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March 2025, Vol 314, No 7995

Table of contents

Top news stories

Announcements & Tributes

Top news stories

A photo of pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock

Community pharmacy funding boosted by £617m in two-year contract

University students attending a lecture

Ethnicity awarding gap for UK pharmacy graduates has widened since COVID-19 pandemic

A doctor consults with a patient in the hospital

Only 15% of NHS trusts meet emergency department pharmacy support standards, investigation finds

Features

Illustration of a gold medal falling onto a silver medal on an angle, a white graduate atop the gold medal, a black graduate running away from the looming shadow of the falling medal

The ethnicity awarding gap: ‘not a problem that is easily solved’

Illustration of a microphone made out of a pill under a spotlight

Spotlight: MPharm ethnicity awarding gap rewidens

Illustration of an ambulance in front of an emergency room, with a window to the pharmacy area and silhouetted cutouts of absent pharmacists

The journey towards dedicated pharmacy support for all emergency departments

Illustration of a timeline of women throughout different life stages – child, puberty to adulthood, later adulthood and then post menopausal. The first three are coughing, with inhalers and contraceptive pills floating in the background.

Understanding the role of sex hormones in asthma

Opinion

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PJ view: Pharmacy schools must reclaim past progress in closing MPharm awarding gap

It is an exciting time to be a respiratory pharmacist — and we need more of them

Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight

Community pharmacy needs to be smart in contract negotiations following plans to abolish NHS England

Street scene of Independence Avenue, Ndola, Zambia

How a global health partnership with an NHS trust has transformed care for patients in Zambia

Illustration of a hand laying on another, calming, with another hand again resting on the top hand, a cycle of care

Foundation trainees need experiential placements in hospices to help manage an ageing population

Our team saves £1m per year on medicines in East Kent by keeping a close eye on value

Learning & CPD

Photo of the arm of a dark-skinned man receiving haemodialysis on a dark brown couch, with a burgundy blanket over his knees

Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis: an overview

Photo of a baby on a feeding tube, being fed formula, in a folder

Case-based learning: nutrition and feeding considerations for hospitalised neonates

Photo of a patient talking to a pharmacist within a pharmacy

How to design and implement effective health education interventions in primary care pharmacy settings

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Test your knowledge of respiratory tract diseases

Photo of an open bottle of prescription PrEP Pills spilling out onto a reflective blue table

The role of pharmacy in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

Photo of someone in a consultation setting with the pharmacist looking confused at the patient's response

Why patients might withhold information and what to do about it

Calculations

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Medication maths: dilutions

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Medication maths: calculations involving molecular weight

Your RPS

RPS members vote ‘yes’ to becoming Royal College of Pharmacy

Why should the RPS become a royal college?

A photo of Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell receives RPS Charter Award

UK chief pharmaceutical officers back RPS royal college proposals

Letters

Announcements & Tributes

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