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Keeping an eye on things: eye health problems

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Eye health problems, even if common and easily treatable, can cause all kinds of irritation and affect quality of life. Sasa Jankovic finds out more about them

Premises design: Less is more in choosing the colour of your pharmacy

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Colour will colour the first impression your premises make on customers

Have your say on GPhC’s far-reaching consultation on premises standards

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago
A GPhC consultation could change the daily lives of every pharmacist. Heidi Wright, RPS English practice and policy lead, invites RPS members to inform the Society’s response

Quit Kit campaign hailed success this year

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

This year’s NHS Quit Kit smoking cessation campaign in England has been heralded a success by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating...

Troubled Ben Venue formally ceases manufacture for series of drugs

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Troubled US-based Ben Venue Laboratories will be removed as a manufacturing site from the marketing authorisations (MAs)...

Slow release exenatide one of three drugs approved by NICE

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago
Prolonged-release exenatide (Bydureon; Eli Lilly) has been approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence today...

Scotland’s pharmacy and GP bodies make joint working pledge

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Better joint working and increased communication between community pharmacists and GPs has been pledged in Scotland...

Warning over contamination of Pakistan-made drug Isotab

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Travellers who have been prescribed the Pakistan-made heart drug Isotab 20mg (Isosorbide mononitrate), batch number J093, are advised to stop...

Limited shingles vaccine stocks available privately to over 50s

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

A limited stock of the shingles vaccine Zostavax is available from pharmacies by private prescription only — despite recommendations...

Pharmacist interventions prevent common GP prescribing errors

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Pharmacist-led interventions can substantially reduce common medication errors and are cost-effective, according to the results of a study...

Prostate cancer drug abiraterone approved for use in Wales

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Abiraterone (Zytiga) has been approved by the All Wales Medicine Strategy Group for use within NHS Wales...

Pharmacists call for meeting with PM to discuss reforms

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Pharmacists are pushing for an exclusive meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron and his team of health advisers to discuss the role...

Chance to showcase profession’s influence in diamond jubilee BBC radio show

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Pharmacists are being invited to nominate who they think should go down in history as having made the greatest impact on pharmacy in the...

Pharmacy Voice gives NHS Prescription Services six months to "get a grip"

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

NHS Prescription Services has been given a six month ultimatum by Pharmacy Voice to deal with errors made by the automated...

Pharmacist receives two-month suspension for practising while not registered

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Practising while not registered has led to a pharmacist being suspended from the Register for two months, by order of the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Failure to inform Registrar of caution results in pharmacist's six-month suspension

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

A pharmacist who accepted a police caution for the unlawful possession of cocaine and who failed to inform the Registrar of the fact has been suspended from the Register for six months, by order of the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Locum pharmacist suspended for two months after photocopying confidential information

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Photocopying confidential financial information relating to the pharmacy where he worked as a locum has led to the suspension of a pharmacist from the Register for two months, by order of the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Suicide linked to illness not medicines

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

Fluoxetine and venlafaxine decrease suicidal thoughts and behaviour in adults and the elderly and do not increase the risk in young people...

False medicines use review claims lead to 12-month suspension for pharmacist

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

A pharmacist has been suspended from the Register for 12 months by order of the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council after making false claims for medicines use reviews that were not undertaken.

Six-month suspension for pharmacist after failing to inform regulator of caution for theft

PJ Online - 4 hours 33 min ago

A pharmacist who received a police caution for theft but failed to inform the regulator has been suspended from the Register for six months by order of the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

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