Carolyn Wickware

Executive Editor

Carolyn Wickware is Executive Editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal

Online pharmacy activity linked to 40 open fitness-to-practise cases, says GPhC

Presenting at The Pharmacy Show on 13 October 2023, Roz Gittins revealed that 68% of online pharmacies were found to meet all regulatory standards at inspection, 17 percentage points lower than for registered pharmacies overall.…

Government opens £400m investment programme to boost UK clinical trials

The investment programme will increase the UK’s capacity for clinical trials and give researchers greater access to the latest equipment and technology, the government said.…

State of pharmacy: what’s in store for the profession under Labour?

Labour’s plans for pharmacy have only been roughly sketched out, but the party’s track record — alongside demands from the sector — can provide some insight into how the planned NHS reform may affect pharmacy.…

Behavioural medicine lecturer wins award for early-career pharmacy research

Sion Scott was selected as the winner of the 2024 Outstanding Pharmacy Early-Career Researcher Award for his research using behavioural science to facilitate routine deprescribing of medicines where the risks outweigh their benefits.…

More than a fifth of community pharmacies have cut opening hours in one year

Exclusive: The most common drop in opening hours was between 2 and 4 hours per week, with some pharmacies reducing hours by more than 32 hours per week.…

Scaling back: the pharmacies cutting opening hours to avoid closure

More than a fifth of community pharmacies have scaled back their opening hours since 2022, worsening fears over patient access to pharmaceutical services.…

Medicines shortages reported to government increase by almost 70% since 2021

Exclusive: The government logged 137 reports of medicines shortages on average each month in 2023, compared with an average of 82 each month in 2021.…

Pharmacy technicians could supply naloxone without prescription under government proposals

The government has expanded on a previous consultation proposing to enable pharmacists to supply naloxone without a prescription.…

Burnout among pharmacy professionals needs to be addressed at ‘systemic level’, RPS report finds

The report stated that individuals should seek to prioritise their wellbeing, but highlighted that many factors affecting staff wellbeing have been created by the healthcare system.…

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

Compassionate use schemes offered by pharmaceutical companies are struggling to live up to their name, as data from a third of acute trusts reveal an inequitable provision of medicines through schemes across England.…