Education and training

How knowledge mobilisation led to the NASA team visiting the UCL School of Pharmacy 

In the ever-evolving landscape of scientific discovery and innovation, the concept of knowledge mobilisation has become vital for linking research to real-world impact. It involves actively sharing knowledge between communities to ensure that academic findings extend beyond laboratories and journal …

Reflective practice for pharmacist prescribers

How reflection can be used as a tool for improving prescribing practice.…

Paul Bennett: ‘Becoming a royal college is the right thing to do for the profession, our members, patients and the public’

With proposals set out to change the RPS Constitution and governance, chief executive Paul Bennett explains what could happen and why.…

More than a half of foundation year training sites do not have a DPP for 2025, reveals local survey

Exclusive: Results from a poll carried out by the Black Country Integrated Care Board showed that 36 of 68 foundation training sites did not yet have a designated prescribing practitioner in place.…

Becoming an advanced clinical practitioner 

As a pharmacist advanced clinical practitioner, Shane Kailla explains how an MSc enabled him to take on a more autonomous role that benefits both patient care and the wider workforce.…

Encouraging more pharmacists to become DPPs

By setting up a London-wide training project that used case studies of training scenarios from different healthcare settings, Puja Nathwani was able to help 120 non-medical prescribers on their way to becoming designated prescribing practitioners.…

Less than 20% of pharmacists undertook DPP training over the past year, survey reveals

Exclusive: Community pharmacists were the most engaged with DPP training, with almost one-quarter of respondents saying they had undertaken training.…

Is research really an exclusive activity or one we can all embrace?

A pick of recent academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…

Nearly 900 students dropped out of MPharm after first year in 2021/2022

Exclusive: General Pharmaceutical Council data suggest that 889 out of 4,505 students did not continue the MPharm degree after the first year.…

Pharmacy Schools Council warns of academic staff shortage amid ‘uncontrolled increase’ in MPharm courses

A statement from the Pharmacy Schools Council warns that heads of school are under pressure to manage with a smaller staff base or recruit at a lower grade.…