by John Finey | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, Community Pharmacy, Pharmacist, public speaking, Uncategorized
Whilst not the best English Scholar (just scraped through Lang’ and Lit’ O’levels) I seem to be getting increasingly grumpy about current trends with language. Years ago trends and fashions we dictated by music, whether it was Mods and Rockers in the ‘60s or punks the...
by John Finey | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
‘Who is our customer?’ sounds like a silly question. Someone walks into my pharmacy presenting a prescription, it’s obvious isn’t it? Well yes and no, if the prescription is for that person then they certainly are a customer, but if the person is the patient’s...
by John Finey | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog
In the next few lines I am probably going to show myself up as a bit of a chicken, and certainly demonstrate a dubious taste in ‘music’. I have been reminded over the last couple of days of a ‘song’ (if you have heard it you will know why I have written it as ‘song’)...
by John Finey | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
Is it me or are we getting angrier? Actually thinking about it, it’s probably more accurate to say more irritable and less able to control that irritation. Crime figures and other related statistics seem to show that we are becoming a less aggressive society...
by John Finey | Mar 13, 2015 | Blog
It’s Red Nose Day and today is a day to be genuinely proud to be British. Last year’s Sport Relief raised £71.8m, that’s almost exactly £1 for every man, woman and child in the country, pretty amazing considering we are just emerging from one of the deepest and...