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August 2024, Vol 313, No 7988
Top news stories
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Pharmacy Schools Council warns of academic staff shortage amid ‘uncontrolled increase’ in MPharm courses
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More than 2,000 patients tested in UK’s first routine genotyping project for clopidogrel prescribing
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NHS to commission 50 pharmacies to offer RSV vaccinations from September 2024
Features
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What will it take to fix pharmacy’s stubbornly unchanged ethnicity pay gap?
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Special report: the stressors burning out pharmacists
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Is the General Pharmaceutical Council making progress to improve its fitness-to-practise processes?
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Closing the ethnicity gap in pharmacogenomics
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Changes in migraine treatment: how new classes of drugs can provide additional options for patients and prescribers
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The path to independent prescribing
Supported contentOpinion
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PJ view: Current testing for genetic variants risks undoing years of progress on health inequalities
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The unregulated semaglutide prescribing circus
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Encouraging more pharmacists to become DPPs
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Lessons from testing 2,300 patients at the UK’s first CYP2C19 genotyping system
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Is research really an exclusive activity or one we can all embrace?
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Bringing high-quality diagnostics for COPD and asthma to north Wales
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Will the government’s apparent NHS reset address pharmacy’s important issues?
Learning & CPD
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Health psychology and advanced communication skills for prescribers
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Schizophrenia: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
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Test your knowledge of diabetes
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Best practice principles for inclusive care of transgender and non-binary patients
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Croup: diagnosis and management
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How to assess mental health when prescribing
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Communicating risk: how pharmacists should use data in conversations with patients
Your RPS
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Pharmacy bodies call for action to ensure access to designated prescribing practitioners
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Pharmacists should have right to choose whether to be involved in assisted dying, says RPS
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Latest Medicine, Ethics and Practice includes expanded sections on prescribing and valproate safety
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Royal Pharmaceutical Society Assembly Meeting: July 2024
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