Communication and information management

How to use the new Pharmaceutical Journal website

A quick guide to the new PJ website to ensure you remain up to date with our latest content and, if you wish, start to build your own personalised experience.…

Free access to pharmacy journals under five-year deal with Oxford University Press

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Oxford University Press to give its members free access to a portfolio of research in pharmacy, pharmacology and the pharmaceutical sciences.…

How our pharmacy-led medicines information service supported clinicians on the COVID-19 frontline

Cristina Coelho, lead pharmacist in medicines information at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, on how her team of pharmacy professionals were indispensable in providing the latest and most accurate new COVID-19 information to clinicians on the ground.…

Nightingale hospital pharmacy lead among recipients of Queen’s birthday honours

The 2020 Queen’s birthday honours list focused on frontline responders and community volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the lead pharmacist for the Nightingale Hospital in London.…

What my deaf daughter taught me about PPE and communicating with the hard of hearing in the pharmacy

Facial coverings are helping us to limit the spread of COVID-19, but for people who rely on lip reading, communication just got harder. Consultant pharmacist Karen Miller, whose daughter is deaf, says we could all rethink how we interact with our patients and each other.…

Join the European Women Pharmacists Meeting on coping with the COVID-19 crisis

The past few months, dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, have emphasised the importance of working together, sharing experience and knowledge, and keeping abreast of clinical developments, both nationally and internationally. Sharing experience, initiatives and knowledge has been the focus of …

Pharmaceutical considerations for patients with stomas

Pharmacists should be aware of the requirements of their patients who may have a temporary or permanent stoma.…

Tony Scully: ‘We need to constantly keep adapting and growing in new ways’

Tony Scully, a publishing director at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society with responsibility for The Pharmaceutical Journal and a portfolio of other editorial products, discusses the evolution of The Pharmaceutical Journal, future plans and how we are supporting pharmacists during the COVID-…

The future is giving patients control over their own medication records

The patient is the only person present at every stage of their treatment as they move between different healthcare settings, meaning that patient-held information could plug holes in our records and contribute to medicines safety.…

Developing sustainable regional networks for pharmacy research: The Great North Pharmacy Research Collaborative

To help grow and support pharmacy research activity, in 2016, a group of pharmacists from Durham University received institutional funding to develop a local postgraduate pharmacy research conference. The conference aimed to give postgraduate pharmacists an opportunity to showcase projects they had …