Improving asthma care for children and young people Considerations for pharmacists in helping young patients manage their asthma.…
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.…
‘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.…
NHS to train 1,000 educational supervisors for community pharmacy staff from September 2023 There will be 500 training places available for designated prescribing practitioners and another 500 for other educational supervision roles.…
Government reverts to September start date for flu and COVID-19 vaccination programmes The vaccination programmes will now begin in September 2023, rather than October, owing to concerns over a new COVID-19 variant.…
Special report: the community pharmacy workforce crisis Figures released in August 2023 show a drop in the number of full-time community pharmacy professionals in England in 2022, with some regions fighting to fill the gaps.…
Can community pharmacy meet the demands of training more pharmacists? A survey of the community pharmacy workforce has raised questions about whether the sector will have the capacity to help train a planned increase in the number of trainees by 2031/2032.…