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Recycling

The editor answers some of the questions still being posed online about professional leadership and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

27 Aug 2022

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Supply, demand, consequences

Pharmacies shut when they should be open. Patients in tears. It’s time to serve Breach Notices on repeat offenders

09 Aug 2022

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Audit shows community pharmacy's value

Jeremy Meader says community pharmacy teams have yet again shown their capability in the face of continued pressure

07 Aug 2022

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Consequentials

The spat between organisations about who's worsening the workforce crisis is unedifying, but there's more at stake.

04 Aug 2022

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Sorry. It's worse

I got it wrong about the Review Steering Group’s proposals for the future representation of pharmacy contractors ion England

07 Jul 2022

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You can't miss it, can you?

The Great British Summer. Tennis on the TV, not football. Meat sizzling on the barbecue. If you’re lucky, the quintessential sound of willow on leather…

07 Jul 2022

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If I was an ICS chief pharmacist...

Bedminster Pharmacy’s Ade Williams says collaboration and communication with community pharmacists will be top of the agenda when he is in charge

27 Jun 2022

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Action to match ambition required

CCA chief executive Malcolm Harrison says the answer to the health secretary’s ‘four Ps’ of reform is a fifth – pharmacy

27 Jun 2022

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Get the right things right

It’s time to be as proud of non-competence as we are of competence

21 Jun 2022

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Time for a rethink

The world of hub and spoke has moved on, says Centred Solutions sales and marketing director Louise Laban

21 Jun 2022

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Unignorable

I was going to write about something else, then the Fuller Stocktake report popped into my Inbox

20 Jun 2022

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Anatomy of a speech: David Webb

Reading between the lines of England’s new chief pharmacist's first big speech

10 Jun 2022

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Waste of time

Twitter changes nothing. It’s action in the real world that counts. Here are three things that could be fixed tomorrow

05 May 2022

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A lost ambition

The Editor has no regrets about trying to explain what a Royal College is on Twitter.

05 May 2022

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A bleak house

Reflecting on the profession's Dickensian roots, Outsider suggests that leadership in pharmacy is going the same way as the legacy in Jarndyce and Jarndyce

04 May 2022

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Building the best defence

As Covid-19 restrictions come to an end, Jeremy Meader takes a realistic view of what the future holds for community pharmacy

04 May 2022

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