharmacy

6th February 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Once again, these green shoots and genuine leadership are emerging from Scotland.

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Filed Under: Opinion, Scotland Tagged With: independent prescribing, Pharmacy First

The great pharmacy identity crisis

20th January 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

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.

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Filed Under: News, Opinion Tagged With: Identity crisis, pharmacist, Pharmacist identity, pharmacy, pharmacy in practice, PIP

Are community pharmacists trying to protect their EHC secret treasure?

6th December 2019 by PIP editor 1 Comment

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?

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Stop throwing NHS money in the Pharmacy bin

2nd December 2019 by PIP editor 1 Comment

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.

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Vox pop: Should pharmacists be permitted to be designated medical prescribers in order to support the training of pharmacist prescribers?

14th November 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

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. […]

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Is the only answer to nationalise community pharmacy?

5th November 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

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. […]

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