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Community pharmacy needs to adopt a similar approach to hospital pharmacy whereby dispensing is undertaken by support staff and dispensing robots following a clinical check of the prescription by the pharmacist, according to independent think-tank The Smith Institute

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association has expressed concern over Asda’s decision to change its contract with locum pharmacists. From today (24 April 2009), any locum pharmacists who want to work for Asda will have to agree to the new terms and conditions before doing so

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association and many of the candidates who have put their names forward in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s national pharmacy board elections (2010) are concerned that one pharmacist may soon be permitted to assume responsible pharmacist status for more than one pharmacy premises — so-called “remote supervision”

The Department of Health’s decision not to delay the responsible pharmacist regulations was unduly influenced by the interests of large employers, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association has claimed

Pharmacy services in England will be commissioned by a new NHS commissioning board and primary care trusts and strategic health authorities will be abolished under the Government’s much speculated upon plans to reform the NHS, published today (12 July 2010)

The British Medical Association in Scotland has urged the Scottish Government to halt decision making on community pharmacy contracts following the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee’s decision to investigate a public petition that called for a review of the process

Sainsbury’s has declared that none of its pharmacies is to be used as an antiviral collection point during the swine influenza pandemic

Community pharmacists should regard themselves as the “accessible clinician on the high street” rather than the “scientist on the high street”, said Bill Scott, chief pharmaceutical officer for Scotland. He was speaking during a 2009 British Pharmaceutical Conference session involving representatives of the four UK health departments

In the debates leading to the establishment of a new professional body for pharmacy there can be little doubt that the most contentious issue is who should be allowed to be a member and who should not. But the debates so far have, understandably, focused mainly on the situation as it exists today