Pre-eclampsia: identification and management Access to prenatal care, early recognition and detection of risk factors, careful monitoring and appropriate management are essential to prevent serious complications of hypertension in pregnancy.…
85% of pharmacy applicants to NHS COVID-19 vaccination team deployed to contact tracing service Exclusive: NHS Professionals said the majority of pharmacy staff who successfully applied to join the COVID-19 vaccination team have instead been deployed to work for NHS Test and Trace.…
Fundraising page set up in memory of pharmacist reaches target to build a school in her name More than £9,000 has been raised to build a school in Pakistan in memory of Sana Masood, who died from COVID-19 aged 30 years.…
PJ view: For pharmacy, providing oral contraception should be just the beginning If the reclassification of two progestogen-only contraceptive pills to pharmacy medicines goes ahead, then there is a case for expanding the contraceptive options pharmacies provide without a prescription.…
Patricia Mary Buxton (1935–2020)On 21 January 2020, Patricia Mary Buxton MRPharmS, aged 84 years, of Wilmslow, Cheshire. Mrs Buxton registered with the Society in 1960.…
The COVID-19 vaccination programme is going well, but it’s not over — here’s how you can ensure its continued success We must all arm ourselves with the information to help our most at-risk overcome their vaccine worries — many lives depend on it.…
Voting opens for the RPS National Pharmacy Board elections 2021 The deadline for voting in the 2021 Royal Pharmaceutical Society National Pharmacy Board elections is 17:00 on 13 May 2021.…
Tackling the rise of concerning COVID-19 variants in the UK As more variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge in the UK, scientists are racing to update existing COVID vaccines, and to develop new ones.…
Summary care record views in community pharmacy increased by 30% in 2020 Exclusive: Pharmacists in England viewed patients' summary care records more than 1 million times in 2020, compared with around 800,000 times in 2019.…
GPhC figures show 90% pass rate for provisionally registered pharmacists in registration exam Data published by the pharmacy regulator show 90.4% of provisionally registered pharmacists have passed the March 2021 assessment.…
