It’s not very common for Coronial Prevention of Future Deaths Reports, or PFDs, to specifically relate to actions in community pharmacy. However, one published this week does precisely that. The case arises from the death…
The GPhC (General Pharmaceutical Council) and CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) have issued a joint letter to community pharmacies advising that they “have received reports alleging that a small minority of pharmacies are seeking to…
Chemist+Druggist magazine recently asked me to explain the legal issues around the government’s life assurance scheme for those working in community pharmacy and how easy or difficult it might be to make a successful claim.…
There has been widespread media coverage about the thousands of healthcare professionals who have altruistically returned to work in order to assist during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this blog, I explain the temporary register established…
On Friday, Chemist+Druggist (the community pharmacy sector publication) asked me to write a blog about the new two-part Community Pharmacy Pandemic Delivery Service, which I have been talking about on Twitter over recent days. An…
Pharmacy In Practice invited me on to their podcast today. We chatted about: Temporary deregulation of the pharmacy market My advice for pharmacists having to make difficult ethical/professional decisions How things may change in the…
On Friday evening (10 April 2020), NHS England and NHS Improvement published details of the first new services and corresponding funding for community pharmacies in England responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. With effect from 8…
The Professional Standards Authority (the body which oversees the UK’s 10 health and care regulators) has today published its 2018/19 annual performance review of the General Pharmaceutical Council, or GPhC. On a positive note, the…
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…
