Antiepileptic drug treatment in children Diagnosing epilepsy in children and strategies for selecting appropriate drug treatments.…
Boots’s pharmacists receive second salary rise as part of market-based award Pharmacists who work at Boots will have a maximum salary increase of 1.5% under the company’s new pay review system.…
Deaths: Dilip PatelOn 20 November 2015, Dilip Patel MRPharmS, aged 56, of Bromley, Kent. Mr Patel registered with the Society in 1981. …
Deaths: John AntippaOn 24 November 2015, John Antippa MRPharmS, aged 83, of West Bridgford, Nottingham. Mr Antippa registered with the Society in 1957. …
Medication barcoding system tested in Welsh care homes improves patient safety A pilot project trialling a barcoding system for dispensed medicines administered in care homes in Wales has shown that the system saves staff time, improves patient safety and reduces medicines waste.…
NICE extends treatment options for chronic hepatitis C The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended that three additional and expensive treatments should be made available on the NHS to treat routine hepatitis C infection in certain patients.…
We will not accept a doctor’s contract that is unsafe for patientsI was delighted to read your editorial ‘Pharmacists must support their junior doctor colleagues’ and would like to thank you for your support. This is a worrying time for the NHS, and the way we are going to protect the NHS we all love is to work together and support each other across di…
RPS defends against corrections made to new BNF The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has issued a statement defending the regular updates made to the new BNF to add new information and make corrections.…
Tribute to Harry Esmond SaxbyHarry was born near Barnsley in 1930 and won a scholarship to Bradford Grammar School in the 1940s. He studied pharmacy at the University of Bradford and qualified as a pharmacist in the early 1950s. Harry then spent three years serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps where he was stationed in Alde…
Deaths: Harry Esmond SaxbyOn 21 November 2015, Harry Esmond Saxby, aged 84, of Bridlington, Yorkshire. Mr Saxby registered with the Society in 1953 and left in 2014. …