pharmacists

Fat Profits or a Fat Lip for Novo Nordisk?

Terry Maguire on February 6, 2023, 11:01 am

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Annual continuing professional development (CPD) is a requirement for most professions including pharmacy. Keeping up-to-date with our art and craft is essential to keeping our customers and patients safe. There is considerable freedom for individual pharmacists to choose what subjects they wish to complete in the required 30 hours of CPD in a given year and drug manufacturers have always been a useful and convenient source of lectures and seminars. The Sunday Times (Feb 5th 2023 p11) reports that a …

General Practice is making pharmacists’ lives very difficult and is potentially risking patient safety…

Terry Maguire on September 1, 2021, 7:22 am

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GPs locked the surgery doors on 16th March 2020 and have, it seem, only resumed a basic service. Officially no one is saying so; it’s an uncomfortable truth and GPs are everywhere making the case they work harder than ever. Perhaps they do. When GP spokespersons appear outside practices to tell us how exhausted and burned out they are we might be hearing the truth or we could be witnessing spin at its apogee. Patient access remains constrained to the …