The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has the government’s “full” backing to “tackle the misuse of weight loss medications”, health minister Karin Smyth last week (June 10) revealed. The comment ...

The Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) today (June 17) revealed that community pharmacies “administered over four million flu vaccines across England in the 2024/25 winter flu season” - the “highest ...

The RPS yesterday (June 16) revealed that it has appointed Amandeep Doll as its new director for England following a “competitive and rigorous recruitment process”. Doll currently works as a ...

“There is little capacity to deliver” planned NHS reform without “further details and meaningful actions” from the government, primary care bodies yesterday (June 16) warned. Last week, Chancellor ...

Drug linked to the most deaths? The MHRA told C+D that from the point of licensing until the end of May, the GLP-1 RA linked to most deaths through ADR reports was liraglutide with some 37 reports ...

A local pharmaceutical committee (LPC) chair was awarded an honour in King Charles’ birthday honours list on Friday (June 13). Amish Patel has been recognised for “services to community pharmacy” and ...

NHSE chief executive Sir James Mackey this week (June 11) stressed that commissioners must focus on “outcomes and results rather than inputs” as part of the hotly anticipated 10-year health plan. He ...

Health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday (June 12) stressed that the promised move of care out of hospitals and into the community – one of the NHS 10-year plan’s flagship three shifts – will not ...

Huge news, potentially, for online operators. Like Charlie and the Semaglutide factory, five lucky existing online weight-loss jab providers will be chosen to lead the charge. Varnish The weight-loss ...

There is a “really significant opportunity” for community pharmacy in new weight loss jab services, England’s CPhO has revealed. C+D yesterday (June 12) asked David Webb at the NHS Confed Expo in ...

The new NHS workforce plan is set to “look and feel really quite radically different”, NHSE chief executive James Mackey yesterday (June 11) revealed. Mackey made the comment during his keynote speech ...

NHS England (NHSE) national director for primary care Dr Amanda Doyle yesterday (June 11) revealed that GPs will play a central role in the highly anticipated 10-year health plan. Speaking at the NHS ...