The Pharmaceutical Journal recently sought my advice for a professional dilemma piece about handling online criticism. The published article can be read here. In response to a distressed pharmacist, I advised: Social media provides an…
On 14 December the Court handed down Judgment in a case which has been quietly progressing over the past year. My client, the National Pharmacy Association (“NPA”) successfully defended an application by Pharmacy2U, the UK’s…
This blog by me was published in Chemist+Druggist on 31 August 2018: Last week, the Court of Appeal handed down its much anticipated Judgment declining to quash the 2015/16 decision to impose unprecedented funding…
From Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 May 2018, the National Pharmacy Association’s continued appeal against the government’s decision to reduce community pharmacy funding by circa £113m was heard at the Court of Appeal in London. …
Mike Hewitson (pharmacy contractor/NPA board member) and I have written a blog together for Chemist+Druggist magazine regarding the current NHS England consultation on prescribing for certain ‘minor’ conditions. Do make your views known before the…
This year I have received a large number of enquiries from community pharmacists regarding what might be termed ‘vaccination wars’. It is a sad reflection on the current state of NHS funding that the need…
Although the Department of Health has repeatedly expressed its intention to decriminalise community pharmacy dispensing errors over recent years, little in the way of tangible progress occurred until Tuesday 14 November, when Stephen Brine MP…
I’ve written and lectured quite frequently since qualifying as a solicitor in 2004. If you’d like to read a selection of recently (but pre-blog) published articles, please see below: 2017 How Should Pharmacists Act In…
