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Safety first: delivering trans-inclusive care is everyone’s responsibility

The quality of trans-inclusive care is lagging behind other population groups, says Stewart O’Callaghan, chief executive and founder of OUTpatients, who lays out the challenges and necessary changes needed to remedy this issue.…

Five months of Pharmacy First: an access lottery for patients

Warp drive: conducting experiments in space allows speedy results

Why are some research papers cited more than others?

Everything you need to know about the NHS antibiotic subscription model

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News from Wales

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Electronic prescription service used to dispense 100,000 items

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NICE rejects cabotegravir for PrEP in draft guidance

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MMR vaccination coverage in England has declined for fifth consecutive year

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Hospital pharmacists vote to accept 5.5% pay offer from UK government

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National Pharmacy Association to ballot members on work-to-rule action

Laura Wilson, director for Scotland at the RPS

Director for RPS Scotland wins FIP Congress oral presentation prize

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NICE recommends emergency kits for people with adrenal insufficiency to cut hospital admissions

News from Scotland

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Pharmacists to improve provision of palliative care medicines under proposed five-year strategy

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Scottish government to replace paper prescriptions by 2026

Community pharmacies to receive increase in funding worth £13.2m for 2024/2025

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Pharmacy teams identify patients with ‘red-flag’ cancer symptoms in early diagnosis project

A baby boy getting vaccinated in his upper thigh

MMR vaccination coverage in England has declined for fifth consecutive year

Pharmacist in hospital pharmacy dispensary

Hospital pharmacists vote to accept 5.5% pay offer from UK government

Laura Wilson, director for Scotland at the RPS

Director for RPS Scotland wins FIP Congress oral presentation prize

Learning & CPD

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From paper to practice: a pharmacy professional’s guide to critical appraisal tools

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Medication maths: displacement volumes and values

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Medication maths: using a resource or artefact when calculating doses and dose regimen

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Cardiac chest pain: identification, referral and management in primary care

Medication maths: estimations of kidney function

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Preparing for the GPhC pharmaceutical calculations assessment

Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefits of off-label migraine treatment in a child

Haemato-oncology

Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma. Light micrograph of a mixture of lymphocytes and plasma cells with inclusions, from bone marrow, in a case of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, also known as Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. This cancer affects B cell lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. It is named for the resemblance the abnormal cells have to plasma cells, resulting in them being termed plasmacytoid lymphocytes. The white blood cells are stained purple, with the red blood cells appearing a pale orange.

Management of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia

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BTK inhibitors: what pharmacists need to know

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BRUKINSA: a next-generation BTK inhibitor

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Exam preparation and resources

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Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: six steps to help you effectively plan your revision

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Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: how to approach learning outcomes relating to professional practice

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Preparing for the GPhC registration exams: how to revise learning outcomes relating to clinical knowledge and therapeutic approaches

Medication maths: how to solve dose and dosage calculations

Medication maths: how to solve dose and dosage calculations (video)

Medication maths: how to solve infusion calculations

Medication maths: how to solve infusion calculations (video)

Medication maths: how to use provided formulae and solve quantity to supply calculations

Medication maths: quantities to supply and using provided formulae calculations (video)

Medication maths: how to solve pharmacy calculations: concentrations, dilutions and health economics

Medication maths: how to solve pharmacy calculations — concentrations, dilutions and health economics (video)

Genomics

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More than 2,000 patients tested in UK’s first routine genotyping project for clopidogrel prescribing

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Lessons from testing 2,300 patients at the UK’s first CYP2C19 genotyping system

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First gene-editing therapy recommended by NICE to treat people with beta thalassaemia

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Closing the ethnicity gap in pharmacogenomics

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Screening for gene variants should be broadened to reduce health inequalities, systematic review concludes

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Test yourself: the 2023 CPD and Learning quiz

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Clopidogrel may be less effective in British South Asian patients, study results suggest

Tributes & obituaries

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