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November 2025, Vol 315, No 8003

Table of contents

Top news stories

Announcements & Tributes

Top news stories

A close-up of an older woman's hand with an IV

Half of pharmacists say they support assisted dying

A pack of medicines with labelling as per FMD rules

Barcode errors ‘potentially fatal’, warns patient safety commissioner

A pharmacist works on the computer at the front desk of a community pharmacy

Four in ten patients cannot have pharmacy consultations added to their records

The sign outside of an NHS facility

Cuts to integrated care boards could ‘set NHS ambitions back’

The inside of Boots pharmacy in the UK

Staffing costs ‘unsustainable’ for half of pharmacy businesses

The sign outside of a community pharmacy

Community pharmacies in Wales to receive 4% funding uplift

Features

In a warehouse, showing the transport of medicine to pharmacies.

Will new hub-and-spoke legislation change anything for pharmacies on the ground?

Weight-loss drugs: is social media promotion to teenagers still a problem?

Safety signs in the style of a wall poster with GLP1 injection pens, heart and gastrointestinal system with

How safe are GLP-1s?

A microscope view with bacteria growing on the left and nothing on the right, with a spine through the centre

Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?

How can the NHS make the most of the paediatric pharmacogenomics opportunity?

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The role of pharmacy in delivering the NHS ten-year health plan

Opinion

Yellow/gold coins on a blue gradient background showing prevention: blood pressure monitor, vaccines and pills

PJ view: A coherent strategy, with investment, is needed to truly shift healthcare from ‘sickness to prevention’

Sadik Al-Hassan stands in front of a Boots pharmacy exterior

Sadik Al-Hassan: ‘There’s a lot in pharmacy to be hopeful for’

Sustainable pharmacy practice can lead the way to a healthcare net zero

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A net-zero health plan starts with pharmacy

Desk with calculator, papers showing infusion calculations and a keyboard and monitor

An increased focus on calculation competency as a regulatory requirement has never been more critical

Learning & CPD

Graphic of two people in different shades of purple, one has their hand up against yellow light and the other holding their head in pain

Migraine: what do pharmacists need to know?

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Test your knowledge of ear, eye and oral health conditions

A table containing a cup of water, medicines and an orange

Management of cold and flu symptoms

How to implement a naloxone supply approach in hospitals

CT scan (computed tomography) of chest and abdominal organs in patient who has aortic dissection at descending aorta.

Diagnosis and management of aortic disorders

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Chronic kidney disease: impacts, challenges and pathways to improvement

New chronic heart failure guidance: what does it mean for practice?

Elderly man and doctor have a conversation in an office of GP surgery

Tips for effective lipid management consultations for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

People in a discussion about conflict resolution, with a green banner saying 'professional skills'

Conflict management for pharmacy managers: part two

Your RPS

People climbing and being helped onto RPS crest

Providing the protection all pharmacists need with RPS Professional Liability Insurance

Sponsored feature

Outside of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society building

National Pharmacy Board meeting: 6 November 2025

Joe smiles whilst leaning against a white table, with RPS cabinets in the background

Chair of Royal College of Pharmacy trustee board announced

RPS appoints director of education ahead of royal college transition

An adult holds the hand of a child patient in a hospital bed

Lead paediatric palliative care pharmacists should be part of local plans, says RPS

Amandeep Doll, director for England at the RPS

Pharmacy must be ‘embedded’ in the creation of neighbourhood health teams, MPs told

Royal Pharmaceutical Society headquarters in London

Hospital trust becomes first to achieve gold status under RPS Greener Pharmacy Toolkit

Someone buying something on their laptop with a debit or credit card in their hand

Questionnaire-only prescribing for high-risk conditions should not be allowed, says RPS

A picture of Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock

Pharmacy minister ‘immensely grateful’ for work of RPS

Outside of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society building

Participation from pharmacy in shaping future royal college strategy ‘critical’, RPS conference delegates told

RPS launches its first wellbeing surveys focusing on students and early-career pharmacists

Letters

Announcements & Tributes