The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has launched a legal challenge against the Government's proposed plans to cut £113 million from the pharmacy budget.
The General Medical Council has launched an investigation after a number of antibiotics were prescribed freely by some online pharmacies in ways that should not have happened according to NICE guidelines.
The Government has announced that community pharmacy funding will be cut by 4% for 2016-2017 and 3.4% for 2017-2018 - an overall reduction in funding to approximately £2.592bn.
Seemingly no pharma company is left safe from takeover this year, as we see Bayer seek to branch out into the agri-chemical space through its proposed takeover of Monsanto.
Software that analyses health data could be deemed to be a medical device and become regulated, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said.
For only the fourth time in its history, the UN general assembly has held a high-level meeting on a health issue and this time its focus was on antimicrobial resistance.
