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‘I want to change the perception of pharmacy’ — a day in the life of a community hospital pharmacist

Hospital pharmacist Patryk Poniatowski shares a typical day working with the multidisciplinary team at a peripheral community hospital in South Wales.…

Scottish government offers 4% pay rise to NHS staff

If accepted, the pay increase will be backdated to 1 December 2020 to recognise the pressure put on staff by the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Labour has no plans to nationalise hospital pharmacy, says shadow pharmacy minister

Exclusive: Alex Norris, the shadow pharmacy minister, said there are no plans to bring hospital pharmacies run by private companies back into NHS ownership.…

How the introduction of an electronic pharmaceutical care plan improved hospital inpatient care

Around 237 million medication errors occur in England each year​[1]​. When patients transition between primary and secondary care, they are at significant risk of experiencing unintended changes to their medication​[2]​. One approach to reduce these errors is the adoption of technology, incl…

Some aseptic pharmacy services to be centralised, Welsh government says

Exclusive: Three centralised facilities have received £67m in initial funding as part of the government's 'Transforming Access to Medicines' plan.…

Government proposal of 1% pay rise for NHS staff ‘callous’, hospital pharmacists’ body says

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has criticised the proposal, saying that it will "continue to make the case strongly" for NHS staff in England to be given a higher pay rise.…

Steve Tomlin: ‘If two-year-olds can swallow a piece of Lego, they can swallow tablets’

Great Ormond Street Hospital's chief pharmacist talks about the management of paediatric patients, using 3D printing and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his team.…

Risk of mortality drops in COVID-19 patients given anticoagulation within a day of hospital admission, research finds

COVID-19 patients who received prophylactic anticoagulation within 24 hours of hospital admission had a 27% decreased risk for 30-day mortality, compared with those who did not.…

‘Beyond our wildest dreams’ – CAR-T therapies in multiple myeloma

CAR-T therapies have been licensed in the UK since 2018 for the treatment of B cell lymphoma. But with positive results emerging for their use in multiple myeloma, and the promise of potential in solid tumours, excitement around CAR-T continues to grow.…

Almost a third of hospitals report ‘complete outages’ of medicines during COVID-19 pandemic

Data from 98 NHS trusts in England showed that there were shortages of some first-line critical care medicines during the COVID-19 pandemic, with several other drugs also being in short supply.…