A UK-based solicitor blogging about defending professionals and regulatory law, mainly in the healthcare sector
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. During September 2022, these were: The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services)…
There is so much happening in the world of pharmacy at present, in particular many changes to the process for training as a pharmacist independent prescriber. Fewer than 20% of pharmacists on the General Pharmaceutical…
This month, Health Service Journal asked for my advice in relation to the discovery that the families of fewer than half of the 547 NHS and social care staff who have died from COVID19 so…
A very interesting (but concerning) study has been published in this month’s BMJ Open – ‘Does occupational distress raise the risk of alcohol use, binge-eating, ill health and sleep problems among medical doctors? A UK cross-sectional…
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…
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…
