Kate Bowie

A pharmacist was unable to save a girl who died from a severe allergic reaction to a Costa Coffee drink “due to a national shortage of adrenaline auto injectors”, a coroner has found.

A Well staff member must fulfil a community order after stealing cash over a five-month period, C+D has learned.

A joint regulator “enforcement operation” is cracking down on swathes of businesses using social media to promote prescription-only medicines (POMs), while the government has raised concerns over online pharmacies prescribing weight loss drugs.

A Rowlands Pharmacy branch has reopened in a “temporary cabin” after the original premise was decimated in a fire, it has announced.

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has formed a “new working group” to support its “anti-racism agenda” and hold itself “to the same high standards [it expects] of others”, it has announced.

A “high-strength veterinary sedative” and 21 other “dangerous” drugs will be banned by the government, it has announced.