PJ, September 2019, Vol 303, No 7929

Pharmaceutical care to medical patients in the emergency department: a service evaluation

An evaluation of a new hospital pharmacy service that introduces pharmaceutical care earlier after admission to the emergency department.…

Honest and challenging look at the state of young people’s mental health in the UK

Dispatches. Young, British and Depressed. London: Channel 4; 2019…

Pharmacy’s ethnicity pay gap widens

As the government consults on whether to make reporting of ethnicity pay data mandatory for employers, our analyses show the extent of the ethnicity pay gap among pharmacists. …

We must declare Scotland’s drug deaths a public health emergency

The number of drug-related deaths in Scotland has soared to the highest level in the EU. We know which strategies can tackle this crisis —  we should be using them.…

Reinvigorating community pharmacy: ways to boost morale

A survey by The Pharmaceutical Journal shows that community pharmacy is the sector with the lowest morale, so we asked community pharmacists what needs to change.…

Clear guide to managing the menopause and using HRT

Menopause: All you need to know in one concise manual by Louise Newson…

No-deal Brexit: pharmacy bodies question the UK government’s readiness

Not all pharmacists are convinced by the government’s claims that it is ready to leave the EU without a deal in place.…

At last, a new treatment option for diabetes-related chronic kidney disease

Guideline-changing trial results released earlier in 2019 suggest that SGLT2 inhibitors could be a viable treatment solution for patients with diabetes and evidence of kidney damage.…

Power of one: what is holding polypills back?

Single pills with fixed-dose combinations of several medicines are not commonplace for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. As the first randomised controlled trial to show a polypill can cut the risk of heart attacks is published, we look at why, nearly two decades after it was first proposed, …

Deaths: Islwyn (Lyn) Owen

On 27 June 2019, Islwyn (Lyn) Owen, aged 70 years, of Emsworth, Hampshire and Hackney, London. A former member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Mr Owen worked until 1994 as principal pharmacist in quality control at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, before going on to do locum…