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People living in socially deprived areas of Scotland are more likely to experience life-threatening complications of type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.

Some medicines are already becoming unavailable in Northern Ireland because of the Brexit protocol, an industry spokesperson has said.

Boris Johnson said people could take a pill at home to reduce the symptoms of Covid or stop them getting it.

100mg tablets found in sealed packs of trimethoprim 200mg 

The Scottish National Party has said that if it wins the May 6 election it will create a state-owned pharmaceutical agency.

The Professional Standards Authority is unlikely to publish a report into the GPhC's performance “before late in the year".

Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann has announced his support for a service commissioning plan for community pharmacies in 2021-22. 

Data on medicines prescribed and administered in hospitals will be collected as part of research into patients' Covid care.

Only 'standard' 125 and 200ml packs to be included in Tariff in the future - all other sizes to be de-listed.

Avicenna has acquired the largest independent pharmacy group in Wales to take its total number of branches to 135.

Over 90 per cent of community pharmacies in England have signed up to provide a new Covid-19 test distribution service, the Government has said.

Men aged 40 years and over and at risk of type 2 diabetes will be targeted by a series of adverts on Facebook.

NICE is promising to speed up patients’ access to the latest and most effective treatments as part of its new five-year strategy.

PureGym has joined forces with a Midlands-based pharmacy group to administer Covid vaccines.

Pregnant women should get a Covid-19 vaccine based on their age and clinical risk group.

The GPhC is disproportionately tough on individual registrants compared to pharmacy owners and premises, the PDA has claimed. 

A dramatic reduction in the size of the OTC cough and cold market during the pandemic could become a long-term trend, the PAGB has warned. 

The British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA) has launched an educational series for community pharmacy teams on how to discuss cancer.

The family of a pharmacist who died from Covid have set up a fund to build classrooms in impoverished areas of Pakistan.  

GPhC chief Duncan Rudkin says an internal review of what went wrong leading up to the March exam is under way.