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The Editors are back with Good Week Bad Week: prescribing predicaments, ICBs in meltdown, CPC highlights, howlers from NHS 111 call handlers and ex-ministerial musings – all feature, and lots more. Check it out!
13 May 2026
Why threatening legal action before funding negotiations is a bad idea, pharmacist independent prescribers eyeing up private services and happy retirement to Boots magnate Ornella Barra. Plus Henry Gregg, Shilpa Shah, Harry McQuillan and Janet Morrison on the year ahead in pharmacy. It's a packed episode!
02 Feb 2026
In a packed edition, Numark chair Harry McQuillan joins the CIG editors in a Good Week Bad Week special to discuss a possible upside to the Mounjaro chaos, whatever happened to ICB breach notices and whether centralised dispensing is the solution to pharmacy's capacity problems. Plus Daniel Lee of HubRx on the possibilities offered by hub & spoke. It's a bumper episode, so let us know your views. Email richard.thomas@1530.com
29 Aug 2025
The editors give their verdict on the Government’s eagerly anticipated 10 Year Plan for the NHS. Did it live up to all the hype?
05 Jul 2025
In this Bank Holiday special, the editors are back from Baku to discuss the highlights – and lowlights – of Sigma's conference in Azerbaijan. Why is CPE so secretive over its decision-making? Was the NPA right to pull back from collective action? Are there opportunities for community pharmacy to play a bigger role in practice-based research? Also – a tribute to Day Lewis's Peter Glover.
23 May 2025
The editors are back with a bank holiday special to discuss whether DSPs no longer able to provide advanced and enhanced services on pharmacy premises is a restraint of trade – they can't decide – as well as closed thinking on prescription charges and the continuing troubles at Jhoots. Plus a special appearance by the Kingly St hound.
02 May 2025
The Editors are back with Good Week Bad Week – the mystery of the lost economic review, when does an incentive (good) become a target (bad), and the sun shines down on pharmacy on the South Coast. Plus calculation conundrums and a quit scheme in South Yorkshire goes up in smoke.
24 Feb 2025
The editors are back with a look ahead to 2025 and what might be in store for community pharmacy. Will it be a year of hope or despair, triumph or failure, optimism or pessimism? Listen here to find out...
25 Jan 2025
Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talks to chair of the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board, Jonathan Burton, about the Society's Royal College aspirations. What might it mean for pharmacists, the wider profession and patients? As far as community pharmacists are concerned – does it matter?
06 Jan 2025
As the sector considers what happens next following the overwhelming vote in favour of collective action, the editors discuss whether this will force the Government to the negotiating table. Plus – why isn't the RPS talking to non-members over its Royal College aspirations, battling post-Budget blues and the new campaign behind Pharmacy First sinks without trace...
18 Nov 2024
Is it the end of the road for monitored dosage systems? Plus – Pharmacy First unpicked, reflections on the Pharmacy Show and why the RPS is right to pursue Royal College status. Warning: it's a bumper edition!
18 Oct 2024
Why do Scotland and England take such different approaches to pharmacy vaccination services? Wes Streeting makes his first pharmacy visit as health secretary. How might pharmacist prescribing fit into the contractual framework. And the mystery of NHSE’s community pharmacy cancer early detection programme. Why won’t anyone talk about it?
22 Aug 2024
