Pharmacist Support appoints five new trustees Pharmacist Support, the independent charity for pharmacists, former pharmacists, and pharmacy students, has appointed five new trustees to its board.…
Pharmacy Research UK awards open to non-RPS members for first time Pharmacy Research UK has launched its 2018 funding round to non Royal Pharmaceutical Society members.…
A pharmacist’s guide to becoming more assertive Pharmacists should take advantage of Pharmacist Support’s free wellbeing workshops, which cover time management, stress management and building resilience.…
Pharmacy Research UK awards more than £80k in funding Six pharmacy researchers will share more than £80,000 of funding awarded by Pharmacy Research UK…
Boost in availability of oral cholera vaccines is a potential game changer in global fight against cholera Julie Hall from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies discusses a new global health plan to cut cholera deaths by 90% and to eliminate the disease by 2030.…
More needed to support pharmacists with mental health problems, MPs told Employers and the General Pharmaceutical Council should do more to prevent mental ill health among pharmacists and to support those struggling with mental health episodes in the light of the death of talented young pharmacist Alison Stamps, MPs have said.…
Go Green for Pharmacist Support Charity Pharmacist Support has announced the return of its #GoGreen4PS fundraising campaign.…
Shortsighted decision not to recommend HPV vaccination for boysThe Joint Committee for Vaccine and Immunisation (JCVI) has recently announced that the vaccine that could stop people from dying from human papilloma virus (HPV)-related cancers will not be given to boys ( The Pharmaceutical Journal online, 20 July 2017). This vaccine is already a…
The government needs to get on with its own recommendations and speed up access to life-changing drugsAs the rest of Europe competes to rehome the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London, minds at home are finally focusing on what that means for access to new treatments in a post-Brexit Britain. The warnings have been clear: without an effective relationship with the EMA, there is a risk t…
How the Gates Foundation seeks to energise the global fight against neglected tropical diseases The president of the global health division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Trevor Mundel, reveals how it is taking action against neglected tropical diseases.…
