Pharmacist raises almost £90,000 for Gaza humanitarian aid
A Manchester-based pharmacist has raised almost £90,000 to help provide aid in Gaza since the war broke out last month.
Dr Mahendra Patel says pharmacists can tackle patient misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines by reassuring them about safety concerns
#CovidVaccines
@drmahendrapatel
"Pharmacists are highly trained professionals and it’s insulting to make them phone me for permission to dispense two 50mg tablets because the 100mg isn’t available," says GP
@tonihazellgp
in her first C+D blog, on the "serious shortage protocol"
Congratulations to the winner of the Health Initiative of the Year award – sponsored by
@pharmadoctoruk
– Alphega Pharmacy😊! Via the ProLongevity “Live Healthy for Longer” Diabetes Prevention Service, Alphega helps patients with lifestyle changes.
@ManorPharmacyGP
#CDAwards
BREAKING:
@BootsUK
to offer newly qualified pharmacists £42k from August
@BootsUK
has agreed to offer a starting salary of £42,000 to newly qualified pharmacists joining the multiple on a full-time basis from August, following negotiations with
@the_pda
LIVE: Pharmacist trainees protest outside
@TheGPhC
HQ after exam chaos
Join C+D for live updates as a group of trainee pharmacists gather outside
@TheGPhC
headquarters in Canary Wharf, east London to protest over the most recent exam issues
Does the move towards online ordering of medicines spell the end for the traditional community
#pharmacy
model – or could it offer new ways to survive in a digital world? C+D explores...
#InternetPharmacyWeek
@AmazonUK
BREAKING: Community pharmacies in England have administered more than 1.7 million flu vaccines in less than two months, breaking last year’s record.
Full story to follow on C+D soon!
BREAKING: Petition attracts over 1,200 signatures and protest call after
@TheGPhC
exam chaos
A petition highlighting several concerns following
@TheGPhC
registration assessment has attracted more than 1,200 signatures and culminated in calls for protest
Open letter to
@MattHancock
: Sector's exclusion from COVID-19 life cover is a disgrace
C+D editor
@CandDBeth
asks: "What is community pharmacy's role at this time if not essential and lifesaving?"
BREAKING:
@DHSCgovuk
has issued the first "serious shortage protocol", giving pharmacists the ability to supply an alternative strength or form of
#fluoxetine
without having to contact the patient’s GP
Read the full story:
#MedicineShortagesWeek
#pharmacy
BREAKING: C+D (in collaboration with
@PharmaSupport
and backed by
@KevinBarronMP
) will be heading to the Houses of Parliament on September 9 to highlight the growing pressures on pharmacists.
Happy
#Pharmacy24
to all the amazing pharmacy professionals who go above and beyond every day, but none more so than in the past 12 months.
The C+D team salute you and all you do
#pharmacyheroes
#COVID19
👏🙏👍💪
Community pharmacists have refused to condemn junior doctors for taking strike action this week, despite the increase in workload they have experienced as a result.
@TheBMA
@adewilliamsnhs
@hcsanews
@the_pda
Congratulations to the winner of the Independent Pharmacy of the Year award – sponsored by C+D – Fferyllwyr Llyn Cyf😊! The pharmacy has trained its pharmacists as independent prescribers and enrolled them on a minor illness course at Bangor University.
@FferyllwyrLlyn
#CDAwards
BREAKING: Former
@rpharms
membership director to join
@PSNCNews
Robbie Turner has been appointed to
@PSNCNews
as its chief transformation officer to oversee an overhaul to pharmacy representation in England
The government should suspend the
#NHS
prescription charge for medicines to help pharmacy teams care for patients during the
#COVID19
outbreak, says Liberal Democrat MP
@LaylaMoran
BREAKING: "Increased likelihood" of
@BootsUK
pharmacists taking "industrial action", after
@the_pda
members "overwhelmingly" reject multiple's latest pay offer, union says
More to follow on the C+D website...
#pharmacy
#pay
Congratulations to the winner of the COVID HERO – OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL award, sponsored by
@Teva_UK
, Sally Farmer,
@DayLewisGroup
! The award honours a person who has gone the extra mile to help their patients and community during the pandemic. Congrats!
#CDAwards
BREAKING: Pharmacies in England have administered almost 2.9 million flu jabs so far, breaking the 2020/21 total in just two months
Story to follow on C+D...
#flujab
#pharmacy
"A child’s visit to my pharmacy ended with diabetes diagnosis"
As we mark
#DiabetesPreventionWeek
, here's a fab tale of how
@SiobhanMcNulty4
spotted the signs of type 1 diabetes in a 12-year-old & got him the treatment he needed
#pharmacy
‘My pharmacy’s private minor illness clinic is making £8k a month’
Eager to put his prescribing skills to use, Faheem Ahmed set up a private minor illness clinic in his Oxford pharmacy and today it brings in an extra £8,000 a month.
