News NHS England announces funded training places for critical care pharmacists The UK Clinical Pharmacy Association has been contracted to provide 200 continuing professional development places for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from April 2024, and a yet-to-be-announced pharmacy school will offer a pharmacist adult critical care pathway.…Published: 6 March 2024
News MHRA reviewing safety of asthma drug as Yellow Card reports increase The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is reviewing montelukast after there were 143 reports of psychiatric disorders associated with the drug in 2023.…Published: 5 March 2024
News More than 2,500 items dispensed since electronic prescribing went live in Wales The items were dispensed at a test site in north Wales, with assurance of the systems used expected in mid-March 2024…Published: 5 March 2024
News Almost 40% of older adults with polypharmacy given inappropriate prescription when starting treatment for type 2 diabetes, study finds In older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus but no polypharmacy, 6.5% of patients were given a potentially inappropriate prescription.…Published: 4 March 2024
News Training pathway for clinical pharmacy academics should be in place by 2030 NHS England-commissioned report made short-, medium- and long-term recommendations to “support the embedding of research at all stages of a pharmacy professional’s career”.…Published: 4 March 2024
News Alton Gilkes (1959–2023)On 25 December 2023, Alton Gilkes MPharmS, aged 64 years, of London, England. Mr Gilkes registered with the Society in 1983. …Published: 4 March 2024
News RPS calls for authorisation of pharmacy technicians to supervise pharmacies to be documented In response to the government's consultation on pharmacy supervision, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said the authorisation of a pharmacy technician to prepare and assemble medicines should be documented to protect both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.…Published: 1 March 2024
News NICE requests more evidence on sickle cell disease treatment voxelotor The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence initially rejected voxelotor for NHS use on the grounds that clinical trial evidence did not support cost effectiveness.…Published: 29 February 2024
News Increase in patient nominations for distance-selling pharmacies slows drastically Exclusive: The increase in the number of patients nominating a distance-selling pharmacy slowed to 4% over the past two years, down from almost 100% in the previous two years.…Published: 29 February 2024
News Poorly controlled asthma eight times worse for greenhouse gases, study finds Researchers found poorly controlled asthma contributed the same amount of excess greenhouse gases as that of 124,000 homes in the UK each year.…Published: 28 February 2024