Bridging the mental health gap: the role of pharmacists Although significant progress has been made in recruiting pharmacists into community mental health teams, there is wide variation across England and more work needs to be done to embed pharmacy support for patients with severe mental illness.…
Andrea Leadsom: ‘Pharmacy First is such a big win’ The pharmacy minister tells The Pharmaceutical Journal about her view on mitigating medicine shortages and how online pharmacies can solve patient access issues where pharmacies have closed.…
More than 100 extra pharmacists employed in mental health community teams since 2019/2020 Exclusive: The Pharmaceutical Journal has found that more than 100 pharmacists have been recruited into community mental health teams across 36 NHS trusts in the past five years.…
RPS launches updated patient safety professional standards The standards are designed to help pharmacy professionals meet regulatory standards and were developed in collaboration with the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and the Pharmacy Forum Northern Ireland.…
More than 125,000 Pharmacy First consultations delivered in its first month Pharmacy minister Andrea Leadsom also confirmed that monthly data on the number of Pharmacy First consultations will be published from May 2024.…
Pharmacists certified 1.4% of ‘fit notes’ from GP practices, NHS data show In the same period, 91.3% of fit notes were certified by doctors, 6.7% by nurses, 0.6% by physiotherapists and 0.03% by occupational therapists.…
Pharmacist coordinating UK participation in global penicillin allergy labelling study Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust will be the first UK health service to join the ‘International Network of Antibiotic Allergy Nations’ study.…
Fall in uptake for funded mental health pharmacy training Exclusive: Half of the places on the University of Bradford's ‘Specialist mental health pharmacist training pathway’ for 2024/2025 have been filled.…
More than 60 community pharmacies access cancer red-flag symptom card scheme Exclusive: The ‘Not normal for you?’ scheme enables pharmacists to identify patient behaviours that may signal cancer and refer patients for red-flag symptoms.…
EMA finds no link between GLP-1 receptor agonists and suicidal thoughts The European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee has confirmed that no update to product information is warranted.…
