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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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RPS election results announced

Turnout increased slightly but membership numbers continue to fall.

22 May 2024

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I am standing for the RPS English Pharmacy Board. This is why

Ankish Patel, chief pharmacist and head of PCN Workforce Nottingham City GP Alliance, explains why he is a candidate.

10 May 2024

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RPS membership numbers drop again

According to the Society’s 2023 Annual Report, there were a total of 37,474 members at the end of 2023 compared with 38,193 in 2022.

09 May 2024

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UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board meetings underway

Three-year programme to improve collaboration across the UK pharmacy professional leadership bodies and specialist professional groups gets underway.

07 May 2024

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PDA: Pharmacy professional leadership board must publish more details about members

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association wants information about organisations members are associated and involved with to be published.

22 Apr 2024

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Three community pharmacy representatives appointed to UK leadership board

Expert members announced ahead of first meeting on April 23.

11 Apr 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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PDA repeats call for CQC to regulate pharmacy premises

Non-pharmacist business owners should also be regulated, he told MPs at an evidence session for the parliamentary pharmacy inquiry.

18 Jan 2024

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Professional Leadership Advisory Board launches and chair announced

Sir Hugh Taylor, who has held senior roles in the Department of Health and Social Care and Cabinet Office, is the Board’s independent chair.

23 Oct 2023

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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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What is eating community pharmacy for breakfast?

Pharmacy needs to wake up to the culture problem on its doorstep, Ade Williams writes

11 Oct 2023

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Leadership commission lacks transparency and makes slow progress

Royal Pharmaceutical Society chief executive Paul Bennett and president Claire Anderson have criticised the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership.

08 Sep 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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