PJ, September 2025, Vol 315, No 8001

One in five TB services has dedicated pharmacist time

A report has recommended that attendance at tuberculosis multidisciplinary teams and cohort reviews should be part of Scottish pharmacists' job plans.…

Valproate in pregnancy reaches lowest level yet, data suggest

Sodium valproate prescriptions for women and girls aged 12 to 54 years have almost halved since measures were introduced to reduce prescribing in April 2018.…

Urinary tract infection in children: diagnosis and management

An overview of the diagnosis and empirical management of urinary tract infections in children.…

Polypharmacy programme could have saved NHS more than £1m, report finds

The Health Innovation Network’s polypharmacy programme provided training and support to healthcare professionals to tackle overprescribing, as well as developing resources to improve communication with patients.…

PJ view: We cannot expect pharmacists to develop their skills on goodwill alone

As the pharmacy sector comes under increasingly intense pressure, it is more important than ever to provide staff with protected learning time during working hours.…

Community pharmacy negotiating committee changed in advance of contract negotiations

Community Pharmacy England said the restructure of its negotiating committee will better reflect the composition of the community pharmacy sector.…

Expanding NHS student banks: my experience as one of the 10,000 black interns in 2024

During my internship with NHS England, Midlands region, I joined the chief operating officer directorate to undertake a scoping exercise on innovation within student bank programmes. The incentive behind this project was the planned elimination of Band 2 and Band 3 agency staff, highlighting the nec…

Jeremy Miles praises ‘incredible’ work of pharmacists and announces review of general practice pharmacy

Exclusive: The Welsh cabinet secretary for health and social care said “there is a huge role which pharmacists are playing in a range of settings, and I want to see that grow”.…

Pharmacy school to open at University of Suffolk from September 2026

The creation of an MPharm degree at the University of Suffolk will contribute to NHS England's workforce plan to increase the annual number of pharmacy students to almost 5,000 by 2031.…

Patient survey reveals support for deprescribing in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 

Efforts to address medicines waste and improve prescribing quality are gathering momentum across Scotland following the NHS England ‘National overprescribing review report’, published in 2021​1​. Within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC), the patient experience and public involvement (PE…