January 2026, Vol 316, No 8005
Top news stories
Pharmacy bodies express anger over exclusion from business rates relief
Community pharmacies face ‘economic peril’, CPE warns government
NICE recommends treatment that could help 30,000 people with COPD
Concerns raised that pharmacists in Scotland may not be able to opt out of assisted dying process
Higher-dose Wegovy could increase patient expectation, warns PDA
Jhoots Pharmacy enters administration
Features
Is a cure for epidermolysis bullosa on the horizon?
Everything you need to know about PrEP provision in community pharmacy
Speaking up: how to raise concerns in the pharmacy workplace
Taking advantage of the radiopharmaceutical revolution
‘Complex and largely uncharted’: the grey area of AI
Opinion
PJ view: Access to rare disease treatment should not be a rarity
Managing the shift to prescribing at registration for pharmacists
Community pharmacy in focus: research insights on improving patient care
Sir Hugh Taylor: ‘We’d like to do ourselves out of a job as quickly as possible’
Crossing borders and breaking barriers: why we need to truly value global contributions to pharmacy and healthcare
Beyond the legal floor: raising the ceiling on neurodivergence in pharmacy
From adviser to prescriber: pharmacy’s evolution within the cardiology healthcare team
To sip or not to sip: the environmental burden of oral nutritional supplements
From pain to wellbeing: why deprescribing might be the most powerful prescription of all
Learning & CPD
Managing neuropathic pain in bipolar disorder
Type 1 diabetes mellitus and disordered eating
Prescribing dilemma: high-cost biologics in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis
Norovirus and strategies for infection control
Management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Structured medication reviews in frailty
Case-based learning: women’s health and anticoagulation
Your RPS
Proposed changes to technician training will help future-proof profession, says RPS
RPS joins call for better collaboration in contraceptive commissioning
