PJ, December 2017, Vol 299, No 7908

Pharmacists welcome patients and politicians on #pharmacywinter action day

Community pharmacists across the country joined national pharmacy organisations in November to showcase the important role community pharmacy plays during the winter months.…

2017: Pharmacy’s roller-coaster year

It has been an unsettling 12 months for pharmacy and as 2017 draws to a close there are still a number of unresolved issues hanging over the New Year.…

2017: the year in pharmacy

Against a backdrop of political inertia caused by a surprise general election and protracted Brexit negotiations, pharmacy has been grappling with some major issues of its own, including supervision of medicines’ supply, professional revalidation and decriminalisation of dispensing errors (see…

Drug price manipulations destabilise pharmacy

Emerging reports that some smaller pharmaceutical wholesalers and independent pharmacist wholesalers could be manipulating the markets to cause unprecedented drug price rises are deeply concerning.…

Highlights of CPD and learning in 2017

Try our quiz, with questions taken from this year’s learning and CPD articles, and check your knowledge of subjects ranging from sepsis and skin cancer to coeliac disease.…

Doris Jones, longstanding Society assistant librarian, celebrates 100th birthday

Doris Jones, a former assistant librarian at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, who spent 45 years with the Society, celebrates her 100th birthday on 8 December 2017.…

Artificial Intelligence: will it change the way drugs are discovered?

The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to invest in artificial intelligence (AI), with many large pharmaceutical companies partnering with AI start-ups in 2017 in order to develop better diagnostics or biomarkers, to identify drug targets and to design new drugs. But when will the first AI-designe…

Dispensing errors decriminalisation legislation passed by committees in both Houses of Parliament

New legislation to protect community pharmacists from prosecution over inadvertent dispensing errors has been passed by committees in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons.…

Q&A: Neal Patel, RPS head of corporate communications

Neal Patel, head of corporate communications for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society talks to Corrinne Burns about how he got into the job, with the message to every practising pharmacist interested in engaging with the media that they have a story to tell.…

‘Indigestion’: 19th century punishment for a deadly sin

The over-consumption of food and alcohol were popular subjects for caricaturists in the early 1800s.…