Structured medication reviews in frailty An overview of the considerations that frailty presents in the context of a structured medication review.…
Welsh government confirms delays to pharmacy PrEP pilot Exclusive: The Welsh government has told The Pharmaceutical Journal that operational issues have delayed the roll out of a community pharmacy pre-exposure prophylaxis pilot scheme.…
GPhC writes to pharmacy teams after methotrexate dispensed with instruction to take once daily An email sent by Roz Gittins, chief pharmacy officer at the GPhC, advised pharmacy teams to supply methotrexate in line with a drug safety update published by the MHRA in September 2020.…
‘Life-threatening condition’ added to Mounjaro patient information leaflet Manufacturer of Mounjaro, Eli Lilly has added more detail to the list of the drug's 'possible side effects'.…
Mounjaro health benefits found to reverse one year after stopping drug Researchers said their findings “underscore the importance of continued obesity treatment”.…
NHS prescription charges frozen for second year in a row The cost of three-month and annual prescription prepayment certificates will also be frozen for the 2026/2027 financial year.…
Barcode errors ‘potentially fatal’, warns patient safety commissioner Exclusive: All four UK chief pharmaceutical officers also wrote an open letter to pharmaceutical companies earlier this year urging them to continue 2D barcodes on medicine packs, despite it no longer being mandatory following Brexit.…
How safe are GLP-1s? As the use of weight-loss drugs continues to increase, there has been a rise in documented side effects. But what are the serious and unwanted effects of these drugs, and is Yellow Card reporting capturing enough information?…
New HIV diagnoses fall by almost 20% in one year Public Health Wales data show that the number of new HIV cases fell to 73 in 2024, from 91 confirmed cases in 2023.…
Measuring antidepressant symptoms instead of summary scores could show quicker response Researchers found that the use of combined symptom scoring, such as the Patient Health Questionnaire, could mask improvements in depression and anxiety symptoms.…
