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.…
Further to my recent updates about the resumption of routine dental activity from 8 June 2020, late yesterday afternoon the Chief Dental Officer for England and NHS England published the new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Transition…
Further to Friday’s announcement about the resumption of routine dental care from 8 June 2020 and the Chief Dental Officer for England’s 11-point Prompt To Prepare, over the weekend the Faculty of General Dental Practice, College…
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…
Since the UK-wide suspension of all routine dental care (and most urgent dental care) in March 2020, many dentists and dental care professionals in England have called for greater guidance from their Chief Dental Officer.…
I was recently asked to contribute to NHS Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare, a programme that works in partnership with NHS and professional bodies such as Royal Colleges to support patient care by providing…
It’s ironic that, as we approached another Thursday 8pm Clap For Our Carers yesterday, one NHS Ambulance Trust was attracting criticism following the partial publication of an independent investigation into the death by suicide of…
The College of Paramedics, in collaboration with University lecturers and senior paramedics from across the UK, has created a dedicated website for final year paramedic science students joining the HCPC’s COVID-19 Temporary Register (Students). I…
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…
