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RPS condemns ‘unjust’ exclusion of pharmacy students from government support fund

Pharmacy students are not currently eligible for the NHS learning support fund, which offers help for healthcare students on practice placements.…

Published: 26 September 2023

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Welsh government backs RPS Wales plan to transform hospital pharmacy

The Welsh government has accepted all 36 recommendations made by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales in a review of hospital pharmacy in the country.…

Published: 21 September 2023

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RPS backs call to legalise safe consumption facilities for drug users

Claire Anderson, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said that providing consumption facilities for drug users would “provide an opportunity for health professionals to engage in treatment and prevention”.…

Published: 6 September 2023

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RPS Scotland collaborates on final version of ‘blue-green’ prescribing strategy

The strategy is aimed at reducing pharmaceutical pollution through prescribing nature-based health interventions and medications that are less environmentally harmful.…

Published: 5 September 2023

Opinion

Tase Oputu: ‘We want pharmacy to be a really attractive profession’

The Pharmaceutical Journal talks to Tase Oputu, the newly elected chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s England Pharmacy Board, about her decision to stand in the board elections, her priorities for the role and her focus on inclusion and diversity.…

Published: 21 August 2023

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RPS says codeine linctus should be made a prescription-only medicine, in response to MHRA consultation

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says reclassification will make it easier to monitor codeine linctus use, because it will be recorded in GP systems.…

Published: 17 August 2023

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Community pharmacy supervision does not mean overseeing ‘individual transactions’, pharmacy bodies determine

The cross-sector group of seven pharmacy sector organisations says public, primary and secondary legislation should be updated to reflect its supervision recommendations.…

Published: 1 August 2023

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Lecturer wins The Pharmaceutical Journal and RPS’s inaugural early-career researcher award

Victoria Speed, a senior anticoagulation pharmacist and clinical informatician, was also recognised as ‘highly commended’.…

Published: 21 July 2023

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Claire Anderson re-elected as RPS president for a second term

Speaking at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Assembly meeting, Claire Anderson said she had decided to stand for president again to offer the Society “much needed continuity”.…

Published: 12 July 2023

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Erutase Oputu elected chair of the RPS English Pharmacy Board

Andrew Carruthers was re-elected as chair of the Scottish Pharmacy Board, while Geraldine McCaffrey was elected as chair of the Welsh Pharmacy Board.…

Published: 21 June 2023