Improving asthma care for children and young people Considerations for pharmacists in helping young patients manage their asthma.…
PJ view: Post-registration support for newly qualified pharmacists from 2026 must be a collaborative endeavour Joined up working across Great Britain — and across pharmacy sectors — is vital to ensuring newly trained pharmacists get the support they need as independent prescribers from day one.…
Filling the gap in smoking cessation therapies: a race to a smoke-free 2030 Nicotine replacement therapy is currently the only pharmacological treatment available in the UK to help tobacco smokers quit, but this is set to change.…
Every community pharmacy in Scotland to stock emergency supplies of naloxone from October 2023 The naloxone emergency supply service will be added to the community pharmacy public health service in Scotland from 30 October 2023.…
How palliative care pharmacists in community practice are improving access to medicines Tarun Nayyar’s work as a pharmacist at Birmingham Hospice is enabling faster access to specialist medicines for palliative care patients at home.…
Charting the course to advancing pharmacist prescribing Attendees at a roundtable hosted by The Pharmaceutical Journal emphasised the need for robust training and support for newly qualified independent prescribers to ensure that individuals use their qualification.…
‘Limited’ supply of weight loss drug semaglutide launched in UK Manufacturer Novo Nordisk said it will monitor demand and work with regulators to ensure Wegovy is accessible to eligible patients.…
Number of blood pressure checks delivered by community pharmacists more than doubles in one year NHS England has estimated the checks could prevent more than 1,300 heart attacks and strokes.…
Our journey to digitally transform the discharge medicines review service Efi Mantzourani shares how she and her team across Wales overhauled a paper-based discharge medicine review service in favour of a digital offering used by nearly every pharmacy in the country.…
Bringing blood pressure checks to the Pakistani community in Derby Working with local volunteer groups led Khurum Hussain and colleagues to establish an outreach programme that moved the community pharmacy hypertension case-finding service out of the pharmacy and onto the doorsteps of patients who need it most.…