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How effective deployment of pharmacy technicians could free up GPs time

Pharmacy technicians are well positioned to support medicines optimisation, prescribing safety and workforce sustainability.…

The lives cut short by medicine shortages

Pharmacy Inside Jobs: ophthalmology

Core advanced credentialing: lessons from a hospital pilot programme

Are electronic prescribing systems as safe as we think?

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Everything you need to know about nitazenes

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Pharmacy’s role in harm reduction in individuals with substance use disorder

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Applications of AI in pharmacy practice

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Using generative AI to support revision and learning

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Best practice for consultations with patients with additional speech and hearing needs

Amyloid plaques amongst neurons

Diagnosis and management of dementia

The dangers of propranolol for anxiety

News from Wales

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Hypertension pilot demonstrated pharmacy management of long-term conditions

A scientist prepares a DNA sample for analysis

All health boards told to include a member of their pharmacy team in ATMP planning

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Almost half of pharmacy owners cut staff because of cost pressures in the past year, survey finds

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Pharmacy ‘at the heart’ of Welsh government’s healthcare priorities

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Nasal adrenaline spray recommended for use in NHS Wales

‘We’re in our early days’: the Royal College of Pharmacy’s first national advisory council chairs on their priorities

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Once-weekly insulin would be ‘significant change’ for diabetes prescribers

News from Scotland

A healthcare professional checks a patient's blood pressure

Hypertension pilot demonstrated pharmacy management of long-term conditions

A scientist prepares a DNA sample for analysis

All health boards told to include a member of their pharmacy team in ATMP planning

A green cross sign in a community pharmacy

Almost half of pharmacy owners cut staff because of cost pressures in the past year, survey finds

A pharmacist reaches for a prescription in a community pharmacy

Pharmacy ‘at the heart’ of Welsh government’s healthcare priorities

Light blue background with EURNeffy product in the centre

Nasal adrenaline spray recommended for use in NHS Wales

‘We’re in our early days’: the Royal College of Pharmacy’s first national advisory council chairs on their priorities

A woman uses a insulin injection

Once-weekly insulin would be ‘significant change’ for diabetes prescribers

Learning & CPD

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Understanding correlation, regression and survival analysis

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Understanding commonly used statistical tests

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Supporting patients who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19

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How to manage medicines during major incidents

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Case-based learning: differentiating migraine in a patient with sickle cell disease

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Understanding risk and clinical utility, dropouts, data handling and the discussion section when evaluating studies

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Evaluating study results: statistical inference, hypothesis testing and significance

Haemato-oncology

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Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors and B-cell malignancies: a guide for pharmacists

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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: diagnosis and management

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How can pharmacists best support patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia?

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Management of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia

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BTK inhibitors: what pharmacists need to know

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BRUKINSA: explore the possibilities in CLL

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