Pharmacies must be part of national HIV prevention strategies, researchers urge The authors of a policy briefing ran the first pilot of pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery through five community pharmacies in England.…
Patients waiting up to three weeks for essential medicines because pharmacists cannot make substitutions A survey conducted by the National Pharmacy Association also revealed that 97% of pharmacies reported patients waiting at least once per day for medicines that were out of stock.…
First ‘NICE-curated’ clinical guideline announced The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said the Duchenne muscular dystrophy guideline would be followed by others to provide “useful and useable guidance in an efficient, timely and sustainable manner”.…
Electronic prescription service fully rolled out to prisons NHS England’s electronic prescription service will now allow digital prescriptions to be given to prisoners on their release.…
Government removes prescribing restrictions to allow certain medicines to be prescribed outside of flu season The changes to prescribing regulations enable GPs and pharmacies to prescribe oseltamivir and zanamivir without a patient-specific direction.…
Pharmacies ‘likely’ to be involved in providing chickenpox vaccination programme The measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine will become part of the routine infant vaccination schedule from January 2026.…
First home-based digital technologies approved for cardiac rehabilitation The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said digital technologies could offset the low uptake of traditional cardiac rehabilitation programmes.…
‘Sub-therapeutic’ dose of antipsychotic contributed to patient death, coroner finds An area coroner for Essex has expressed concerns over a female patient’s management.…
MHRA approves UK’s first immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes Teplizumab (Tzield; Sanofi) has been approved by the MHRA for delaying the progression of type 1 diabetes mellitus.…
Coroner ‘concerned’ over lack of national policy on medication storage in prisons A prisoner at HMP Guys Marsh in Dorset died after taking non-prescribed drugs in combination with illicitly brewed ‘hooch’.…
