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The link between supply and service is our history and our future. This link is a crucial element of the established, trusted service model of community pharmacy – namely convenient, face-to-face care from health care professionals, locally responsive and community based.

‘We have unique strengths and deliver immensely valuable benefits to patients, communities and the NHS. The network of local pharmacies must remain the beating heart of pharmaceutical care in the community.’

Are you doing enough to safeguard your cyber security?

Martin Astbury is a community pharmacist who works in England and Wales, currently for Morrisons Pharmacy, and was first elected to the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) when it was still a regulator as well as a professional body. In 2006 he was the chair of the RPSGB Health Act working group that helped stave off dangerous proposals to changes to the…

‘Even more in this age of increasing automation and digitalisation, the face to face relationship between health professionals and patients matters.’

With the summer holiday period in full swing and the flu season around the corner, appropriate training in vaccinations is as vital as ever.

‘A solution to primary care access, pressure lies in liberating the clinical potential of all pharmacists, especially those available without an appointment, in community pharmacies right across the country.’

Hello members, and welcome to the first in a series of blog posts that we'll be running over the course of the next few weeks, to correspond to the NPA's recently issued ‘Core Beliefs’ statement.

Most of us want to enjoy the summer sunshine. But as employers, you will often face the difficult task of dealing with numerous annual leave requests, refusing leave and cancelling pre-approved holidays.

Does there seem to be an epidemic of employees who contract a 24-hour virus on Fridays? Or perhaps who take regular short-term absences when a big sporting event is on?