PJ, February 2019, Vol 302, No 7922

Nigel Clarke: ‘Pharmacy isn’t just handing over a bag of medicine’

The chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council’s plans to revamp pharmacy training, the regulation of online pharmacy and data which show white pharmacists are less likely to be struck off the register.…

Medication errors: where do they happen?

Reducing medicines-related harm requires a clear understanding of where and when errors occur. This visual summary shows the latest estimates in England per year.…

Welsh Pharmacy Board meeting: 17 January 2019

RPS Wales discussed planning for Brexit, improving local engagement, the draft policy on online pharmacies and training required for the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive.…

Scottish Pharmacy Board meeting: 23 January 2019

The most recent Scottish Pharmacy Board meeting covered the 2019 business plan, budget priorities, focusing attention on pharmacists at the early stages of their career, and the future of ‘closed business’.…

English Pharmacy Board meeting: 31 January 2019

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS’s) English Pharmacy Board (EPB) held its first meeting of the year on 31 January 2019, at the Society’s London headquarters.…

The top ten prescribing errors in practice and how to avoid them

Prescribing errors affect patient safety, but pharmacists and other healthcare professionals can reduce the risk of them occurring.…

Stewart Adams (1923–2019)

Having fallen into the pharmacy profession “purely by chance”, Stewart Adams OBE went on to discover ibuprofen, one of the world’s best selling anti-inflammatory painkillers.…

We can do more to improve medicines safety for patients in the NHS

How pharmacists are at the forefront of a national scheme to make the NHS the safest health service in the world for medicines.…

Leading the way to self-care for acute pain

Pharmacists supporting patients to appropriately treat sudden, short bouts of pain through self-care will put patients at the centre of their treatment.…

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Challenging the acute pain status quo

Changes at NHS England mean that now is the time for pharmacists and their teams to reassess how they support patients with acute pain, says Ash Soni, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…

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