Clinical assessment may not reflect everyday practice A more clinically oriented registration assessment may disadvantage preregistration trainees in the community, who make up the largest sector.…
How do we ensure pharmacists have the skills they need for their expanding role? We asked several prominent academics and a student organisation what skills and abilities they thought pharmacists would need in the future and how education and training needed to change to deliver that.…
Treating benefit recipients badly Why threatening to cut benefits for those who refuse treatment is unworkable.…
Alistair Burt: ‘pharmacists are an untapped resource’ Minister of State for Community and Social Care Alistair Burt, in an exclusive interview with The Pharmaceutical Journal, discusses seven-day healthcare service, pharmacists’ growing role in the NHS and decriminalisation of dispensing errors.…
Rapid uptake of new oral anticoagulants in the United States More patients with atrial fibrillation are being protected against blood clots after the introduction of new direct oral anticoagulant drugs.…
Aromatase inhibitors better than tamoxifen for preventing recurrence of early breast cancer In a large meta-analysis, five years of treatment with aromatase inhibitors decreased rates of recurrence and mortality compared with tamoxifen in women with early breast cancer.…
Gentamicin: dose regimens and monitoring How to calculate the correct dose of gentamicin and monitor patients to prevent toxicity.…
Consultant pharmacist numbers ‘should rise ten-fold’ Chief pharmaceutical officer for England targets key role for senior pharmacists in ongoing NHS reforms.…
New hepatitis C combination treatment effective in HIV coinfected patients Patients with both hepatitis C virus and HIV responded well to daclatasvir combined with sofosbuvir in a study.…
Edward Goronwy Owen diesOn 19 July 2015, Edward Goronwy Owen FRPharmS, aged 94, of Calderstones, Liverpool. Mr Owen registered with the Society in 1942 and became a Fellow in 1992.…
