New restrictions and safety checks on online pharmacies that prescribing high risk drugs, such as the weight loss drugs semaglutide and tirzepatide, could have a “significant” impact on GPs’ workload, ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Those too slim to be eligible for injections can no longer get prescription without seeing a doctor under new guidance ...

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has told online pharmacies they can no longer prescribe the drugs after reading a ...

GPs could be at medico-legal risk if they ignore requests from online pharmacies for patient information for prescribing ...

General Pharmaceutical Council issues new guidance following reports people are lying about their weight in online forms and submitting photos of themselves in baggy clothes ...

A PHARMACIST who used to teach at the University of Bradford has been given a warning by the pharmacy regulator over "entirely inappropriate" conduct. The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPC) has ...

Online pharmacies in England, Wales, and Scotland will have to carry out stricter checks on people who are buying weight loss drugs, under new regulatory guidance. Pharmacists will no longer be able ...

Online pharmacies are now required to implement stricter verification checks before prescribing weight-loss drugs (also known as GLP1 medications) such as Wegovy and Mounjaro to patients.

The NPA has written to the General Pharmaceutical Council saying current rules leave the door open for medicines to be supplied without appropriate checks "and the risk to patient safety remains".