‘No other option’: Knights Pharmacy gets security guards and
17 Jun 2022. • ByEmily Stearn. Knights Pharmacy has introduced security guards and a “support guardian” to offer counselling to staff, after witnessing a “steep rise” in abuse directed at its pharmacy teams. Knights superintendent Mo Kolia: "Our staff are so scared that unfortunately we had no other option".
UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched today
Feb 1, 2024 · Home. UK’s first private pharmacy COVID-19 vaccine service launched today. 01 Feb 2024. • By Kate Bowie. Community pharmacies are set to pioneer the UK’s first private COVID-19 vaccinations, C+D has learned. exclusive. “For the first-time ever" patients can "pop into their local independent pharmacy to get a private COVID jab".
At a glance: How do locum rates vary across Great Britain?
Feb 16, 2024 · Data collected by C+D’s annual Salary Survey in 2023 this week revealed that the average hourly rate for locums across Great Britain was £31.67 – down from £33.30 the previous year. Click the play button on the interactive chart below to discover how the average locum rate in each local area has changed between 2020 and 2023, according to ...
GPhC proposes ‘one route’ for overseas pharmacist ... - C+D
Aug 6, 2024 · The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) will develop a “one route” one-year process for pharmacists trained overseas to register in Great Britain following “feedback” on its previous proposals, it announced today (August 6). The regulator said that the new process would “include both university study and in-practice training” …
Podcast: My life as a serial entrepreneur pharmacy owner
28 Mar 2024. • ByJo Shorthouse. In the latest episode of the A Coffee With... podcast series, co-owner of four independent pharmacies Sobha Sharma Kandel tells C+D about her path to entrepreneurship and the importance of community pharmacy for people facing barriers to healthcare. "Compromise is needed in order to achieve success,” Kandel says.
Chemist+Druggist | Community pharmacy news, analysis and CPD …
3 days ago · 07 Oct 2024. • By Malcolm Brown. In early 2025, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) will ask members and fellows whether they wish it to be renamed the Royal College of Pharmacy. Two-thirds must agree. My vote, presently, is …
How to optimise the COVID-19 vaccination service in your …
Oct 24, 2023 · While pharmacies that deliver both a COVID-19 and a flu jab to a patient in a single appointment will be a paid a “double-jab” fee of £17.12, NHS England (NHSE) has this year reduced the fee for COVID-19 jabs by a whopping 25%, in a move that Community Pharmacy England (CPE) says “defies logic”. Indeed, Ms Bennett says that her team ...
3-minute briefing: Key findings from C+D’s crimes in pharmacies ...
Apr 20, 2022 · Following the launch of C+D’s #NoExcuseForAbuse campaign calling for ringfenced funding for security measures in pharmacy, we present all the essential findings of our crimes in pharmacies investigation.
Private pharmacy RSV and dengue fever vaccine services launch in …
Oct 15, 2023 · Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.
Everything pharmacy teams need to know about integrated care …
Dec 12, 2022 · Everything pharmacy teams need to know about integrated care systems. 12 Dec 2022. • ByJulie Cook. Do you know your integrated care board (ICB) from your integrated care system (ICS) or your integrated care partnership (ICP)? Previously pharmacists were employed within CCGs – so now what?