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Even within the Community Pharmacy setting, pharmacists work in a wide range of professional environments and operations. If you are wanting to take on a Superintendent Pharmacist role what experience do you have? Have you had wide or narrow exposure to different ways...

Wholesalers are not immune to identity theft. Of late there has been reports of rogue companies setting up fake websites and bank accounts and using a legitimate company’s wholesale dealer’s authorisation to ‘successfully’ run a wholesaling operation. The use of a...

The London’s city wide flu scheme has been given the green light for a third year, the LMC are waiting to see the detail of the scheme before they decide how best to work with pharmacies in the city. If you are in the city and you want to offer the service, ensure...

When the new law comes into force, GPhC fitness-to-practise committees will have the power to disqualify premises from being used as a pharmacy. The scope of the GPhC’s powers will in future extend to non-pharmacy premises, which might include warehouses or premises...

The deadline for the completion of the IG toolkit has passed and as contractors you should have completed the annual declaration. The next task is to prepare the annual NHS complaints report for the year – ending 31 March 2016. If you need help with the report the...

The hub-and-spoke model is not going away and it is a major threat to retail pharmacy and even if the legal barriers for operating a hub are removed there will not be a “level playing field” however it would give the independent pharmacies across the UK a wider choice...

Earlier in the year, the GPhC called on Pharmacy2U to take urgent steps to improve its service levels, after it failed to deliver prescriptions over Christmas. Pharmacy2U had been experiencing "unforeseen difficulties" with its move to a new...

Internet pharmacies partly owned by GPs, sharing patient data or indeed any pharmacy sharing patient data when partially owned by GPs.If you have an internet pharmacy you must ensure that your procedures are robust enough on the website to allow patients to provide...

Mr Trump has suggested that he was the only candidate capable of uniting the UK pharmacy profession, adding: “If those clowns in the Department of Health can’t get their policies right, you can count on Donald J Trump to make you proud of your profession again.” It is...

We have a wealth of EU/EEA pharmacists working in the UK, who have obtained a recognised pharmacy degree and qualified as pharmacists within their country of birth. They are a valuable asset to the profession. The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) manages...

Are you a Superintendent Pharmacist? Have you undergone any training? Do you know what is required of you in your current role? Are you ready for an inspection by NHS England or GPhC? Could you defend yourself if your professional practice or the practices of your...