High-risk medications: a guide for pharmacy professionals Serious patient harm from medication errors is more likely when the medication is ‘high-risk’. This article describes the contributing factors and what pharmacists can do to reduce the risk.…
Prescriptions and ponchos: pharmacy volunteers in the field As crowds descend on the UK’s festival circuit, a small team of pharmacists ensure attendees have access to medicines, emergency care and health advice.…
Latest MEP reflects ‘growing complexity of pharmacy practice’ The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s newest Medicines, Ethics and Practice is the professional guide for pharmacists’ 48th edition.…
‘It just wasn’t viable’: the safety crisis facing patients with sensory impairments A report has highlighted how medicines and devices routinely fail people with sight and hearing loss. Experts hope it will finally prompt action from across the health service, including pharmacists.…
What difference will hub-and-spoke dispensing actually make? This month, our health policy columnist mulls over the true impact of the roll-out of hub-and-spoke community pharmacy prescription filling between different organisations.…
Hub-and-spoke dispensing expansion set to begin in October 2025 Hub-and-spoke dispensing between different legal entities will be permitted from 1 October 2025 under draft amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.…
Government ‘working towards’ enabling hub-and-spoke dispensing in 2025 The proposed legislation will enable hub-and-spoke dispensing between different legal entities, changing the current rules that only permit this model of dispensing between pharmacy locations that belong to the same legal entity.…
Hospitals should review pharmacy support in emergency departments, says health safety investigation body In a report, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body recommends that hospitals evaluate their processes so that patients in need of time-critical medicines are identified as soon as possible upon admission.…
Patient safety improvement and medicines waste targeted by repeat prescribing toolkit The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says the new resource is the first national good practice guidance on repeat prescribing published in 20 years.…
Changes to hub-and-spoke legislation will be delayed, government tells CPE Community Pharmacy England says it has been told by the Department for Health and Social Care that the changes will not happen from 1 January 2025 as planned.…
