As all newly qualified pharmacists become independent prescribers from 2026, a pharmacy lecturer shares some of the concerns her students have shared as they complete their studies… ...

Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, ...

Pfizer has announced it will “discontinue” the development of a weight loss pill amid “potential drug-induced liver injury”, less than two years after it decided “not [to] advance” a previous version.

The DH has revealed plans to expand the pharmacy RSV vaccine programme by “up to 200 sites in identified target areas” in 2025/26 to “reverse the downward trend” in uptake. Molly Bowcott joined C+D as ...

The government has issued a warning that multiple strengths of fentanyl delivered through transdermal patches will be out of stock until the end of the year. Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital ...

Following the announcement of the long-awaited pharmacy funding deal, C+D sets out a timeline of when changes are due to be implemented over the course of the next year… Molly Bowcott joined C+D as a ...

A snowballing number of pharmacists who “feel like they're missing out” are willing to fork out thousands for a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) to complete their independent prescribing (IP) ...

Along with the long-awaited pharmacy funding deal for 2025/26 came several government commitments on what the sector can expect in the future contract – so what exactly has been pledged? Molly Bowcott ...

Two pharmacists have received sanctions from the GPhC for failing to “provide assurance” that cannabis based medicinal products (CBMP) were “appropriately prescribed” with “adequate” safeguards in ...

'The sector is under tremendous financial pressure, but the measures we’re announcing today will go a long way to mitigating those pressures and help get the sector back onto an even keel.' James ...