Pharmacy in the news
There’s already been intense media interest in pharmacy and medicines, in light of coronavirus.
14 January
BBC News: Andrew Lane interview
BBC: Covid-19: High Street chemists start vaccinations in England
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55649947
Independent: Codeword scheme in pharmacies to give domestic abuse victims ‘lifeline’
Eastern Eye: Let local pharmacists help with vaccinations
https://www.easterneye.biz/let-local-pharmacists-help-with-vaccinations/
13 January
ICP. NPA and RPS celebrate milestone anniversaries
https://www.independentpharmacist.co.uk/659320-npa-and-rps-celebrate-milestone-anniversaries
8 January
Pharmacy Magazine. Vulnerable communities will get vaccine says minister
BBC News: NPA Chair, Andrew Lane discusses COVID vaccinations.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcnews
7 January
NPA took part in important, can-do meeting with Kemi Badenoch, Jo Churchill and Nadhim Zahawi.
5 January
FT: Frontline UK teams query ability to vaccinate most vulnerable
https://www.ft.com/content/62422c11-3c63-4c70-a196-610d26fd2cb2
31 December
Daily Telegraph (paywall). Boris Johnson to move ‘heaven and earth’ to roll out vaccine and ease tough new restrictions
FT (paywall). How does the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine work?
https://www.ft.com/content/52d37cb2-e23c-4881-b7f1-416d554f248e
17 December
ICP. Pharmacy Covid funding petition passes 40,000 signatures
14 December
Conservative Home. Steve Brine: The pharmacists have helped us through this crisis. Yet their future is threatened.
Pharmacy Magazine. AAH axes pharmacy surcharges following critical NPA report
https://www.pharmacymagazine.co.uk/aah-weve-stopped-surcharges-on-pharmacies
11 December
Pharmacy Business. Campaigners urge for COVID-19 funding to save pharmacies from closure
https://www.pharmacy.biz/campaigners-urge-for-covid-19-funding-to-save-pharmacies-from-closure/
ICP. NPA creates 400 placements for unemployed youth
https://www.independentpharmacist.co.uk/654336-npa-reaches-400-placements-in-new-unemployment-scheme
5 December
The Sun. Brits urged to get flu and COVID-19 double vaccination this winter – but at least a week apart
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13394856/patients-urged-to-get-flu-covid-jabs-apart/
25 November
Pharmacy Magazine. Pharmacies need share of NHS £3bn, NPA tells Sunak https://www.pharmacymagazine.co.uk/some-of-the-3bn-outlined-for-nhs-must-go-to-pharmacy-warns-npa
9 November
ICP. NPA ‘won’t stop lobbying for funding support’
https://www.independentpharmacist.co.uk/649715-npa-we-wont-stop-lobbying-for-funding-support
Pharmacy Business. Nearly 70 per cent of UK adults visited pharmacy during pandemic: NPA survey
4 November
C&D. How pharmacy further integrated with NHS during ‘gruelling’ COVID-19
https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/feature/pharmacies-nhs-covid
15 October
Mirror. Local chemists warn they could close just as coronavirus second wave strikes
13 September
Mirror. 1,300 pharmacies beg chemist’s son Rishi Sunak to save them from closure
Mirror. Jackie Doyle-Price: Stop quibbling over pharmacy funds and avert a national tragedy
4 September
Mirror. ‘End of local chemist’ as fears thousands of essential family businesses could close
Andrew Lane, NPA Chair on BBC News, and Sky News:
