Flame Health Pharmacy have had a great week this week. Senior partner Clare Brazill has been very impressed with the quality of work this week from her team. Louise Parratt has successfully placed a Pharmacist in Spalding and a Pharmacy Manager in Ipswich. We hope the placed candidates will enjoy working within these established, dedicated companies. Well […]

Are you a Pharmacist or a Pharmacy Manager? Flame Health are keen to hear your thoughts on Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s comments from this week. He has commented that pharmacies already play an important part in the public health agenda but called for pharmacies and other organisations to help the Government’s long term strategy and […]

The Office of National Statistics has stated that the number of people out of work has gone up by 114,000 to 2.57 million in the three month period up to August. Commenting on the latest figures, Tom Hadley, the REC’s Director of Policy and Professional Services, said: “This increase is one of the most substantial […]

It has been an exciting and successful week for the Pharmacy team at Flame Health. The team have successfully placed 3 candidates so far this week; two placements for Clare and one for Louise. The team also have three offers outstanding! The team worked exceptionally hard on these roles and we congratulate them for the […]

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Permanent staff placements rose in August, similar to a rate from July, the Report on Jobs published by the REC and KPMG stated.  There was also a strong rise in candidate availability. This is the strongest rise since January 2010. However the number of vacancies available was at a low, the lowest in 9 months. […]

Flame Health Pharmacy have had an exceptional week. We are sure the Bank Holiday weekend will involve a few celebratory drinks for the team! Clare, Louise and Aneesha successfully placed 7 candidates. We hope everyone enjoys their new roles. Well done ladies for working hard this week. A whopping 15 interviews were booked this week, […]

Pharmacists in Scotland are being urged to promote a government bowel screening programme, in a move that is being supported by the RPS. The screening programme is the first to be offered to both men and women in Scotland and targets those aged between 50 and 74. Patients can send off for a free detection […]

The Patients Association has said that community pharmacy could play an essential role in raising awareness of malnutrition and advising those at risk. They have stated that malnutrition should be treated as a public health issue and the role of community pharmacists in tackling it must be considered by public health directors in the reformed […]

NHS figures have revealed that quit rates for patients using pharmacy smoking cessation services improved last year, but the sector still has a lower than average success rate compared with other service providers. Pharmacies helped more than 66,000 people give up smoking in the year between April 2010 and March 2011, making the sector the […]

Results from the C & D Senate Survey have suggested that less than 60 per cent of pharmacists are in favour of the new medicine service (NMS) launching this October. A quarter of respondents so far have said they won’t have time to provide the service, while others were concerned that the NMS had been […]

Independent pharmacists are concerned about the lack of practical detail around how the New Medicine Service and targeted medicines use reviews (MURs) will operate when they are introduced on 1 October 2011. The Independent Pharmacy Federation is advising community pharmacists to start looking at how they can change their skill mix and free their time […]

The National Prescribing Centre (NPC) has said in prescribing guidance published last week that GPs should enlist the aid of pharmacists to help minimise prescribing errors, The NPC guide follows studies that revealed GPs have a prescription error rate of 7.5 per cent, with errors in four drug classes – antithrombotics, anticoagulants, NSAIDs and diuretics […]

The GPhC governing council has agreed registration fees, including a decision to reduce the registration fee for pharmacists to 2% (a £5 annum increase). This below inflation increase of 2% for pharmacists was also agreed for pharmacy premises. Registration fees for pharmacy technicians would reduce by 15.5% (£22 reduction). The Pharmacy Order 2010 requires the […]

From 1st July 2011 all pharmacy technicians must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) to practice in England, Scotland or Wales. If you do not apply to register before 5pm on 30th June 2011 you will not be able to carry out the duties under the title of being a pharmacy technician. You may […]