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 1 February 2021
- PDA member survey shows prescription charges in England regularly prevent patients from receiving their medicines 5 November 2020
- Why the UK failed the pandemic test 3 August 2020
- News from the Frontline 29.05.20 29 May 2020
- Studies reporting lack of benefit from hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 19 May 2020
- Potential treatments for COVID-19 could be manufactured for $1 a day or less 15 April 2020
- PDA say zero tolerance needed in pharmacies to stop verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, racist, sexist and physical attacks. 15 April 2020
- 2 papers from Jean Hardiman Smith 23 December 2019
- New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 16 October 2019
- Tell us your views on our draft guidance for pharmacist prescribers 29 March 2019
- Overwhelming trade union recognition ballot result shows how out of touch Boots senior management are from their pharmacists. 12 March 2019
- The Good Law Project has warned legal challenge to the DHSC over serious shortage medicines protocol 24 February 2019
- Boots pharmacists voting to complete 8 year campaign for trade union recognition 31 January 2019
- Solidarity with community pharmacists 5 May 2018
- FAQs for Paramedic Prescribing 31 March 2018
- Paying for over the counter items 7 February 2018
- The True Value Of Community Pharmacy 28 October 2016
- Pharmacy cuts will add to pressure on NHS 26 October 2016
- In praise of bolshie patients 6 June 2016
- Issues for Labour’s pharmacies policy 3 June 2016
- NHS England will not pay for new HIV prevention treatment 22 March 2016
- Funding cuts could close hundreds of pharmacies 12 March 2016
- Rural areas count the cost of broken political promises 6 March 2015
- Dispensing Doctors and Rural General Practice 27 February 2015
- Is the private sector always bad? 30 January 2015
- 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