Access provided by

July 2024, Vol 313, No 7987

Table of contents

Top news stories

Top news stories

Pharmacy2U website on laptop screen

Pharmacy2U facility rejected from pharmaceutical list dispenses more than 1 million NHS prescriptions per month

Closed Boots pharmacy in Crewe

Boots confirms store closure programme will be completed in summer 2024

Pharmacist organising prescriptions in a dispensary

Seven in ten pharmacists say medicines shortages have put patients at risk in past six months

Features

Illustration showing a magician performing the table cloth trick, to try and remove an oversized £50 note off the table, which is covered in medication toppling to the floor

Less is more: the struggle to prioritise structured medication reviews

State of pharmacy: what’s in store for the profession under Labour?

Illustration of a drone delivering a box with a pill on one side and a prescription symbol on the other

Medical drone deliveries: a viable option for the NHS?

Illustration of an industrial pill pharmacy discovery machine

How AI is transforming drug discovery

Opinion

PJ view: An evidence-based approach to policy reform is needed from Streeting

Illustration of a tablet in the middle of a spider's web, with a pair of scissors cutting through

People with substance use disorders need more compassion from community pharmacy

Illustration of a recycling symbol with an inhaler in the middle, and the three stages in the process looped into each of the arrows of the symbol

How we recycled over 20,000 inhalers so far in East Kent

Photo of Jonathan Burton in front of a blurred background

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

Taking the temperature of embedding environmental sustainability in pharmacy practice

Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight

The 2024 general election manifestos are lacking on ambitions for pharmacy

Learning & CPD

Illustration of an older woman sitting at a desk with a pharmacist, with a variety of pills between them

Managing and reducing polypharmacy when prescribing

A grid of six images from throughout the quiz, with a question mark in a circle superimposed on top

Test your knowledge of infectious diseases

Bacterial skin infection on a child's right lower leg

Sepsis: diagnosis and management

Doctor checking child heart rhythm with ECG halter monitor

Paediatric arrhythmias: pathophysiology, types and pharmaceutical management

Photo of two people looking at an ipad, with

How to incorporate strategic priorities into clinical pharmacy practice

Consultation group being observed

Consultation and communication skills for pharmacy OSCEs

Photo of a simulated medical environment for testing purposes

Preparing for OSCEs in pharmacy training

Research

Scuba diver over Mediterranean sponges in the Adriatic sea near Hvar island, Croatia.

Pharmaceuticals from marine sources: past, present and future

Your RPS

Brendan Jiang

Brendon Jiang elected as treasurer of the RPS

older woman discussing medication with medical practitioner

Pharmacists in primary care should be ‘enabled to prioritise’ structured medication reviews, says RPS

Paul Bennett, chief executive of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

RPS asks for views on facilitated self-selection of P medicines

Photo of Wes Streeting, who was announced as health secretary on 5 July 2024

Pharmacy bodies call on new health secretary to boost funding for sector

Illustration of a diverse group of people talking, with speech bubbles above their heads on a pink background

National pharmacy board meetings: 19 June 2024

Letters

Tributes