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‘Show me your meds, please’: the impact of home-based medicines assessments

A South Somerset pilot project has demonstrated why asking to see a patient’s medicines during a home visit can have a considerable impact on their health, while saving NHS costs and resources.…

Motion sickness: causes, prevention and management

Hyponatraemia: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment

Infographic: the ethnicity awarding gap for the pharmacy degree during COVID-19

Warm words cannot mask the true picture of pharmacy neglect

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News from Wales

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RPS rejoins International Pharmaceutical Federation

National pharmacy board meeting: 8 February 2023

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UTIs can be diagnosed without a dipstick test, says NICE

Premature newborn baby in the hospital incubator

Newborn babies to be genetically tested to prevent gentamicin-associated deafness

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Pharmacies report three-fold increase in patients seeking emergency medicine

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Alternative to injections for people with severe migraines approved for use on NHS

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Government to change law to reclassify so-called ‘diet drug’ as a poison

News from Scotland

claire anderson

RPS rejoins International Pharmaceutical Federation

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Scotland becomes first country to stop use of environmentally harmful desflurane

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New mentor role introduced to help train independent pharmacist prescribers in Scotland

National pharmacy board meeting: 8 February 2023

yellow pills

Government to change law to reclassify so-called ‘diet drug’ as a poison

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Almost half of pharmacists have experienced abuse in the past six months, finds RPS survey

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Increase in overseas pharmacists applying to train to work in Great Britain

Genomics

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Should we be genetic testing before prescribing analgesics?

Infographic: 2022 unwrapped

Sir Munir Pirmohamed

Sir Munir Pirmohamed: ‘Now is the time to implement pharmacogenomic testing into the NHS’

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Government-funded research to screen genomes of 100,000 babies for rare diseases

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Adverse drug reactions reduced by nearly one third after genetic testing, major trial results to show

How we set up the UK's first clopidogrel genomics testing system

How we set up the UK’s first clopidogrel genomics testing system

Everything you need to know about the NHS Genomic Medicine Service

Everything you need to know about the NHS genomic medicine service

Learning & CPD

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Motion sickness: causes, prevention and management

Blood test being held by clinician

Hyponatraemia: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment

young boy facing window with hands over his ears

Autism: identification, management and support

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Pharmacy’s role in supporting adults who self-harm

healthcare professional sat with older woman and medication boxes writing notes

How to conduct a clinical review of a patient’s medicines

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Interpretation of electrocardiograms

Person having dialysis in hospital

Dose adjustments of antimicrobials in patients with renal impairment

Tributes & obituaries

Gastrointestinal system diseases

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