New Best practice guidance on the sale of medicines for pain relief
The MHRA have updated their Blue Guide on Advertising and Promoting Medicines. The update is to Appendix 4 with new Best Practice guidance on the sale of medicines for pain relief.
Advertising Prescription Only Medicines (POM): Do you know the rules?
Are you advertising Prescription Only Medicines (POM) utilising a prescribing service? Do you know it is illegal to advertise a POM?
Chief Pharmacist New standards as of January
The GPhC has released new standards for the Chief Pharmacist in January 2025. Have you read them? This blog summarises the standards provided. Find them in their entirety here.
Common trends from GPhC inspections carried out in 2024
Now we have started 2025, this blog highlights the common trends identified from GPhC inspections carried out in 2024.
Distance Selling Pharmacies
The GPhC has issued new guidance for distance selling and online pharmacies which came into effect in February 2025.
Pharmacy First
Over the past few years there has been a vast change in the Community Pharmacy landscape. Following a 5 year period of flat funding and increasing running costs there has been an increasing number of pharmacies closing their doors permanently, with 1400 closing since 2017.