Boots’ parent company will pay at least $300m to the US government to “resolve allegations” it filled millions of unlawful opioid and controlled substance prescriptions from 2012 to 2023.

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. Kate Bowie joined C+D as ...

The DH has revealed plans to expand the pharmacy RSV vaccine programme by “up to 200 sites in identified target areas” in 2025/26 to “reverse the downward trend” in uptake. Molly Bowcott joined C+D as ...

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. Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital ...

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 ...

The 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.

Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, ...

Along with the long-awaited pharmacy funding deal for 2025/26 came several government commitments on what the sector can expect in the future contract – so what exactly has been pledged? Molly Bowcott ...

A snowballing number of pharmacists who “feel like they're missing out” are willing to fork out thousands for a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) to complete their independent prescribing (IP) ...

Two pharmacists have received sanctions from the GPhC for failing to “provide assurance” that cannabis based medicinal products (CBMP) were “appropriately prescribed” with “adequate” safeguards in ...

Following the announcement of the long-awaited pharmacy funding deal, C+D sets out a timeline of when changes are due to be implemented over the course of the next year… Molly Bowcott joined C+D as a ...

As all newly qualified pharmacists become independent prescribers from 2026, a pharmacy lecturer shares some of the concerns her students have shared as they complete their studies… ...