Pharmacists have joined the government’s medicines regulator to warn about sales of counterfeits.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) say that the sale of counterfeit medicines is a growing problem around the world, largely driven by illegal websites.

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Five government departments have joined the Church of England to improve the support offered to churches and faith groups to work with local communities.

The report, ‘Realising the potential’, is the first time a list of all the relevant Government funding streams and capacity building resources have been listed in one document. It sets out support to help faith groups engage strategically at local and regional levels around the delivery of local priorities and access to funding allocations. There are also out actions for national, regional and local government to improve how they work with churches and faith groups.

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Deprived neighbourhoods fulfill different functional roles and successful policy intervention and strategy development requires an understanding of these different roles.

This paper from Communities and Local Government sets out a framework for gaining a better understanding of those roles. The research examined migration data for people moving into and out of deprived areas. From this data four types of areas were identified.

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