Health & NHS

Greater Manchester LPC completes a UK community pharmacy first with the appointment of a director of pharmacy transformation.

The Oral Health Foundation reinforces the need for more recognition of mouth cancer during Mouth Cancer Action Month.

PHE is collaborating with the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments to produce the first UK-wide clinical guidelines for alcohol misuse.

Flu vaccinations offered in 189 pharmacies in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.

The Help Us Help You winter campaign returns and distribution of campaign materials has begun.

CPNI welcomes MPs' call for ‘sustainable funding’ for pharmacies in Northern Ireland.

Deputy chief pharmaceutical officer Bruce Warner said CPCS is a “step change” in the way people access community pharmacists.

The DHSC announced the last drug price concessions list for October on the final day of the month.

The employers behind a second pharmacy apprenticeship proposal have identified themselves.

The number of under 65s suffering strokes is "rising dramatically" but most people still believe it mainly occurs among the elderly.

More vaccinations should be provided in convenient locations for parents to drive uptake, says a new NHS review.

The DHSC has announced the first wave of drug price concessions for October.

The Government is to roll out the electronic prescription service (EPS) across England from November.

CPNI chief Gerard Greene urges policymakers in Northern Ireland to place greater emphasis on community pharmacy.

The Independent Pharmacy Awards at the House of Commons celebrated the role of pharmacy teams across the UK.

Obesity is costing each UK citizen an additional £409 a year in taxes and cutting their life expectancy by 2.7 years, according to an OECD report.

Access to care and staffing issues pose challenges across all care settings, the Care Quality Commission has said.

LloydsPharmacy and London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust are running mobile gastroenterology units. 

More than 130,000 breast cancer deaths in the UK have been avoided in the last 30 years, according to a new Cancer Research UK analysis.

Four types of prescription-only Zantac have been recalled by the MHRA as a precautionary measure.