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NHS England is expanding pharmacy's role in children's flu vaccination, raising new questions around consent, safeguarding, and PGD frameworks.

The PDA has raised concerns about low pay, abuse, lack of IP training and mistreatment of locum pharmacists across the UK pharmacy sector.

Superdrug has launched a Wegovy pill service at £79 per month through its Online Doctor platform, marketing it as the cheapest option on the high street.

John Bell & Croyden operates a pharmacy at the Wimbledon Championships. C+D visited to see how the team runs a service inside one of sport's biggest events.

A medical college has called for the morning after pill to be sold in ordinary retail shops, not just pharmacies — a direct challenge to the profession's role in EHC supply.

The NPA has renewed calls for pharmacy business rates exemption, citing financial pressure from last year's National Living Wage increases on community contractors.

Lincolnshire's health scrutiny committee has told MPs that community pharmacy provision in the county is increasingly fragile, with rurality making access problems worse.

Price concessions have broken records for the fourth month running. CPE is now calling for a fundamental review of the NHS reimbursement model.

NHS England's new framework recommends oral health training for pharmacists, with a focus on anticipatory care for an ageing population retaining heavily restored teeth.

Over 8 million doses of counterfeit pregabalin were seized by the MHRA across five years, FOI data shows. The regulator says it takes fatal outcome reports linked to fake medicines seriously.

The RSV vaccine programme will expand to more vulnerable adults from September, widening eligibility beyond current groups ahead of the autumn season.

The chair of NHS England says dispensing will become 'unusual' as pharmacists shift toward health advice. Here's what that means for the profession's direction.

Pharmacy numbers in England are falling while patient demand rises. The South East has been named as England's largest pharmacy desert, new research shows.

PDA membership has grown every year for 23 consecutive years, reaching 40,588 members — a record that reflects the profession's appetite for defence support.

Julie Boora and Sahithi Amaravadi founded Tribelle after Boora's own perimenopause experience highlighted the gaps in women's health support — and the stigma that keeps many women from seeking help.

Allied Pharmacies has closed a Somerset branch after prescription volumes proved too low to sustain it. Staff kept their jobs, and no other sites are at risk.

MPs examined government proposals in committee last week to reform how pharmacy services are provided and how appeals in the sector are handled.

Sadik Al-Hassan tells C+D that pharmacy is 'wound up to the point where we're angry no matter what' — and argues the government was never obliged to make owners happy.

A superintendent pharmacist received a GPhC formal warning after an inspection found medicines supplied without valid prescriptions and compounding carried out without proper supervision.

Community pharmacy cannot use political transition as an excuse for delay, Chemist+Druggist argues, as Starmer's government sets NHS priorities.