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December 2023, Vol 311, No 7980

Table of contents

Top news stories

Announcements & tributes

Top news stories

Photo of a box of 50mg Tramadol capsules

Coroner advises NHS England to warn prescribers about interaction of tramadol and warfarin

Doctor administering injection in the arm

Fewer than 5,000 people prescribed anticholesterol drug inclisiran in primary care as of July 2023

Pharmacy. Technician preparing prescriptions at a pharmacy.

Pharmacy technicians may prepare and dispense medicines without supervision under government proposals

medicines on shelves in medicines cabinet

Life cycle adjustment left out of statutory scheme on pricing of NHS medicines

Features

Illustration with the numbers 2023 in the middle of a stylised clock, with the PJ Pod pill microphone on the left of frame

Revisiting 2023: a look back at the year in pharmacy

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How has 2023 stacked up for the pharmacy sector?

Illustration showing a complex machine, well-oiled that approves papers and releases them into the world

Inclisiran: the ‘extremely unusual’ political influence behind the novel drug’s approval

Illustration of a technician reading into an aseptic isolator, in which they are moving logistic trucks between supplier to factory, to hospital, with people disgruntled and waiting at each point.

Routine delays: the cancer services struggling to treat patients on time

Opinion

Illustration of a scientist working over a black shrouded table, with a bureaucrat to the right waiting for the unseen result

PJ view: Transparency in the science behind government policy is vital

Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight

The vision for supervision

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How we are igniting change through the chief pharmaceutical officer’s Fellowship scheme

Parastou Donyai

Elevating research within pharmacy

Illustration of a winged pharmacy in a rusty cage on a blue background

Community pharmacies’ full potential is trapped in an iron cage of bureaucracy

Illustration showing the five areas – Continuity of maternity care, severe mental illness, chronic respiratory disease, early cancer diagnosis, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) case finding and management – in NHS England’s Core20PLUS5 health inequalities strategy

Pharmacy has a role in innovation adoption in healthcare systems

Learning & CPD

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Learning and CPD: 2023 in review

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Top ten articles of 2023 from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s research journals

Photo of a man putting testosterone cream on his skin in a folder, with the words

Case-based learning: testosterone deficiency

Stylised illustration of a pharmacist taking someone's blood pressure

Introduction to clinical assessment for prescribers

Image collage of different topics from the quiz with a large question mark in a circle in the centre

Test yourself: the 2023 CPD and Learning quiz

Photo of a man in a cast and sling for a broken arm

Pharmaceutical considerations for fracture management in adults

prostate cancer scan

Prostate cancer: recognition and diagnosis

Women to Watch

Exceptional pharmacy professionals hailed in The Pharmaceutical Journal’s 2023 ‘Women to Watch’ list

Abeer Aamir

Ifesinachi Anyamene

Chloe Barclay

Elaine Ferguson

Maryam Jetha

Sobha Sharma Kandel

Sumayyah Khalid

Louise Missen

Anisha Patel

Nyrah Saleem

Runa Salim

Announcements & tributes