GP practices to directly refer patients to digital minor ailments scheme GP practices are to refer patients direct to the pharmacy Digital Minor Illness Referral Service from June 2019.…
Lelly Oboh to represent RPS in government overprescribing review Lelly Oboh will represent the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in a government review of overprescribing in the NHS.…
Pharmacies out of pocket after ‘surge’ in diabetes sensor prescribing Pharmacy negotiators are in discussions with the government over reports that community pharmacists are being left out of pocket following a “surge” in prescriptions of a flash glucose monitoring device for people with type 1 diabetes mellitus.…
Pharmacists should work across health and social care to improve medicines safety, CQC says All health and social care providers should have pharmacy staff on their team to improve medicines safety, according to a report by the Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of health and social care in England.…
Majority of Welsh community pharmacists have never submitted a Yellow Card report, study finds More than half of community pharmacists in Wales have never submitted a Yellow Card report, according to survey results published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.…
Deaths: Brian BushbyOn 16 May 2019, Brian Bushby MRPharmS, aged 72 years, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Mr Bushby registered with the Society in 1973.…
Patient information on hospital discharge medicines review does not improve uptake, study finds A hospital pharmacy initiative to provide information and advice to patients about its discharge medicines use review (dMUR) service had minimal impact on encouraging uptake, study results have revealed.…
Working group set up to cut climate change impact of asthma inhalers A national working group has been set up to reduce the climate change impact of asthma inhalers and help meet carbon emissions targets laid out in the ‘NHS Long Term Plan’.…
A critical look at those responsible for the opioid epidemic in the United States Dopesick: Dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy.…
NPA chair steps aside during competition law investigation Nitin Sodha has stepped aside as chair of the National Pharmacy Association amid investigations by the Competition and Markets Authority relating to allegations of “illegal market sharing” against a drug company that lists Sodha as a director.…
