Almost 15% increase in number of successful pharmacy degree applicants There were 5,240 people accepted onto an MPharm course in 2025, up 14.7% from the 4,570 acceptances in 2024.…
RPS announces elections for Royal College of Pharmacy Each national pharmacy advisory council is aimed to develop pharmacy policy and practice, as well as support professional development activity in their respective nations.…
A patient’s sex may influence best choice of fracture medication, study finds Researchers found that males demonstrated an association between bisphosphonate use and risk of subsequent fracture, but females did not.…
GPhC receives ‘highest ever recorded’ number of concerns The majority of the concerns received by the General Pharmaceutical Council in the second quarter of 2025/2026 related to customer service issues and dispensing errors.…
Regulator appoints clinical fellow to understand attainment gap within pharmacy education As the new Scottish clinical leadership pharmacy fellow, Niketa Platt will work with the GPhC’s equality, diversity and inclusion team to gauge which factors may hinder differential attainment in pharmacy.…
Cystic fibrosis combination therapy cuts chronic medication use Researchers reported that patients who were given Kaftrio (elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor; Vertex) reduced their use of 4 respiratory therapies after 54 months.…
NICE threshold increase must not hit generics market, Lords told In a letter sent to Baroness Morris, pharmacy leaders recommended a review of the role of drug tariff pricing and retained margins to lower the number of medicines supplied to the NHS at a loss.…
ADHD prescriptions rise by 5% in three months Data from NHS Business Services Authority show that from July to September 2025, almost 300,000 patients were prescribed medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.…
Community pharmacists should be able to amend prescriptions, says RPS In response to a government consultation on offering greater dispensing flexibilities for community pharmacists, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society noted that pharmacists in Scotland can already do this without comparative increases in prescribing costs.…
Participation in commercial clinical trials falls for fourth year in a row, finds ABPI An Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry report showed that although the number of trial participants increased, the proportion of people recruited to commercial trials was dropping.…
