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A total of 1,430 people using stop smoking services across Northern Ireland signed up to quit during last year’s No Smoking Month. The P...
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With one in five adults in the United Kingdom reckoned to have a vitamin D deficiency, leading experts are now recommending innovative ways of increasing our intake…
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COVID-19: Impact of on pharmacy sector. By Tony Evans, Head of Pharmacy at Christie & Co
Almost three months into the UK government’s lockdown, the pharmacy sector’s response has been immeasurable, with contractors and staff providing a herculean e...
DIAGNOSTIC COVID-19 TESTING BEGINS AT AGRI-FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE
Testing for COVID-19 is now underway at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), significantly increasing the Department of Health’s testing capacity ...
Alliance Healthcare – keeping you informed
Over the late May Bank Holiday our service centres’ opening hours will be changing, but as always we offer emergency courier service wherever required. Plea...
New 100% accurate COVID-19 antibody test approved for use in UK
Public Health England has approved an antibody test, which may be used to identify how much of the UK population has been infected by COVID-19. Elecsys® Ant...
Community pharmacy trade unions call on government to facilitate talks on workplace safety
The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) and USDAW (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) have written a joint letter to Health and Social Care Sec...
Alphega Pharmacy Members Receive Extra Support in COVID-19 Effort
Alphega Pharmacy Members have been going to heroic lengths to support patients during this time of uncertainty, coping with unprecedented demand and changing t...
NI Company In Demand After Manufacturing First Sanitiser Certified To Kill COVID-19
Northern Ireland company Aktivora has been inundated with orders for its ‘super sanitiser’ after it became the first in the UK and Ireland to be certified to k...
PHARMACY BODY WARNS OF WORKFORCE PRESSURES AS STUDENTS FACE FURTHER DELAY IN JOINING THE WORKFORCE
The body representing community pharmacy in Northern Ireland has warned that if the delay in pharmacy pre-registration students j...
UK company repurposes its specialist food packaging designs and technology to make PPE for pharmacists
Capacity to deliver up to ten million face shields a weekNews follows the announcement from Boris Johnson that ‘face coverings will be useful when lockdow...
Independent community pharmacies react angrily to a recent change in the MyGP app
Independent community pharmacies have reacted angrily to a recent change in the MyGP app which they believe pushes their patients towards Lloydspharmacy’s ECHO...