Carolyn Wickware

Executive Editor

Carolyn Wickware is Executive Editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal

Assessing environmental impact of medicines financially ‘catastrophic’ for pharmaceutical industry

Assessing the environmental risks of a new medicine as part of the risk-benefit assessment during market authorisation would be “catastrophic” for the pharmaceutical industry, an environmental scientist from manufacturer AstraZeneca has said.…

Keith Ridge to lead government review of ‘problematic polypharmacy’ in the NHS

The government has ordered a review of overprescribing in the NHS to improve the safety of patient care.…

More than 2,000 pharmacies to offer NHS 111 minor ailments service across England

Around 2,000 pharmacies have registered to offer a minor ailments service with referrals from NHS 111 as part of an extended pilot project from November 2018, NHS England has said.…