Email consultations with GPs
A new faster way to speak to your GP is planned to be piloted in April next year. Email consultations will hopefully be "widely available" by the end of next year.
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General News
Lacking palliative care in nursing homes
Checks with 10 homes, run by voluntary welfare organisations, showed that between 2 and 20 per cent of their residents could benefit from some expertise in palliative care.
Read moreNHS spend millions on unused drugs
As much as £1 worth of every £20 spent on prescription drugs is never used by patients, according to the NHS.
Read moreAre robots the future of Pharmacy?
A "robotic pharmacist has revolutionised the way a Peterborough hospital dispenses and stocks drugs.
Read moreECDR could save lives
Police are considering seven more suspicious deaths at a care home in Butleigh run by a husband and wife team.
Read morePharmacy advice "frequently poor"?
A recent survey by the staff at Which? Magazine has suggested that staff at pharmacies are frequently giving inappropriate and occasionally dangerous advice to patients
Read moreGovernment to help cancer patients with free prescriptions
Gordon Brown announced his intention to scrap prescription charges for cancer patients at the Labour conference in Manchester this week.
Read morePharmacies encouraged to update
On the 14th of October 2008, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain are hosting a conference at their London offices to promote the use of IT in pharmacy.
Read morePharmacy drives with the times
Companies are finding new services and better ways to offer them to their customers and Boots Healthcare are no exception having just opened a new drive-through pharmacy in Colchester.
Read moreWelsh surgeries forced to close pharmacies
Dispensing surgeries are being forced to close because of a legal loophole in Wales. Conservatives are attacking the Welsh Assembly Government for not protecting such practices that are mainly in rural areas.
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