Katherine Price

Katherine Price is a freelance healthcare journalist.

GPs back proposal to scrap community pharmacy blood pressure checks

The motion aimed to address community pharmacies’ unfair expectation to seek funding from schemes such as blood pressure checks “due to underfunding of their core national contract”.…

Nearly 92% of atrial fibrillation patients in England anticoagulated, says NHS adviser

The UK Health Security Agency has achieved the figure five years ahead of its original 2029 target year by offering anticoagulation to nine in ten patients with atrial fibrillation.…

Trade association for OTC manufacturers launches series of case studies to promote self-care

The Proprietary Association of Great Britain’s self-care compendium is aimed to encourage use of community pharmacy and reduce the burden of minor ailments on integrated care systems.…

Chief pharmaceutical officers say it is ‘entirely reasonable’ for pharmacists to take position on assisted dying bill

A joint statement warned that the outcome of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill must not undermine provision of good end-of-life care and work by palliative care clinicians.…

NICE may be ‘systematically undervaluing’ medicines for severe conditions, says ABPI

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry is urging the government and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to “show greater flexibility when assessing medicines for severe conditions”.…

Pharmacist-led sore throat service reduces antibiotic prescribing, study results suggest

Study results showed that even in "worst-case scenario” modelling, the sore throat test-and-treat service saved at least 69 GP consultations for every 100 patients with sore throat symptoms.…

Number of online job adverts for pharmacists fell by one-fifth in 2024

There was a 21% drop in online job adverts for pharmacists in England, Wales and Scotland between the second quarters of 2023 and 2024.…

New pharmacy school to open at University of Suffolk

Exclusive: The university has said that it has begun the General Pharmaceutical Council process to accredit a pharmacy degree.…

First community pharmacist awarded RPS advanced practice credential

Commenting on the award, Maxine McCabe encouraged other community pharmacists to pursue advanced credentialing and said “it’s challenging but very rewarding”.…

More appeals to open pharmacies turned down in 2024 than in each of two previous years

Exclusive: Out of the 103 appeals ruled on by NHS Resolution between October 2021 and September 2024, 60% were rejected.…