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PJ view: Strengthen the pharmacy frontline to secure the future of NHS healthcare

This month, The Pharmaceutical Journal is launching a dedicated campaign aiming to champion solutions for the pharmacy workforce crisis.…

Published: 30 April 2025

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RPS to launch development programme for prescribing pharmacists

For each of the six themes that will be covered as part of the programme, the Society has said that participants will receive “exclusive learning content, including podcasts, blogs and webinars on essential prescribing topics”.…

Published: 30 April 2025

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Homecare medicines services need electronic prescribing and access to records, report urges

The General Pharmaceutical Council has suggested that UK national health organisations should ensure that homecare pharmacy teams have the same access to clinical systems as other parts of patients’ care team.…

Published: 22 April 2025

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How NHS England is striving for inclusive pharmacy practice

Members of the ‘Inclusive pharmacy practice’ delivery group explain how the initiative is working to address health inequalities in England and create an inclusive environment within the pharmacy sector.…

Published: 14 April 2025

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Scottish government offers hospital pharmacists 8% pay increase over two years

The proposed pay offer to NHS Agenda for Change staff amounts to an £701m investment and is promised to remain above the consumer price index inflation rate in 2025/2026 and 2026/2027.…

Published: 10 April 2025

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Green badge scheme for pharmacies launched by RPS

The Greener Pharmacy Toolkit, commissioned by NHS England, allows pharmacies to monitor and lower their environmental impact.…

Published: 8 April 2025

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Patients in emergency departments should be supported to self-administer time-critical medicines, says royal college

Advice produced with the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association urges that emergency departments should hold self-administered time-critical medicines to the same monitoring and governance oversight standards as non self-administered medicines.…

Published: 7 April 2025

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Phasing in multi-sector placements offers another chance to review foundation training

NHS England has postponed mandatory multi-sector placements for pharmacist trainees, which allows time for rethinking the funding model and structure of the foundation training year.…

Published: 2 April 2025

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NHS England seeking supplier for foundation course content

The contract will run from 2025 when NHS England takes over responsibility for the foundation pharmacist training programme from the General Pharmaceutical Council.…

Published: 1 April 2025

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Medicines derived from UK blood plasma distributed to NHS hospitals for ‘first time in a generation’

More than 250,000 litres of plasma from UK donors have been sent to human protein product manufacturer Octapharma to produce NHS medicines for the first time since a 1998 ban.…

Published: 28 March 2025