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July 2024, Vol 313, No 7987
Top news stories
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Boots confirms store closure programme will be completed in summer 2024
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Seven in ten pharmacists say medicines shortages have put patients at risk in past six months
Features
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Less is more: the struggle to prioritise structured medication reviews
![Illustration of blueprints, with a clearly detailed NHS logo, plans for ambulances, beds and new graduates, but a sketchy child-like illustration of pharmacy](https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NHS_Plans-343x194.jpg)
State of pharmacy: what’s in store for the profession under Labour?
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Medical drone deliveries: a viable option for the NHS?
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How AI is transforming drug discovery
Opinion
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PJ view: An evidence-based approach to policy reform is needed from Streeting
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People with substance use disorders need more compassion from community pharmacy
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How we recycled over 20,000 inhalers so far in East Kent
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Jonathan Burton: ‘Our members need to be able to trust us to represent their interests’
![Illustration of a globe, with a thermometer stuck into the UK showing rising temperatures](https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Lead-6-343x194.jpg)
Taking the temperature of embedding environmental sustainability in pharmacy practice
![Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight](https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lead-2-e1698676192123-343x194.jpg)
The 2024 general election manifestos are lacking on ambitions for pharmacy
Learning & CPD
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Managing and reducing polypharmacy when prescribing
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Test your knowledge of infectious diseases
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Sepsis: diagnosis and management
![Doctor checking child heart rhythm with ECG halter monitor](https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/shutterstock_2144529311-343x194.jpg)
Paediatric arrhythmias: pathophysiology, types and pharmaceutical management
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How to incorporate strategic priorities into clinical pharmacy practice
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Consultation and communication skills for pharmacy OSCEs
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Preparing for OSCEs in pharmacy training
Your RPS
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Brendon Jiang elected as treasurer of the RPS
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Pharmacists in primary care should be ‘enabled to prioritise’ structured medication reviews, says RPS
![Paul Bennett, chief executive of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society](https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Paul-Bennett-RPS-17.png-343x194.jpg)
RPS asks for views on facilitated self-selection of P medicines
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Pharmacy bodies call on new health secretary to boost funding for sector
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National pharmacy board meetings: 19 June 2024
Letters
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Pharmacy is ready to deliver, if NHS IT is up to the job
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How the IPP talent management resource tool works
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Standardising and expanding pharmacy services in the emergency department improves safety for high-risk patients and increases standards of care
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To all Chelsea College graduates of 1975
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The narrow age range chosen for the RSV vaccination programme is disappointing