C+D (Chemist+Druggist)

1 day ago | chemistanddruggist.co.uk | Kate Bowie

HomeRevealed: Which areas have lost the most pharmacies? New data analysis has revealed the locations of English and Welsh “pharmacy deserts” – the areas worst hit by the more than a thousand pharmacy closures over the last decade. The Lib Dems claimed  "these pharmacy deserts [have] become normalised"

2 days ago | chemistanddruggist.co.uk | Kate Bowie

HomePSNI hikes fees 20% after flunking record number of standards The Northern Irish pharmacy regulator has confirmed plans to increase annual fees to £477, weeks after the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) “identified weaknesses in multiple [of its] regulatory functions”. “We appreciate the increase in retention fee will not be welcomed by...pharmacists”

2 days ago | chemistanddruggist.co.uk | Ben Lee

HomeNewspaper rapped over article promoting MounjaroThe medicines regulator has upheld a complaint that an article naming UK sources of weight loss drug supply breached advertising regulations banning the promotion of POMs to the public. The Scotsman article published on January 29 has now been removed

3 days ago | chemistanddruggist.co.uk | Kate Bowie

Home‘Anti-competitive’ contract favours bricks-and-mortars, DSPs protest Some 25 complaints have been submitted to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) arguing that the new pharmacy contract is “anti-competitive”, C+D has learned. exclusiveThe complaint urged the CMA to "recommend a pause or reversal of the restriction"

1 week ago | chemistanddruggist.co.uk | Kate Bowie

HomeContractors to receive April and May SAF uplift ‘sooner’ Contractors will reap the benefits of the increased single activity fee (SAF) without having to wait 60 days from the end of April and May, Community Pharmacy England (CPE) has announced. “What would your message to the government be in reaction to this deal?”