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This Thursday, January 18, The Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) is teaming up with RTÉ's Operation Transformation to support National Blood Pressure Day 2024. The partnership will see over 28 pharmacies participating in Galway, offering once-off free blood pressure checks.

Medicines for Ireland (MFI) are urging Government to heed recent warnings from GPs and pharmacists nationwide on the growing risk of medicines shortages as inflation, energy and transport costs continue to rise, and global supply chain disruptions persist.

The pharmacy retail counter assistant course has been running for 20 years at the GRETB Training Centre in Mervue, Galway. The course regularly provides staff to pharmacies in both full and part time positions as pharmacy assistants, cosmetic sales assistants, and pharmacy managers. Over 80 per cent of course graduates have secured employment in pharmacies.

As we continue to ‘stay home’ in our third lockdown, the arrival of vaccines, Spring, and the new green shoots of growth brings some hope and optimism for better and brighter days ahead. While the team at University Pharmacy have been serving the needs of their customers throughout the pandemic, they have also been busy preparing some new green shoots of their own. This week sees the launch of their exciting new website and Galway City pharmacy delivery service - www.universitypharmacy.ie.

CEO of Retail Excellence Ireland Lorraine Higgins recently addressed a group of learners attending the GRETB Training Centres retail sales course on the importance of the retail industry in Ireland today.

More than 500,000 people aged 65 and older in Ireland are at risk of getting pneumococcal disease, or pneumo, this winter.

Pharmacists have urged parents to be extremely careful when giving medicines to children and to always seek the advice of a pharmacist before giving a child any medication.

Pharmacists have issued a reminder to parents to be extremely careful when giving medicines to children and to always seek the advice of a pharmacist before giving a child any medication.

Pharmacist twin sisters Ann and Deirdre Butler from Ballina have bought a business from another family of pharmacists which has been in existence for almost 70 years. They have bought two pharmacies from the Higgins family located on Teeling Street and Market Cross in Sligo town.

With many of us abandoning our new year’s resolutions almost as soon as we begin, pharmacists are reminding people that they are there to offer support to those who want to have a healthier lifestyle.