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September 2026, Vol 317, No 8013

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Top news stories

Royal College of Pharmacy news

Top news stories

Outside of the Royal College of Pharmacy building

Royal College of Pharmacy launches national standard and credential for newly qualified pharmacist prescribers

The green cross sign outside of a community pharmacy

Migraine and acne included in new prescribing Pharmacy First pathways

Pink coloured pills packed in blister isolated on white

MHRA reviewing risks and safeguards for propranolol use in anxiety

A GP conducts a consultation with a patient

Medicines management policy for high-risk drugs introduced by GP practice, following death of patient

General Pharmaceutical Council offices

‘Sharp increase’ in AI-generated complaints as fitness to practise concerns rise by a third

A man receives an injection in his abdomen

NICE rejects long-acting HIV prevention treatment lenacapavir for NHS use

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Community pharmacist prescribing service planned for October 2026 start

Features

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The lives cut short by medicine shortages

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Can immunotherapy stop the clock on type 1 diabetes?

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Everything you need to know about the push for microbiome medicine development

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GLP-1s: what is behind the variation in efficacy?

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Danger ahead: the growing threat of fungal disease and antifungal resistance

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Lost in fine print: how patient information leaflets are failing patients

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Why do women in England’s poorest areas have lower rates of HRT prescribing?

Opinion

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Core advanced credentialing: lessons from a hospital pilot programme

Female pharmacist looks at pill box within a pharmacy surrounded by pharmacy alert boxes floating in the art in blue and green and red

Are electronic prescribing systems as safe as we think?

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PJ view: Pharmacists must not be trapped by the promise of AI efficiencies

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Push for progress: what the rare diseases framework extension means for patients and the future of UK innovation

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

Can simulation help foundation trainee pharmacists prepare for prescribing?

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Pharmacy must protect its scientific identity

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How we led a quality driven diabetes switching programme for generic dapagliflozin

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Making pharmacy foundation training genuinely inclusive requires system‑level change

Learning & CPD

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Pharmacy Inside Jobs: ophthalmology

A senior black man in his 60s taking a Covid-19 lateral flow self-test at home, wearing an orange shirt and sat on a sofa

Supporting patients who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19

Supported content

Medics wearing PPE transport a patient into the emergency department of the Royal London Hospital in London, England

How to manage medicines during major incidents

Pharmacist consultation about migraines, young black woman patient listens to advice

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

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Diabetic retinopathy: screening and management

Close up of man person holding blister pack of Clopidogrel tablets pills tablet

Best practice for clopidogrel prescribing

Evaluating clinical trial eligibility criteria: recruitment methods, informed consent, control and blinding

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Evaluating clinical study methods: treatment considerations, outcomes, variables and measurements

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Evaluating study results: central tendency and variability and confidence intervals

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Evaluating study results: statistical inference, hypothesis testing and significance

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

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Understanding commonly used statistical tests

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Understanding correlation, regression and survival analysis

Royal College of Pharmacy news

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Proposed neighbourhood contracts too centred on general practice, Royal College of Pharmacy says

Outside of the Royal College of Pharmacy building

Royal College of Pharmacy launches national standard and credential for newly qualified pharmacist prescribers

A GP consults with a patient

GP-led walk-in pilot could duplicate existing services, says Royal College of Pharmacy

Letters

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