Community pharmacy

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• Undervalued!
• One-sided advice
• Why is EPS prescription transfer so slow?
• No future for community pharmacy
• Claiming NCSO retrospectively
• Endorse what has been supplied
• 28-day packaging is the way forward
• Why do we allow multiple small packs dispensing?
• Endorsing pack sizes
• Confusion over chlorhexidine gluconate
• Falling rates
• Funding issue
• Dispensing episode
• We do not need further delivery delays
• Bad professional judgement
• “Appropriate date” on FP10 MDA prescriptions
• Don’t forget to check for allergies
• How funding was obtained
• Making it feel real
• A fourth stage of GP-community pharmacist relationship building
• Let us galvanise members
• A con of the first order
• Lack of dosage instructions
• Robbing Peter to pay Peter
• Domiciliary MURs: our experience in Croydon
• Going downhill
• Overuse of “take as directed”
• Why so few want to prescribe
• Labelling instructions
• Why I choose to stock e-cigarettes
• Similar packaging mix-ups
• Self-selection is a mistake
• Additional prescribing safeguards needed
• Too late
• Lack of training and advice
• Refer your own prescriptions to colleagues
• Poor boy of the NHS
• Dosing instructions
• Time to review some unacceptable situations
• How will we react?
• A dark cloud over students
• Pharmacist prescribers dispensing prescriptions
• Are two inhalers really necessary?
• Service undermines efforts of clinicians
• Take back control
• Doxylamine succinate
• Misinterpreting instructions
• Smell of tomcat
• Cash chemists always and forever?
• Postgraduate training programmes
• Open the door!
• Cutting payments for vital service runs real risks of reduced safety
• Global standardisation
• Complete abstinence and harm reduction for smokers
• Tamper-proof seals
• Contrary conclusion
• Managing addiction to OTC painkillers
• Not marginalising the LGBT community
• Storm brewing in community pharmacy
• Slippery slope
• Stop mindlessly selling OTC chloramphenicol
• Target all men rather than marginalise some
• The “locum test”
• Make prescription-only medicines exempt from VAT
• An experiment in need of evaluating
• Difficulty changing visas for international students
• Pay anomaly between sectors to be amended
• Official input is highly valued
• Meaningless whitewash
• Disappointing community pharmacy experience
• There are no retrospective payments made
• Internecine bickering
• Private partnerships with the NHS
• Homecare services designed to meet needs
• Monthly statement needed
• The crossword will have to wait until the evening
• Undermining other locums
• Pharmacists should write formularies
• Every little bit may not help
• Operating at a loss
• Real efficiency gains
• Greater choice for patients
• The NMS is not working
• Drop in locum rates a short-sighted mistake
• Gluten-free foods - Why should the taxpayer have to pay?
• Gluten-free foods - Misunderstandings about supply and nature of gluten-free products
• The importance of the pharmacist clinical check
• Pharmacy ownership - Options to consider