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EDX/20/1154
Date of prep: December 2020

Prescribing information and
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community pharmacy

📅 Live webinar: Darush Attar-Zadeh: Community pharmacy respiratory tips

6th January 2021 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

We are very proud to welcome Darush to share his insights gleaned from his recent experience during the pandemic.

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Filed Under: Events Tagged With: community pharmacy, Respiratory, webinar

The great patient medication returns debacle

16th December 2020 by PIP editor 3 Comments

There’s so much outrage on the go at the moment but I have to say the amount money drained from the NHS via the oversupply of medication must be staggering and largely unmeasured.

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Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: community pharmacy, community pharmacy Scotland, opinion, pharmacy, pharmacy in practice, PIP, Prescription charges

What next for community pharmacists managing people with asthma?

11th December 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Looking back now five years on from when I wrote the article below I am no less moved by the terrible findings of the NRAD in 2014.

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Filed Under: Insight, Opinion Tagged With: asthma, community pharmacy

Will pharmacies be asked to supply ‘free’ sanitary products?

9th December 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Scotland became the first country in the world to make legislation which effectively means the provision of free period products to those who require them.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: community pharmacy, Sanitary products, Scotland

Benacort Hayfever Relief reclassified from POM to GSL

18th November 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

The MHRA has taken the decision to reclassify the legal status for Benacort Hayfever Relief for Adults 64 micrograms nasal spray from POM to GSL.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: community pharmacist, community pharmacy, mhra

Minister thanks community pharmacy for pandemic response

6th November 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Jo Churchill has again written to community pharmacy teams to thank them for their efforts in the response to the pandemic. 

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Ask your pharmacist

4th November 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

The theme of this year’s Ask Your Pharmacist Week is ‘Your local pharmacy in the NHS family’.

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What is it like to depend on medicine to treat endometriosis?

22nd October 2020 by PIP editor

I found out today after attempting to collect my prescription from my local pharmacy that I can no longer receive my treatment for endometriosis.

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Filed Under: Blogs, Patient perspective Tagged With: brexit, community pharmacist, community pharmacy, Medication shortages, Medicine shortages, pharmacy

Vision, politics, pharmacy clubs, elitism, free services and where community pharmacy goes next

7th October 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Ian Strachan is a community pharmacy owner contractor. He owns a number of pharmacies in England. He was Chair of the NPA between 2014 to 2018.

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: community pharmacy, Ian Strachan, Interview, National Pharmacy Association, NPA, pharmacy

Pharmacies in England under-funded to the tune of £497m

4th September 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Nearly three-quarters of family-owned pharmacies in England could be forced to close in the coming years according to a damning new report.

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