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South London Pearl Chemist Group has announced a tie-up with the online delivery platform Just Eat.
07 Oct 2025
Average hourly rates tumble everywhere except Northern Ireland.
The sector could save the NHS billions of pounds and improve patients’ lives through smarter medicines use, a new economic analysis has revealed.
06 Oct 2025
Headaches are a common presentation in pharmacy, but diagnosing the underlying cause can be difficult. To support pharmacists when advising patients, Rod Tucker explores the more common causes and treatment options.
01 Oct 2025
The requirement to provide one ABPM consultation per month as part of the 'bundling' requirements for Pharmacy First fixed monthly payments is put on hold.
30 Sep 2025
Welsh Government announces 99 per cent of pharmacies able to treat UTIs as part of CAS from October.
New goals to transform pharmacy services across Wales over the next three years have been launched.
25 Sep 2025
There are some 14.4 million under-18s in the UK, making up almost 20 per cent of the population that need to access health services. For them to feel confident about doing this via pharmacy, they need to feel safe and welcome, says Sarah Purcell.
Patients with skin conditions often struggle to manage their symptoms. Rod Tucker explores how pharmacists can help them get optimal results from their treatments, in particular for plaque psoriasis.
23 Sep 2025
Huge media effort underway to reassure pregnant women over alarmist comments from President.
Pharmacies face deep rooted prejudice from NHS management and lack a level playing field with other healthcare professionals, alleges the IPA.
09 Sep 2025
ChatGPT knows less about therapeutics than pharmacy students, suggests new research from the US.
05 Sep 2025
Despite the major Government push to digitise healthcare and integrate artificial intelligence into NHS services, UK patients are showing strong resistance to AI consultations and instead placing growing trust in community pharmacists, according to the latest STADA Health Report.
04 Sep 2025
Changes to England's Pharmacy First, PCS and NMS due in October subject to clinical IT systems being ready on schedule.
02 Sep 2025
The updated pathways contain new Gateway Points and will come into effect in October.
A father seeks advice for his four-year-old daughter, who is at home. She has had diarrhoea for the last 36 hours, with frequent trips to the toilet, where she passes very loose and watery stools. She has also been sick a couple of times during the last 24 hours. Both he and his wife have been trying to make their daughter eat and drink but have restricted her to soup. What would you advise him to do? By Professor Paul Rutter, University of Portsmouth
