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September 2024, Vol 313, No 7989

Table of contents

Top news stories

Announcements & Tributes

Top news stories

Older woman opening prescription bag

Whole-pack dispensing to be introduced from January 2025 following legislation change

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

Clinician checking a person's neck

Pharmacies have missed out on almost £10m in funding having not met Pharmacy First thresholds

Features

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Everything you need to know about the NHS antibiotic subscription model

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Mpox: how is the UK preparing for the latest variant?

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Prescribing in community pharmacy: will it fail or flourish?

Opinion

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Pharmacy teams should be integral to humanitarian organisations

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Call for papers: palliative and end-of-life care

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Martin Sawer: ‘NHS hospitals owe wholesalers millions of pounds in overdue invoices’

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Why I took a ‘workforce wellbeing’ course for pharmacy managers

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What it means to be a clinical writer at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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Becoming an advanced clinical practitioner

Columns

Parastou Donyai

How do we use science within the practice of pharmacy?

Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight

How will we generate the new generation of prescribing pharmacists?

Learning & CPD

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How can pharmacists best support patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia?

Supported content

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Test your knowledge of sexual and reproductive health

Alirocumab (tradename Praluent) pen in use to administer subcutaneous injection

Lipid-lowering therapies for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care

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Reflective practice for pharmacist prescribers

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Understanding human factors in patient safety when prescribing

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How to make the pharmacy workplace inclusive for neurodivergent team members

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Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when treating sertraline sexual dysfunction

Your RPS

Paul Bennett: ‘Becoming a royal college is the right thing to do for the profession, our members, patients and the public’

RPS HQ in London

RPS announces proposals to move towards royal college status

Laura Wilson, director for Scotland at the RPS

Director for RPS Scotland wins FIP Congress oral presentation prize

A 2021 banner advertising COVID-19 vaccinations at Med Mart Pharmacy in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire

COVID-19 Inquiry must consider pharmacy resilience in case of future pandemics, says RPS

Tase Oputu, chair of the RPS English Pharmacy Board

Chair of RPS English Pharmacy Board appointed to NHS Assembly

Letters

Announcements & Tributes