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October 2026, Vol 317, No 8014

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Top news stories

Royal College of Pharmacy news

Top news stories

A green cross sign in a community pharmacy

Community pharmacists can prescribe outside of existing Pharmacy First age limits, NHS England confirms

A UK health worker solidarity banner calling for a boycott of Teva Pharmaceuticals, to get Palantir out of the NHS and to stop censoring Palestine, positioned putside the encampment facing the US Embassy in Nine Elms, London. The Community Camp for Palestine marks two years of continuous presence at its encampment site. Protesters attend rallies and demonstrations calling for Palestinian rights and an end to the war in Gaza.

Royal College of Pharmacy cuts ties with Teva UK ahead of upcoming annual conference

A close-up of injections containing rapid-acting Insulin (NovoRapid) (left) and long-acting insulin (Levemir). Photo credit should read: Katie Collins/EMPICS/Alamy

Patient safety alert issued as insulin treatment switching lags behind discontinuation deadline

A man injects himself in the abdomen with a weight-loss pen

Triple agonist drug retatrutide shows 21% weight loss in patients with diabetes

Nine in ten patients had ‘clinically relevant’ genetic variation in pharmacogenomics pilot

Boots sign at a store

Boots to be acquired by Canadian investors

A person receives a vaccination in their upper arm

Chikungunya vaccine withdrawn after safety review

Features

‘More than four walls’: the push to upgrade pharmacy consultation rooms

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A forgotten supplement: why fewer women are taking folic acid before pregnancy

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How to solve the enduring pharmacy degree awarding gap

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Neighbourhood health centres: where does community pharmacy fit in?

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Tip of the iceberg? The industry payments to medicines experts

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Tase Oputu on the Royal College of Pharmacy’s first six months

Opinion

New medicines need workable pathways towards delivery, not just formulary approval

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Pharmacy technicians should not just support research — they should lead and shape it

PJ view: ADHD care is coming to primary care and pharmacists must be written into the plan

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Is our medicines supply chain stretched to breaking point?

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An emergency department workforce can be built on reallocated pharmacy staff

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How we developed the BOPA digital SACT verification passport

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Tase Oputu: ‘Be part of the conversation. Nobody’s opinions are invalid’

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Overcoming impostor syndrome and making a difference on the UKCPA neuroscience committee

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How effective deployment of pharmacy technicians could free up GPs’ time

Learning & CPD

Close up view of man using medicine dry powder inhaler for treatment asthma or COPD diseases

Asthma: diagnosis, harm prevention and treatment optimisation

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Practice guidelines, systematic reviews and meta-analyses

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Adults with diabetes on dialysis

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Understanding equivalence and non-inferiority studies

White woman injects IVF medication into her belly. She wears a white t shirt and red nail polish

Infertility and in vitro fertilisation medicines

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Best practice for managing acute pain

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How to use the Pendleton model of feedback in different pharmacy sectors: a practical guide

Royal College of Pharmacy news

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Senior pharmacists should be involved in planning for hospital corridor care, College tells government

Letters