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February 2026, Vol 316, No 8006

Table of contents

Top news stories

Announcements & Tributes

Top news stories

GP consultation taking place between female doctor and female patient

GPs should have dedicated, monitored email address for pharmacy communications, says new contract

Someone receiving flu jab

‘Pharmacies ready’ as GPs threaten to stop providing flu jabs

An older man takes a tablet with a glass of water

NICE widens access to SGLT-2 inhibitors and GLP-1s in updated type 2 diabetes guidance

Emergency Department at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire

Hospitals should identify and prescribe time-critical medicines within 24 hours of emergency admission

A pharmacist checks medication on a computer

Coroner raises concern over access to patient records for pharmacists in Wales

Jhoots Pharmacy in Bristol, UK

All ex-Jhoots pharmacies taken over by Allied Pharmacies to reopen

Henrietta Hughes, the patient safety commissioner

Patient safety commissioner to approach PM over ‘disappointing’ delay to valproate compensation

Features

Collage of pharmacy cross, Westminster Holyrood and Welsh dragon, images of MPs

Special report: pharmacists’ views on assisted dying

The outside of a Jhoots pharmacy on a high street. Background is in black and white

Jhoots: isolated issues or the sign of a community pharmacy sector in trouble?

Pharmacy Inside Jobs: astropharmacy

Comic book style artwork, each window shows mpox related things. PPE, vaccines, arm with rash, mpox virus morphology and cladogram showing split into clade I and II.

Everything you need to know about mpox

Blood pressure measurement in progress

Prescribing pathfinders: what’s stopping community pharmacy delivering care for long-term conditions?

Panels showing injector pen, warning sign, pancreas, muscles, heart, bone, a runner and knife and fork

Everything you need to know about GLP-1s for weight loss

Opinion

Pharmacist vaccinating 18 month old

PJ view: Pharmacies can help improve vaccine uptake — why does the system make it so difficult?

Dark blue background, in the foreground is a page with the 3 10 year plan categories represented and another smaller page with the pharmacy green cross

The NHS ten-year plan has missed the role of pharmacy professionals in community health services

3 Women stand with name badges on a purple background. Only their hair and clothes are visible, they are indicated by negative space

How a change in perspective can help women in midlife

Cover of JPP on a blue ribbon with a dark background

An improved pharmacokinetics parameter to measure dose proportionality

Injector pen with a shadow of a fork

The dark side of the ‘miracle jab’: why eating disorder safety cannot be an afterthought

Key illuminating a scene in a consultation room, where a pharmacist is talking to a patient and a preceptor is watching on and listening

Preceptorship: the key to unlocking advanced pharmacist practice

Collage of green pharmacy cross, clock, phone with nodes coming out of it, woman doing yoga, tea and sandwiches

The unexpected importance of workplace resilience in pharmacy practice

Learning & CPD

Elderly woman with walking stick ascends stairs. Illustration in black and white with orange background

Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when prescribing anticoagulation in an older patient with falls risk

Tablets being crushed in a pestle and mortar

Prescribing unlicensed and off-label medicines

Man at desk looks at computer screen while holding mouse. On screen is NHS prescription service

Principles of effective prescription writing for pharmacist prescribers

Pharmacist standing at pharmacy with tablet in hands and having consultation with senior woman

Case-based learning: menopause and HRT consultations

Supported content

Person at desk with lots of papers and computer, lots of people behind in waiting area

Using pharmaceutical prioritisation tools to improve patient care

Queue of people at medicines counter at boots the chemist, letter written over the image: Professional Skills

Improving resilience in pharmacy practice: reducing the burden of multitasking

Your RPS

An older person with an IV holds a loved one's hand

RPS backs consensus statement on assisted dying protections for clinicians in Scotland

Pharmacist scanning a medicine box behind the counter

RPS calls for mandatory 2D barcodes on medicines packs

Woman stocking pharmacy shelves with medication

UKPPLAB sets out proposals for wider royal college membership

Royal Pharmaceutical Society headquarters in London

RPS calls for pharmacy students to be included in NHS bursary scheme

Candidates for the inaugural National Pharmacy Advisory Council elections

Catherine and Gary portraits on a dark green background with the new journal cover shown

‘From the bench to the patient’: the relaunch of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology

Letters

Polymyalgia rheumatica and steroid tapering: feasibility of a pharmacy technician-led service in primary care

Announcements & Tributes