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Ex-RPS president appointed non-executive director of trust

Ash Soni has been appointed non-executive director of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Community pharmacies across Northern Ireland have administered more than 35,000 Covid vaccines in the six weeks since the roll-out began.

Walgreens Boots Alliance co-chief operating officer Alex Gourlay is to step down in Mid-May, according to a Bloomberg report.

Provisional data from the Office for National Statistics revealed a 19.6 per cent rise in deaths last year compared with 2019.

The NHS is writing to 44 pharmacies in England over their 'unexpectedly' high payment claims for delivering medicines during the pandemic.

The NHS Confederation’s Health and Care Women Leaders Network found “a significant rise” in female staff reporting poor health.

Boots and Cegedim have struck a new five-year digital services deal.

The Taskforce for Lung Health is aiming to raise awareness of the launch of its Lung Health Data Tracker.

Some batches of Syonell 250mg and 500mg gastro-resistant tablets have product packaging information errors.

Work on a large-scale dispensing hub for independent pharmacies is to start “immediately,” HubRx has said.

Preventative HIV medicine should be available from community pharmacies, NHS England chief Simon Stevens has been told.

Many more people could benefit from blood pressure-lowering medication, according to a new study in the Lancet.

Dispensing GPs prescribe in ways that are "consistent with a profit motive," a report finds.

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a robbery at a pharmacy in Portadown on Wednesday morning (April 28).

NICE has recommended the use of auto-injectable MS drug ofatumumab on the NHS.

Eighty-eight per cent of candidates sitting the online registration assessment in March achieved a pass, the GPhC announced this morning.

The first peak of the Covid pandemic last year saw a 300 per cent rise in healthcare workers suffering from mental health problems.

The PDA said it is “extremely concerned and disappointed” by the conclusions of the Sewell Report into racial inequality.

The Department of Health and Social Care has said pharmacists may substitute Evorel and Estraderm for Estradot 75mcg patches.

Over a third of people (34.4 per cent) reported a change in their drinking habits over the last year.