News Pharmacist prescribing pilots to test new services for depression and minor illnesses Pharmacies participating in pilots for the pharmacist independent prescribing service in north west England will be able to prescribe for minor infections, as well as offer additional services for other conditions.…Published: 10 May 2023
News Pharmacy technicians able to carry out blood pressure checks under new service directions The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee said that technicians will also be able to deliver smoking cessation services.…Published: 12 April 2023
News Weight loss drug semaglutide will ‘soon’ be available to eligible patients, says NICE Trial results showed that participants taking semaglutide lost an average of 12% more of their body weight compared with placebo.…Published: 8 March 2023
Feature Should all adults be considered for statin therapy? A closer look at the arguments for and against the latest changes to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines for statin therapy.…Published: 25 January 2023
News Potential for additional 6,000 heart attacks and strokes owing to COVID-19 pandemic, researchers estimate Prescriptions of antihypertensives dropped sharply from March 2020, which could result in an additional 2,300 heart attacks and 3,500 strokes.…Published: 20 January 2023
News Draft NICE guidance says statins can now be considered for people at lower risk of cardiovascular disease The draft guidance advises prescribers to discuss how to manage all other modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors before offering statin treatment.…Published: 12 January 2023
News A third of patients have high blood pressure under community pharmacy case-finding service NHS England has listed the service under a range of 'high-impact interventions' and says that pharmacies could carry out 2.5 million blood pressure checks in 2023/2024.…Published: 1 December 2022
News Incentive schemes behind inhaler and edoxaban switching targets should be scrapped, say MPs In a report on the future of general practice, MPs said it was clear the current target and incentive system "is not having the desired effect on outcomes".…Published: 21 October 2022
Feature ‘I could not wait to get back into clinical pharmacy and seeing patients’ Kate Jenkins, practice pharmacist, The Practice of Health, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan…Published: 6 October 2022
News Some patients switched to edoxaban without being properly informed, pharmacists say Exclusive: Primary care pharmacists have revealed that patients are being switched to edoxaban without being informed or when it is not clinically appropriate.…Published: 31 August 2022
