Awards

Team of pharmacists and medics wins national award for care home service

Award-winning embedded pharmacist team were part of care homes operation that cut A&E attendances by 20%.…

Pharmaceutical Journal wins international news design award

The Pharmaceutical Journal has won an Award of Excellence from The Society for News Design (SND) for the redesign of the print magazine. …

Pharmacists invited to enter awards recognising innovative pharmaceutical care

The Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2015 recognise pharmacists and their teams who have improved patient care through better use of medicines.…

Pharmacist’s team wins £50,000 innovation prize for antibiotic prescribing app

Microbiology app that assists antibiotic prescribing wins national award.…

App wins infection control category of NHS Innovation Challenge Awards

A smartphone app that offers up-to-date antibiotic prescribing advice to hospital doctors has won the infection control category in the annual NHS Innovation Challenge Awards.…

Dawn Connelly wins prestigious medical journalism award

Dawn Connelly, features editor at The Pharmaceutical Journal, won the Data Journalism Award at the Medical Journalists’ Association winter awards, held at BMA House in London on 5 February 2014. The prize was awarded for her graphic feature ‘A visual guide to the Ebola virus ep…

Cholic acid named ‘Golden Pill’ in Prescrire’s annual awards

‘A drug used to treat children with a rare genetic condition who are unable to produce bile and risk fatal liver failure has received international recognition.…

Janssen and Novartis pick up 2014 Prix Galien awards

Janssen and Novartis scooped prizes at the UK Prix Galien Awards for the first new drug for tuberculosis (TB) in 40 years and the first broadly protective meningitis B vaccine.…

RPS awards 2014 in pictures

Royal Pharmaceutical Society members received awards for their outstanding contributions to pharmacy.…

International award for former RPSGB President

Colin Hitchings, former president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, has been awarded the Joseph A Oddis Award posthumously for exceptional service to the International Pharmaceutical Federation.…