PJ, June 2018, Vol 300, No 7914

How pharmacists can comply with GDPR

Pharmacies could be heavily fined if they break new data protection rules. Here is a quick guide on how to stay within the law.…

Text messages can help diabetes control, study finds

A text message-based system can help improve diabetes control, researchers have found.…

Huddersfield opens new centre for pharmacy policy and practice research

The Department of Pharmacy at the University of Huddersfield has been focusing on a number of strategies to enhance high-quality research in pharmacy practice. A pharmacy practice research retreat was organised in May 2017 and a research strategy was developed through a conceptual framework adopted …

NHS England’s outsourcing of primary care support ‘a long way below acceptable standard’

A report from the National Audit Office says that support services provided to pharmacists, GPs, dentists and opticians are “a long way below an acceptable standard” after NHS England and Capita misunderstood the risks in outsourcing primary care support services.…

East of England Co-op puts all six pharmacies up for sale

The East of England Co-operative Society is pulling out of community pharmacy in Suffolk and has put all six of its branches up for sale.…

More than half of patients using needle exchange pilot tested positive for Hepatitis C

Results of a four-month pilot project show that more than half of patients using pharmacy-based needle exchange services tested positive for hepatitis C antibodies.…

Community pharmacy contract talks yet to start

Negotiations on a new community pharmacy contract have yet to begin, and there is no timetable for them to start, MPs have heard.…

Reena Barai: comfy shoes, having no regrets and living la dolce vita

A minute in the company of the pharmacy owner and National Pharmacy Association board member.…

Tribute: James Ewart

It was with much sadness that I learnt of the passing of James (Jim) Ewart in January 2018. Born in Edinburgh in 1926, he studied pharmacy there and spent the first part of his career working for the Co-op in Glasgow. He moved to South Norfolk in the late 1950s to manage the Loddon Pharmacy for Rees…

Tribute: Kenneth Jack Knight

It was perhaps ironic that notice of the passing of Jack Knight appeared in the same issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal in which the issue of doctor-dispensing surfaced again. Jack was, for several years in the 1980s, vice chair of the short-lived but, for a while, very active Rural Pharmacists Ass…