The RPS has urged pharmacy employers to help trainee pharmacists prepare for the March registration assessment.

Boris Johnson has been urged to ensure health workers are protected from new strains of Covid.

The GPhC has caved in to demands to allow overseas registration assessment candidates to sit the exam online irrespective of time differences. 

Making the contraceptive pill available over the counter will increase access and “enable women to make an informed choice" says RPS.

RPS chief pharmacist Gino Martini has called on the government to immediately de-list DNP products. 

Sixty-five community pharmacy-led vaccination sites have this week become part of the coronavirus vaccination programme in England.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society wants to know if its membership base is representative of the profession as a whole. 

Both the National Pharmacy Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society have begun celebrations for key milestones.

The RPS says it believes provisional registrants should be able to take the assessment remotely.

Government under intense criticism for failing to deploy England’s community pharmacy network to help deliver Covid vaccinations on a wide scale.

Sandra Gidley says pharmacists have “enormous role” in giving patients confidence to take Covid-19 vaccines.

Pharmacy is undergoing a mental health crisis and one way to sort it out is to tackle the issue of funding, says PM deputy editor Arthur Walsh.

The GPhC has approved the new standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists.

Pharmacies must continue to have the enhanced access to patient data that has been available to them during the Covid-19 pandemic, sector bodies have said.

Pharmacy figures met the government to discuss proposals allowing pharmacists to change prescriptions.

Community pharmacy teams must receive the Covid-19 vaccination at the same time as other health professionals, the RPS has said.

RPS president Sandra Gidley calls Poundland “irresponsible” for its multi-buy offer on paracetamol.

The government has extended the visas of thousands more overseas health workers including pharmacists.

BPA president Elsy Gomez Campos warns pharmacy is hindered by a “deep-rooted denial” of racial inequality.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s recent report on the role of pharmacy in mental health and wellbeing has been criticised for not going far enough in providing practical support for pharmacists, says Jeremy Holmes