Pharmacy firms and commentaries on related issues. There is more on our page on private involvement in UK healthcare and on our campaign against prescription charges and there is a separate page on substance abuse.
- A thousand little ships: PDA calls for community pharmacists to administer second doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine 2021-02-01
- PDA member survey shows prescription charges in England regularly prevent patients from receiving their medicines 2020-11-05
- Why the UK failed the pandemic test 2020-08-03
- News from the Frontline 29.05.20 2020-05-29
- Studies reporting lack of benefit from hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 2020-05-19
- Potential treatments for COVID-19 could be manufactured for $1 a day or less 2020-04-15
- PDA say zero tolerance needed in pharmacies to stop verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, racist, sexist and physical attacks. 2020-04-15
- 2 papers from Jean Hardiman Smith 2019-12-23
- New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 2019-10-16
- Tell us your views on our draft guidance for pharmacist prescribers 2019-03-29
- Overwhelming trade union recognition ballot result shows how out of touch Boots senior management are from their pharmacists. 2019-03-12
- The Good Law Project has warned legal challenge to the DHSC over serious shortage medicines protocol 2019-02-24
- Boots pharmacists voting to complete 8 year campaign for trade union recognition 2019-01-31
- Solidarity with community pharmacists 2018-05-05
- FAQs for Paramedic Prescribing 2018-03-31
- Paying for over the counter items 2018-02-07
- The True Value Of Community Pharmacy 2016-10-28
- Pharmacy cuts will add to pressure on NHS 2016-10-26
- In praise of bolshie patients 2016-06-06
- Issues for Labour’s pharmacies policy 2016-06-03
- NHS England will not pay for new HIV prevention treatment 2016-03-22
- Funding cuts could close hundreds of pharmacies 2016-03-12
- Rural areas count the cost of broken political promises 2015-03-06
- Dispensing Doctors and Rural General Practice 2015-02-27
- Is the private sector always bad? 2015-01-30
- The 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident
- Abbott Laboratories
- Actelion
- Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link
- Adverse drug reactions wastes NHS £2BN reveals Compass March 2008
- Allergy Therapeutics
- America’s Other Drug Problem (pdf file)
- Asda announces ‘not for profit’ price on ALL cancer treatment drugs 2010
- Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer
- A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Drugs for people not for profit Compass 2009
- Black Triangle – a medical/pharmaceutical blog
- British National Formulary
- Electronic Medicine’s Compendium – database of drugs licensed in the UK
- Coalition Cancer Drugs Fund
- Consumers International
- Disease Mongering
- Dispensing Doctors’ Association
- Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
- Drug Tariff Online
- Drugs and the Health Service (1960 pamphlet on drug costs for private patients)
- The Drug, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries 1954
- EudraPharm
- European Commmission – Pharmaceuticals
- The fool’s gold that heals – Jacky Law 2006
- Getting the Right Medicines? – Kings Fund 2003
- World of GlaxoSmithKline
- Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
- How prescription drug harms can go unnoticed
- InPharm
- International Aids Vaccine Initiative
- Institute of Clinical Research
- Janssen-Cilag
- Johnson & Johnson
- Malaria Vaccine Initiative
- Merck
- Medicines for Malaria Venture
- Multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme: a costly failure
- NICE
- Nice to lose powers to decide on new drugs 2010
- No free lunch
- Novartis
- Oxfam
- Patenting Genes (BMJ 2004)
- Patient Choice Foundation
- Patients and doctors need more training about over-the-counter medicines, says BMA 2005
- Pfizer
- Pharma Portal on Powerbase
- The Pharmaceutical Service Enoch Powell 1966
- Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
- Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America
- Pharmacy Law and Ethics Resource Centre
- Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority
- Prevention better than promise of a cure Financial Times 2009
- Proprietary Association of Great Britain
- Roche
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Sanofi
- Schulke & Mayr
- Scrip Magazine
- Socialist Health campaign policies for the pharmaceutical industry 1996
- The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry Health Select Committee 2005
- Treatment Action Campaign
- What Are the Public Health Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising?
- Wonder Drug Inspires Deep, Unwavering Love Of Pharmaceutical Companies
- World Trade Organisation Intellectual Property Rights