• North West Ostomy Supplies (NWOS)
• Wardles

• Pharmaid annual redistribution of  BNFmainly in developing countries
• Intercare returned and unused drugs redistributed mainly to Africa
  

• The MDU
• Medical Protection Society
  

• Buttercups Training - courses for dispensers
• NHS Appraisal Toolkit
  

• Department of Health - extremely useful for finding government consultations, publications and statistics: http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en
• The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 including subsequent ammendments
• NHS Business Services Authority Prescription Pricing Division
• Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Regulations concerning the storage, handling, delivery, supply and safety of medicines, click here.
• NICE
• Statement of Financial Entitlements latest ammedments and all documents
• VAT information HMRC, HMRC VAT  , HMRC Updates and Dispensing Doctors and VAT registration

Primary Care News Websites

• http://www.healthcarerepublic.com Primary Care website from Haymarket, publishers of GP, MedEconomics and Mims
• http://www.doctors.net.uk a UK medical network

Pharmacy news websites

• Pharmaceutical Journal (PJ Online) - for in depth coverage of pharmacy news
• Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee - often the first place an important dispensing news item will surface, many issues of importance are shared between dispensing doctors and pharmacists
• Chemist + Druggist
  

Other pharmacy information

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain - useful if you are planning to own a pharmacy.
• The National Pharmacy Association
  

• Electronic Medicines Guide
• Electronic Drug Tariff
• Clinical knowledge Summeries used to be called Prodigy: Multi-format information for patients and professionals on common illnesses seen in primary care
• BNF
• Bandolier
• National Prescribing Centre aim is to ‘promote and support high quality, cost-effective prescribing and medicines management across the NHS, to help improve patient care and service delivery’.
• Drugs and Theraputic Bulletin
• Northern and Yorkshire  Regional Drug & Therapeutics Centre
• Food and Drug Administration
• Scottish Medicines Consortium provides advice  about the status of all newly licensed medicines, all new formulations of existing medicines and new indications for established products
• Midlands Theraputic Review and Advisory Committee
• MeReC Publications (part of NPC website)

• Institute of Rural Health  works to inform, develop and promote the health and wellbeing of rural people and their communities, through research, education and policy analysis. They also host The Rural Health Forum and a Database of Good Practice in Rural Health and Wellbeing. They are involved in Rural Well Being  is a health and wellbeing information service for the people of rural Wales.

• The Centre for Rural Health a Scottish academic unit. On their site there are publications and reports on rural health.

• The BMA has published Healthcare in a Rural Setting which highlights issues relating to Rural Health Care. In their introduction they say “Rural healthcare in the UK is not given the same attention as in countries such as Australia, USA and Canada.” When DDA Online was searching for rural health links we found lots of them for the aforementioned countries.

• Specialising in pharmaceutical (dispensing) law and practice for rural doctors in England and Wales: D R Sceats Solicitor

Scotland

• Scottish Health Statistics have brought all there dispensing and prescribing data onto one page of their website
• The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), evidence based clinical guidelines
• Statement of Financial Entitlements Scotland
• National Services Scotland General Medical Sevices website for all things GMS. it looks like this site has not been updated since March 2004
• The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1995
• Scottish Executive Health Department for recent government publications
• Scottish Drug Tariff
  

• Health Solutions Wales Information solutions for Wales
• The Prescribing Services Unit for Wales
• Welsh Prescribing Cost Analysis
• Welsh Health Statistics