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Northern Ireland to make paper prescriptions ‘a thing of the past’

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Upcoming workforce plan must recognise pharmacy teams are essential to neighbourhood healthcare

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Weight-loss pills will be easier to counterfeit than jabs, MPs hear

Call for a national vaccination framework to standardise jab delivery

Three Ebola vaccines under development to target central African outbreak

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Independent thinking on the pharmacy contract

4th June 2026

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'Let’s make a societal shift towards ending smoking for good'

5th May 2026

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How luxury pharmacy is run in a leading London store

27th April 2026

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Seamless patient care - across the professional divide

16th April 2026

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Last chance to register for pharmacy conference where leaders discuss new contract

5th June 2026

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Independent thinking on the pharmacy contract

4th June 2026

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Drug price concessions hit record high for third consecutive month

4th June 2026

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Exclusive: CPE pushes for new service caps to avoid ‘over commissioning’ draining the contract sum

4th June 2026

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Premises renewals to be shifted into myGPhC portal

3rd June 2026

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ARRS pharmacy technician numbers fall for the first time since 2024

2nd June 2026

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Pharmacy teams ‘key’ to preventing harm from dependence on OTC medicines

2nd June 2026

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Two arrested in connection with seizure of 12,000 doses of unlicensed weight-loss drugs

2nd June 2026

Crescent Pharma issue third blood pressure medication recall

Safety warnings for psychiatric and sexual side-effects issued for two drugs by MHRA

Community pharmacy £340m contract funding boost ‘significant’ but not enough

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Northern Ireland to make paper prescriptions ‘a thing of the past’

Upcoming workforce plan must recognise pharmacy teams are essential to neighbourhood healthcare

Hay fever 101: what pharmacist need to know about pollen

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Weight-loss pills will be easier to counterfeit than jabs, MPs hear

Call for a national vaccination framework to standardise jab delivery

Three Ebola vaccines under development to target central African outbreak

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