Medicines shortages experienced by 95% of hospital pharmacists across Europe, survey finds Hospital pharmacists across 58 countries reported that medicines shortages had delayed or cancelled care.…
Spotlight: Deprescribing research In this episode of The PJ Pod, we focus on deprescribing research in community pharmacy.…
More than half of hospital trusts exceed target to discharge patients to community pharmacies, says government The Department of Health and Social Care said 52% of NHS trusts have referred more than 1.5% of patients to community pharmacies through the Discharge Medicines Service.…
RPS publishes standards for pharmacists working for ‘hospital at home’ scheme The eight standards have been created to set out what constitutes ‘good’ in terms of working practices, as well as audit and benchmark pharmacy services across eight core areas.…
Pharmacists can do more to bridge the safety gaps for people with learning disabilities People with learning disabilities are more likely to be taking multiple medicines, but labels are not designed with them in mind — it is time to pay more attention to this patient group’s needs.…
This is a drill: the simulations training next-generation pharmacists From artificial intelligence to virtual reality, schools of pharmacy are making use of the latest in simulation technology to prepare future pharmacists for their digitally-enabled careers as prescribers.…
‘Fewer patients than expected’ recruited in pilot of antidepressant new medicine service Between December 2022 and September 2023, 193 patients used the pilot service, according to data presented by NHS England's pharmacy integration lead.…
Pharmacy2U joins the Company Chemists’ Association In a statement, the Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) said Pharmacy2U “is strongly aligned with the CCA's mission of enabling community pharmacy evolution”.…
LloydsPharmacy ceases operating 90% of branches in 18 months Exclusive: LloydsPharmacy is running 138 pharmacies in October 2023, compared with 1,338 pharmacies in March 2022, General Pharmaceutical Council figures show.…
Community pharmacies to supply free COVID-19 tests to at-risk groups Eligible patients will be able to collect lateral flow device test kits from community pharmacies that have signed up to provide the service.…
