Your reading habits help us give you more of what you want Finding out what members want and need is vital for any membership body, and user data from our website will help us deliver more of what you want.…
The evolution of community pharmacists in the UK Legal cases have helped to shape community pharmacy from its roots in the one-time competitive roles of apothecary and chemist and druggist.…
Review of 2015: ten developments that are changing pharmacy The pharmacy landscape continues to shift amid a backdrop of austere UK public spending and the rising spectre of centralised dispensing in the community. The Pharmaceutical Journal presents ten developments that affected pharmacists in 2015.…
Highlights of CPD and learning in 2015 Try our clinical quiz, taken from this year’s learning articles, and check your knowledge of subjects ranging from hormonal contraception to Scarlet fever.…
A visit to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society museum The Royal Pharmaceutical Society museum has ownership of more than 45,000 items dating back as early as the 1600s. The museum is currently open to RPS members and there are plans to open it to the public in 2016. …
Execution is key when it comes to centralised dispensing in community pharmacy Proposals to amend legislation so that the playing field is levelled for all pharmacies to use centralised dispensing is the right move if pharmacists are to provide more clinical services.…
Deaths: Joseph Henry MillicanOn 8 November 2015, Joseph Henry Millican, aged 91, of Liverpool, Merseyside. Mr Millican registered with the Society in 1945 and left in 2004. …
A different perspective on why prescriptions of ADHD drugs have soared Media concerns about the overdiagnosis and overmedication of ADHD are misguided.…
Deaths: David StewartOn 26 November 2015, David Stewart MRPharmS, aged 68, of Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire. Mr Stewart registered with the Society in 1970.…
Deaths: Barbara HutchinsonOn 4 December 2015, Barbara Hutchinson MRPharmS, aged 83, of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. Mrs Hutchinson registered with the Society in 1955. …
