“I’m in the o%ce today, ” says Nigel Clarke, outgoing chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), as he makes a gesture that takes in the crisp white walls, neatly-filled bookshelves and the distinctive delftware pharmacy jars of the pharmacy regulator’s London headquarters. It is a small but poignant illustration of just how much the COVID-19 pandemic changed our way of life-for many of us, being physically present in the o%ce is still something of an occasion.
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