Deputy says it is wrong patients must see a GP every six months to receive their prescriptions.

There is a risk too many people are being diagnosed as obese, with weight-loss drugs in high demand.

Councils are assessing residents' current and future needs.

The cost of wasted medicines to the NHS in England is estimated to be £300m each year.

Bracknell Forest was found to have the fourth lowest number of pharmacies per 100,000 people.

Leeds pharmacy boss Ashley Cohen says dispensing drugs has become "loss making".

A new drug that slows the pace of Alzheimer's disease is too expensive for too little benefit to be used on the NHS, the watchdog says.

A clinical study in Greater Manchester is to measure how weight loss jabs affect employment status.