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Diabetes in hospital: could more specialist pharmacists reduce high error rates?

Error rates for insulin and diabetes medicines among hospital inpatients remain unacceptably high, yet there is a severe lack of specialist diabetes pharmacists across the NHS.…

Racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care

Never again: training our immune systems to neutralise killer coronaviruses

Why all pharmacies should be a refuge for victims of domestic violence

Aim for the pain: reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescribing in otitis media

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Pharmacists to join NHS industrial action over pay rise offer

‘Revolutionary’ cancer genomic testing service launched in Wales

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Full electronic prescribing within five years, Welsh government pledges

It is ‘shocking’ that free flu vaccinations are not being offered to all pharmacists in England and Wales, says RPS

Government fails to act on calls for tighter controls after liquid morphine deaths

Government fails to respond to calls for tighter controls after liquid morphine deaths

Cheryl Way: ‘Sometimes, we need to give ourselves a good talking to’

A queue maintaining safe social distancing outside the local pharmacy in the small Welsh town of Presteigne, Powys, Wales

Health services in Wales to receive extra £550m to cover COVID-19 costs

News from Scotland

Scottish government funds 130 post-registration training places from October 2021

NHS Scotland sign of Scottish Ambulance Service at St John's Hospital, Livingston

Additional £28m for primary care in Scotland may be used to accelerate recruitment of GP pharmacists

Angela Constance, minister of drugs policy for the Scottish government

Angela Constance: ‘This is a public health emergency’

Contraceptive pill packets

Community pharmacies to provide three-month supply of desogestrel as bridging contraception

Andrew Carruthers: ‘Pausing recruitment of GP pharmacists is not the answer’

Pharmacy consultation

Pharmacy staff recruitment into general practice should be paused, say negotiators

Community pharmacy hospital discharge service to launch in Scotland

Community pharmacy hospital discharge service to launch in Scotland

Learning & CPD

How to counsel patients on the administration of nasal sprays, drops and ointments and performing nasal irrigation

How to counsel patients on the administration of nasal sprays, drops and ointments and performing nasal irrigation

Carpal tunnel syndrome: identification and management

Carpal tunnel syndrome: identification and management

Clostridioides difficile infection: management

Long-acting reversible contraception

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Thyrotoxicosis and hyperthyroidism: causes, diagnosis and management

Thyrotoxicosis and hyperthyroidism: causes, diagnosis and management

Pharmacy guide to joint pain: case studies

Pharmacy guide to joint pain: case studies

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Pharmacy guide to joint pain: management

Pharmacy guide to joint pain: management

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