Sore throat is a common presentation in both community pharmacy and general practice. Treatment depends on the cause, and includes both pharmacological and non-pharmacological management.

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For many years, pharmacists routinely added ‘until all finished’ to the dispensing label of antibiotics, in line with the previous iteration of Cautionary Advisory Label (CAL) D and the approved product information at the time. But when it became clear that this practice was starting to challenge appropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial stewardship, something had to change.