Call for Society Fellowship nominationsThe Panel of Fellows will be holding its next meeting in November 2024. Nominations for Society Fellowship must be received by the Secretary of the Panel of Fellows by 23 October 2024 to be considered at this meeting. Nominations need to be made by a current member of the Society and supported by…
What it means to be a clinical writer at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Here, Shaunagh Swain — a clinical writer on the Pharmaceutical Press editorial team — explains how the role has opened up new opportunities in her career as a pharmacist.…
How will we generate the new generation of prescribing pharmacists? The Pharmaceutical Journal’s health policy columnist looks at how, in practice, new cohorts of prescribing pharmacists can be taught and supervised.…
How do we use science within the practice of pharmacy? The pick of the month’s academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…
Pharmacy teams should be integral to humanitarian organisations Why humanitarian pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are crucial for the global management of medicines and health technologies.…
Reflective practice for pharmacist prescribers How reflection can be used as a tool for improving prescribing practice.…
More than a half of foundation year training sites do not have a DPP for 2025, reveals local survey Exclusive: Results from a poll carried out by the Black Country Integrated Care Board showed that 36 of 68 foundation training sites did not yet have a designated prescribing practitioner in place.…
Becoming an advanced clinical practitioner As a pharmacist advanced clinical practitioner, Shane Kailla explains how an MSc enabled him to take on a more autonomous role that benefits both patient care and the wider workforce.…
Encouraging more pharmacists to become DPPs By setting up a London-wide training project that used case studies of training scenarios from different healthcare settings, Puja Nathwani was able to help 120 non-medical prescribers on their way to becoming designated prescribing practitioners.…
Less than 20% of pharmacists undertook DPP training over the past year, survey reveals Exclusive: Community pharmacists were the most engaged with DPP training, with almost one-quarter of respondents saying they had undertaken training.…