GPhC appoints new FtP and pharmacy inspections executive leads
The
#pharmacy
regulator has appointed two new executive-level members of staff to lead as its chief pharmacy officer and chief enforcement officer, it has revealed.
@TheGPhC
@Roz_Gittins
Massive congratulations to the winner of our Community Pharmacist of the Year award – sponsored by
@Teva_UK
– Jackie Lewis from Lewis Pharmacy! Jackie has, through her pharmacy, worked to support patients diagnosed with cancer. Congratulations on the win, Jackie😊.
#CDAwards
BREAKING:
@TheGPhC
has announced a pass rate of 88.2% for those sitting the March 2021 registration assessment.
More to follow on the C+D website
#pharmacy
#prereg
#provreg
Insulin found in fake Ozempic and Saxenda injection pens has led to patients being hospitalised with hypoglycaemic shock,
@MHRAgovuk
the medicines watchdog has revealed.
Read:
#Ozempic
#Saxenda
A big congratulations to the winner of the 2020 Business Innovation Award – sponsored by C+D – Fferyllwyr Llyn Cyf😊! This independent pharmacy developed an acute conditions service allowing patients to be treated without the need for a GP appointment.
@FferyllwyrLlyn
#CDAwards
We want thank all the pharmacists that spoke at our Bradford careers evening and the
@UniofBradford
for hosting us.
It was a fantastic night of networking and talks, thanks to everyone who join us on the night or on Facebook live
#CDcareers
A Boots pharmacist has worked with the Department of Health and Social Care (DH) to translate a video explaining the role of the NHS test and trace programme into Punjabi.
@Gurinder_Singh1
@PharmacyHour
Congrats to the winner of the Pre-Registration Graduate of the Year award – sponsored by
@discoverRB
– Yasmine Haq
@Knightspharmacy
! Yasmine has taken the lead in ensuring new medicine service consultations are completed, among other support for the pharmacy team.
#CDAwards
Congrats to the winner of the Pharmacy Staff Member of the Year Award – sponsored by Ceuta Healthcare – Kate Grant from Lloydspharmacy😊! Kate has supported patients to quit smoking and helped homeless patients. Congratulations Kate😊!
@LloydsPharmacy
@ceutagroup
#CDAwards
‘Why the pre-reg exam had to be deferred during the
#COVID19
outbreak’
Deferring the June and September pharmacy pre-reg exams was the only viable option for candidates during the pandemic, says
@khalidqkhan
A pharmacist participating in an initiative to vaccinate housebound patients against
#Covid19
has told C+D it’s “the most rewarding thing I’ve done in my pharmacy career”
#pharmacyhour
@PharmacyHour
BREAKING: Pharmacists will be able to administer licensed or unlicensed COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they are approved by the
@MHRAgovuk
, following a change in the law
more to follow...
Congratulations to Lindsay & Gilmour Pharmacy, winner of the Pharmacy Design Award – sponsored by
@ceutagroup
– for their Cross Pharmacy, Inverkeithing branch😊! L&G redesigned the pharmacy, creating a care home hub with a dementia-friendly space.
@LindsayGilmour
#CDAwards
Pharmacies that are “under significant pressure” due to the COVID-19 pandemic can close to the public for up to 2.5 hours a day, including lunch,
@NHSEngland
has said
#PharmacyHour
Listen to
@CandDKristoffer
and
@drmahendrapatel
discuss how community pharmacy can have a key role in assessing patient risk of
#type2diabetes
.
You can subscribe to C+D's podcasts on iTunes or by searching 'Chemist+Druggist podcast' on your preferred android podcast app
We need to include more Black women in
#pharmacy
leadership roles
This
#BHM
, founder of the UK Black Pharmacist Association (
@UKBPA1
), Elsy Gomez Campos, calls for change as she shares her experience navigating a pharmacy career as a Black woman
🎉🥳🏆TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT 🏆🥳🎉
Looking forward to seeing so many of you in person tonight at the
#CDAwards
. Tweet us your pictures using the hashtag & make sure to say 'hi' to the C+D team
For those unable to attend, follow
#CDAwards
for all the latest from the ceremony
Our new blogger, The Student Pharmacist, explains why she's prepared to ignore pharmacy's critics, and is determined to forge a career in the profession:
.
@marvinmunzu
proving popular with the crowd as he runs through trainees' issues with the
#GPhCexam
and the meeting he and some delegates had with
@TheGPhC
this morning
Catch up with his speech in full on C+D's Instagram feed:
#pharmacists
#trainees
BREAKING:
Desogestrel contraceptive pill Lovima available for around £10 from end of July after POM to P switch
More to follow on C+D website
#pharmacy
#POMtoP
#medicineswitch
C+D and
@drmahendrapatel
are campaigning together to find 1,000 pharmacies to contribute to an
@UniofOxford
COVID-19 clinical trial by signposting suitable patients