September 2025, Vol 315, No 8001

Top news stories

NHS online pharmacy applications increase by more than 3,300% in month before market closure

GPhC reveals draft criteria to cut record number of fitness-to-practise concerns

Investigations ongoing as regulator takes action against Jhoots

Pharmacies could offer more vaccines off-site under government proposals

Missed Pharmacy First payments top £70m as record numbers fail to meet threshold

Features

Will UK government proposals address the problem of medicines shortages?

Is a lack of protected learning time holding back hospital pharmacists’ career development?

Non-NHS provision of medicines: what are the issues?

Dialling back antibiotic prescribing in children

Opinion

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

The NHS ten-year plan: what does it mean for community pharmacy?

Transforming undergraduate placements to support the initial education and training of pharmacists

Highlighting the discrepancy between awareness and practice of safe household medication disposal 

How Hampshire and Isle of Wight pharmacy teams work together in a system

Reflective practice is standard for most healthcare professionals, so why not pharmacists?

Henry Gregg: ‘The only way to slow down pharmacy closures is to start closing that £2.6bn funding gap’

The future pharmacist: empathy, equity and action

Manchester student wins PJ and BPSA writing competition

Preparing MPharm graduates for practice: integrating understanding of community pharmacy, mental health and digital health

Ready for the real world: peer-led pharmacy skills clinics to transform practice readiness

Beyond graduation: closing the readiness gap in UK pharmacist training

Learning & CPD

Urinary tract infection in children: diagnosis and management

Creating effective assessment activities for foundation trainees 

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum

How to encourage adherence in patients with respiratory disease

Medication-related considerations in childhood obesity 

Emergency contraception: best practice for pharmacy

High-risk medications: a guide for pharmacy professionals

Role of pharmacists in supporting children and young people who self-harm

Your RPS

RPS launches new three-year goals to advance pharmacy services in Wales

Geraldine McCaffrey appointed RPS director for Wales 

RPS urges patients to seek medicines information from ‘trusted source’ after Trump links paracetamol and autism

Clinical academic receives 2025 RPS Barnett Award

Claire Anderson receives FIP Distinguished Service Award