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August 2023, Vol 311, No 7976

Table of contents

Top news stories

Learning, CPD & Research

Tributes & Letters

Top news stories

chemotherapy intravenous drip in patient's hand

Pharmacy teams told to ‘urgently’ order unlicensed imports of chemotherapy drugs in shortage warning

Community pharmacy counter with a queue of people waiting

Pharmacist vacancy rates double in one year in community pharmacy

Queue of people at a pharmacy counter

More than 800 pharmacy technicians to be given training in dispensing and clinical skills

Features

Stylised photo showing people waiting in a pharmacy with dotted lines showing where absent staff members should be

Special report: the community pharmacy workforce crisis

An illustration of a toy set of a medical centre, community pharmacy and hospital, with a path for trainee wooden toy pharmacists but there's a backlog to them getting to the toy sets and a suited arm opening gates to let them through.

Can community pharmacy meet the demands of training more pharmacists?

Illustration of many different winding, and most broken, paths to an unknown medicine that appears to be celebrated.

Uncompassionate use: the inconsistent offering of life-saving unlicensed medicines

An illustration of a smiling dispensing computer with a complicated network of rails in the background on the path to dispensing, dodging biohazards, fire and poison before finally dispensing to the pharmacist.

AI chatbots in pharmacy: a brave new world or looming threat?

An illustration of a woman with a sensor on her arm leading to a watch or belt-mounted device, with a wavering and then flat red line in the background showing the levelling out of a precision dosing device.

Are wearable devices the future of precise antibiotic dosing?

Opinion

Parastou Donyai

Protecting our children’s future from global health threats

Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight

For want of a jab… are vaccines out of fashion for NHS England?

Isometric video game-esque illustration of a town where many arrows lead from hospital, a gym, NHS headquarters and a GP practice to a lit up pharmacy at the heart of the community.

Community pharmacy has much to contribute to the goals of the ‘NHS long-term plan’

Illustration echoing Michelangelo's Creation of Adam image in the Sistine Chapel, with the hand of a person with a catheter in it being handed a pixelated ampoule by a suited hand, with a question mark at the point of the handover.

PJ view: Inequity of access to medicines for compassionate use must end

Illustration of two queues – one diverse and in a straight, level line at the bottom, the other white and privileged like an ascending line chart – meeting at a table where a student takes blood pressure readings, the queues melding as they exit.

Clinical placements can give pharmacy students a real-life lesson in health inequalities

Photo of a woman with a clipboard handing a glass of water to an elderly woman in a home.

How pharmacist-led medication reviews reduced polypharmacy for patients on a virtual ward

Photo of hands in large rubber gloves inside an aseptic unit

Becoming a product approver for an NHS aseptic unit

Learning, CPD & Research

3d illustration of benign prostatic hyperplasia

Benign prostatic hyperplasia

Photo of a young pharmacist taking medication off a shelf, with the words

How to support pharmacists during hospital rotations

Photo of a pill resting on top of an ECG chart which shows escalating beats

Do antihypertensive medicines increase the risk of depression?

Photo of a dentist administering anaesthetic to a patient with a needle.

Anticholinergic adverse effects and oral health

Close up image of an abscess on an elbow

Skin and soft tissue infections: risk factors and presentations

Your RPS

Photo of Tase Oputu – ewly elected chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s England Pharmacy Board – looking warmly at the camera

Tase Oputu: ‘We want pharmacy to be a really attractive profession’

Someone pouring codeine linctus onto a teaspoon

RPS says codeine linctus should be made a prescription-only medicine, in response to MHRA consultation

Tributes & Letters