A UK-based solicitor blogging about defending professionals and regulatory law, mainly in the healthcare sector
For years, I’ve had a niche practice advising clients (usually private medical clinics and pharmacies) in relation to advertising of medicines and medicinal products. This skillset used to get pulled out of the bag about…
Yesterday, I spoke at the Pharmacy Law & Ethics Association’s annual seminar. My topic was fitness to practise-related legal highlights of 2025/26 and I picked the following from a long shortlist: ~ Suresh v General…
The GPhC has taken the rare step of writing to all pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy owners to warn of “some emerging issues which have led to concerns being raised“. Unfortunately, the team and I…
Pharmacy magazine recently asked me to comment on the regulatory issues relating to supporting staff with long Covid. The full article can be read here.
Some major news in both the community pharmacy and pharmaceutical sectors today. The MHRA has issued a relatively rare Drug Safety Update and Class 2 Medicines Recall directing that pholcodine-containing products be immediately withdrawn from…
Each month I prepare a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month. During November 2022, I found myself talking about: Between July and September 2022,…
Each month I prepare a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month(s). October 2022 found us talking about the following: We have a new Secretary of State…
Each month I prepare a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month. During September 2022, these were: The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services)…
Each month I prepare a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month. During August 2022, my team and I found ourselves talking about the following with…
Each month I prepare a note of the most interesting or important regulatory developments in community pharmacy over the preceding month. During July 2022, these were: A new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care was appointed…
