March 2025, Vol 314, No 7995

Letters

• RPS charter changes do not guarantee a pharmacist-led Board of Trustees

• Reject the royal college proposals to keep a Society for the benefit of pharmacists

• What’s a profession without a professional body?

• Support royal college status and enjoy a bright future

• Converting textual dose instructions to structured data using Microsoft Excel

• What are the views of the RPS and Pharmaceutical Press on AI training using copyrighted materials?

Announcements & Tributes

• Call for Society Fellowship Nominations

• Wai Yong (1949–2024)

• Anne Hartley (1936–2025)

• Ian Irving (1940–2025)

• Kalaivathani Gurunathan (1974–2023)

• Evelyn Adams (1954–2024)

• Pharmacy funding for future health crises a ‘necessity’, says COVID-19 inquiry report

• UKHSA says 20,000 meningitis vaccines for private purchase will be available to pharmacies ‘within 48 hours’

• Community pharmacies urged to plan ahead for Easter bank holidays with methadone safety resources

• Everything you need to know about oral nicotine pouches

• Wholesalers ‘working through’ increased demand for meningitis vaccination

• Scottish Parliament votes against assisted dying bill amid concerns over pharmacist protections

• RPS publishes pharmacogenomics prescribing resource for all prescribers  

• Global regulators set out principles for safe AI across the medicines lifecycle