Technicians will be managing pharmacies to free up pharmacists, suggests chief pharmaceutical officer It is only a matter of time before pharmacy technicians will manage community pharmacies in order to free pharmacists’ time for clinical activities, hinted England’s chief pharmaceutical officer Keith Ridge.…
Learn how to manage infectious disease ‘Infectious disease pharmacotherapy self assessment’, by Lea S Eiland and Diane B Ginsburg.…
Write access to patients’ records would transform pharmacy’s role in care Community pharmacist Sibby Buckle, public affairs lead for the English Pharmacy Board, makes a case for eventual write access to patients’ records but recommends that the pharmacy profession proceeds with care.…
UK life sciences industry faces skills shortage, says ABPI Skills shortage in UK life sciences industry could threaten the research and development of new medicines, according to a report by the ABPI.…
Tribute to John Langford StaceyWe were sorry to learn of the death of our former colleague John Langford Stacey. John was one of the four area pharmaceutical officers (APhO) appointed in the Oxford region in 1974, having previously been chief pharmacist at High Wycombe General Hospital. He was the APhO for Buckinghamshire based a…
Deaths: Ian BoydOn 11 November 2015, Ian Boyd MRPharmS, aged 82, of Keswick, Cumbria. Dr Boyd registered with the Society in 1957. …
Concerns about widely available sleeping pill5 November 2015: The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has been interviewed by BBC Breakfast after The BMJ warned of the wide availability of sleeping pill zopiclone on the internet. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, an RPS spokesperson said: “Our concerns are two-fold. Firstly, …
Pharmacy trainees may need to pay for their placements, says chief pharmaceutical officer A proportion of pharmacy trainees may eventually have to fund their own preregistration placements, says England’s chief pharmaceutical officer Keith Ridge.…
Stop prescribing mefloquine to our military personnel for malaria prophylaxis The overwhelming evidence about the dangers of long-term use of mefloquine leaves the UK Ministry of Defence little excuse to continue giving this drug to soldiers.…
Gender equality still major problem in science leadership, event concludes Speakers at the Women in Healthcare Leadership Symposium highlight that too few women are reaching senior positions in science and healthcare.…
