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Grassroots lobbying can get politicians to listen

Everyone's voice counts in pharmacy – so make politicians listen, writes Shilpa Shah

01 Apr 2025

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Are you a manager – or a leader?

Manager or leader? To be successful you'll need a bit of both

26 Feb 2025

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The times they are a-changin’

The RPS should stop navel-gazing and grapple with the real challenges facing pharmacists

24 Feb 2025

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We must all say no to working for free

Pharmacy must cut back on free work and act as one - the way GPs do

15 Aug 2024

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Our negotiators must move past a decade of poor performance

With pharmacies paying an extra £1.5m for CPE, better results are needed

09 Aug 2024

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Outsider: What’s in a name?

Reports of the recently rebranded IPA have Outsider reaching for his beer...

12 Jun 2024

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Why won’t the RPS come clean about its membership?

If the Society wants to be more transparent, why is it still so guarded on membership numbers?

24 May 2024

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Pharmacy’s acronym addiction

An ever-growing list of buzzwords and acronyms won't be enough to save pharmacy

11 Apr 2024

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Visions and revisions

What to make of the Nuffield Trust/King's Fund 'vision' for pharmacy?

13 Oct 2023

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Outsider: A month of victories?

Outsider awaits the outcome of CPE's talks with our departmental overlords

03 Aug 2023

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Why culture is king

The provision of high quality clinical services is transforming community pharmacy. But how do you promote the right culture to sustain an overall focus on quality improvement within your practice?

01 Aug 2023

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Those in power must combat bias within and without

Women in the workplace are still coming up against ingrained assumptions

13 Mar 2023

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Motivation at work: Incentives are not the whole story

Understanding what drives people is essential if they are to achieve their full potential and help drive business performance

01 Mar 2023

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Turning point

As he reflects on the old year and welcomes in the new, our anonymous correspondent looks forward to the sector’s point of inflection

01 Jan 2023

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Apathy, antibiotics and axioms

"It is not axiomatic that an absence in provision of pharmaceutical services should result in the granting of a new contract"

09 Dec 2022

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