PJ, January 2024, Vol 312, No 7981

Long service of members

The Pharmaceutical Journal is marking long service of members by publishing the names of Members and Fellows of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society who reached 50, 60 or 70 years of continuous membership in 2023. Members wishing to have their contact details forwarded to any of these people should a…

How a pharmacist-led primary care clinic can improve respiratory care

Nazir Hussain, a specialist respiratory pharmacist at Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust, shares how he is improving respiratory care by offering GP-based clinics to help patients manage their COPD and asthma.…

Pharmacy leaders warn of pressures on ‘exhausted, overworked’ pharmacists during longest doctors’ strike in NHS history

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists said it has heard that pharmacists are receiving “unreasonable requests from management” during the strike, which is due to last six days.…

‘Left high and dry’: the patients pushing back against pharmacy closures

Residents in the south west of England fear that pharmacy closures in their area will force patients to travel further for less personalised care. They speak to The Pharmaceutical Journal about why they are campaigning to keep their local pharmacies open.…

Minor ailments consultations in community pharmacies increase by almost three-quarters in a year

Data from the Welsh government show that more than half of all consultations concerned conjunctivitis, hay fever, sore throat and tonsillitis, or dry skin/dermatitis.…

GLP-1 receptor agonist shortage expected to continue for all of 2024

In a national patient safety alert, the Department of Health and Social Care advised switching patients on Byetta and Victoza to Rybelsus, and to provide appropriate counselling with any changes.…

Peter Anthony Linley (1940–2023)

On 8 October 2023, Peter Anthony Linley, aged 82 years, of Baildon, West Yorkshire. Mr Linley registered with the Society in 1962 and became a Fellow in 1986. Tributes Peter Linley was born on 28 December 1940 in Leeds and died on 8 October 2023. He registered with the then Pharmaceutical…

Introducing The Pharmaceutical Journal’s prescribing collection

A new series of articles mapped to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s ‘Competency Framework for All Prescribers’.…

MPs call for more research into bacteriophages as alternative to antibiotics in response to AMR

A House of Commons committee has called for more research into bacteriophages to allow them to be used more widely in UK healthcare to tackle resistance to antibiotics.…

Scheme to reuse medicines in hospital cuts carbon emissions and saves money

A programme that re-dispenses unused medicines on hospital wards has the potential to save thousands of pounds and reduce nearly 80 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions if rolled out across Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.…