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PDA calls for a minute’s silence for health workers felled by coronavirus
The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) is calling for a minute's silence next week to remember the health workers who have been killed by Covid-19...
Pharmacists ‘are unsung heroes in Covid-19 fight’
By Priyankur Mandav
As stocks of hand sanitisers, face masks, thermometers, paracetamol, painkillers and vitamins are depleted from shops, pharmacists across the UK are working...
How To Prevent Backache
Backache can be the downfall of even the strongest person you know. Back problems, which affect more than 1 in 10 people of the world’s population,...
Indemnity to cover situations ‘technically outside of regulatory standards’, PDA clarifies
Indemnity cover will be extended to include such activities pharmacists have to take up in response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association...
UK begins trial of HIV medicine, steroid as possible COVID-19 treatments
Scientists at Oxford University have started a clinical trial to investigate the effects of an HIV medicine and a steroid drug in UK patients admitted...
LloydsPharmacy introduces new opening hours and social distance policy
LloydsPharmacy has introduced new opening hours and a social distancing policy, effective from Friday (20 March), in response to the rising demand due to...