Patient-friendly advice for people with skin problems The Skincare Bible: Your No-nonsense Guide to Great Skin, by Anjali Mahto.…
The global race to combat antimicrobial resistance The Longitude Prize has relaunched after 300 years and this time teams around the world are racing to develop a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test that will help prevent the overuse of antibiotics and put them in the running to win £8m.…
Government figures show drop in pharmacy numbers since funding cuts The impact of the funding cuts to community pharmacy in England has been highlighted by figures showing a fall in the number of high street pharmacies.…
Make better use of hospital pharmacists in mental health, says second Carter review Mental health and community trusts should deploy pharmacists in much more “innovative” ways to ensure that they are able to tackle problems such as the use of antipsychotics and polypharmacy, says the second version of the Carter productivity review.…
We need to find safer drugs for patientsSeeing the headline ‘Everyday drugs raise the risk of dementia’ in The Times made me realise that we, as pharmacists, must look more into this subject. I’m sure most pharmacists would agree that we chose our profession to help people, not to make them worse. In the past…
Boots facing investigation after claims of ‘overcharging’ NHS for unlicensed medicines The government has called on regulators to investigate Boots after claims it has “overcharged” the NHS for some unlicensed medicines.…
NHS ‘in the dark’ over Brexit, says health select committee chair The NHS is planning “in the dark” for Brexit because the government continues to refuse to publish its own contingency plans for when the UK leaves the EU, Sarah Wollaston, chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, has said.…
Medication-related harm in older adults costs the NHS £400m each year, study finds Medication-related harm affects one in three older adults and incurs an annual cost of around £400m to the NHS, most of which is attributable to hospital readmissions, a study has found.…
Pharmacies deliver 1.3 million seasonal flu jabs Some 1.3 million flu vaccinations were given by community pharmacists in England in the 2017/2018 season.…
GPhC gender pay gap below national average According to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s gender pay gap report 2017, its male employees earn, on average, 14.2% more than their female colleagues, which is below the national average.…
