Prescription charges have been branded a ‘cruel tax on illness’ after polling revealed patients are going without medicines due to cost.

Proteins found in blood samples more than 15 years before a prostate cancer diagnosis could provide clues to the biological processes ...

A pharmacist and an employee at his wholesale business have been jailed for their roles in a £1.3 million NHS prescription ...

Less than a third of pharmacy staff feel that the sector regulator listens to their views when developing policies, standards ...

Pharmacies claimed for less than half (47%) of the Pharmacy First consultations that they could have received payment for ...

A medicine for intermittent leg pain is out of stock, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. In a tier 2 – medium impact – notification, issued on 19 October, the DHSC said ...

Thousands of fake weight-loss pens worth £2 million were seized by the UK medicines watchdog from a ‘filthy warehouse’ in ...

The marketing authorisation for one of the two chikungunya vaccines licensed in the UK has officially been withdrawn by the ...

The government has warned it can afford a 2.4% pay increase for NHS pharmacy staff without having to make ‘trade-offs’.

The medicines watchdog has launched a consultation on proposals to allow schools to purchase and store spare adrenaline nasal sprays (ANS). The proposed changes, announced yesterday, would extend the ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has authorised a once-weekly insulin injection for adults with type 2 ...