Yvette Cooper has been appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper (MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) is an experienced Cabinet Minister, previously serving as Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Work and Pensions Secretary. Her first ministerial role was as Public Health Minister. [...]
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Pharmacy owners have one week left to claim an Aspiration payment for the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS) 2026/27 as the window for claiming this payment closes at 11.59pm on Tuesday 28th July 2026. The Aspiration payment is optional; if pharmacy owners do not want to claim it, it will not impact on the pharmacy owner’s [...]
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MHRA Class 4 Medicines Defect Notification: Xaggitin XL Prolonged-release Tablets (Macarthys Laboratories Ltd T/A Martindale Pharma) Drug alert number: EL(26)A/35 Date issued: 20 July 2026 Macarthys Laboratories Ltd T/A Martindale Pharma has notified the MHRA of a manufacturing issue impacting several batches of Xaggitin XL Prolonged-release Tablets, due to the occurrence of incorrect tablet counts in [...]
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Community pharmacy owners and their teams have two opportunities to help shape the development of future NHS digital services, ensuring that pharmacy perspectives are reflected in systems designed to support both clinical care and service delivery. The opportunities relate to: An early prototype of a future Manage Your Service (MYS) claiming process for Independent Prescribing [...]
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52% of community pharmacy owners have completed the 2026/27 Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire, with two weeks left to complete. We encourage pharmacy owners who have not yet responded to the questionnaire to ensure they do so by Friday, 31st July 2026. Completing the screening questionnaire is a Terms of Service requirement and [...]
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