England

Hospital pharmacists in England and Wales to be balloted on industrial action

Exclusive: Unite has confirmed that rolling ballots will close before Christmas, meaning workers could walk out in January 2023.…

More than a third of NHS trusts have no ethnic minority pharmacists at senior levels

Exclusive: Of 87 NHS trusts and health boards across Great Britain that provided latest data, 34.5% do not employ pharmacists from ethnic minority backgrounds at NHS 'Agenda for change' band 8b or above.…

England has lowest number of community pharmacies in five years, figures show

Closures in 2019/2020 have resulted in the lowest number of community pharmacies in England since 2015/2016.…

English Pharmacy Board meeting: 8 October 2020

Topics discussed at the latest English Pharmacy Board meeting included learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Action in Belonging, Culture and Diversity group and updates on education.…

Increasing injectable medicines ten-fold could release time equivalent to 4,000 extra nurses, report says

The production of injectable medicines in England could be increased from the current 3.4 million individual doses to more than 40 million per year.…

Drug-related deaths in England and Wales remain at record levels, ONS report shows

Deaths related to drug poisoning remained at record levels in 2019, according to figures published by the Office of National Statistics.…

Budget for already delayed PrEP rollout in England cut by almost a third

The budget for a phased rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs by local authorities in England has been cut by almost a third.…

Unsafe methotrexate prescribing remains common in England, study finds

Unsafe methotrexate prescribing has gradually reduced but is still common, with substantial variation between general practices in England, a study in the British Journal of General Practice has found.…

Nikki Kanani: ‘Shortages of the right pharmacists in some areas has been an issue’

The director of primary care at NHS England speaks about growing up in a pharmacy, her hopes for the sector and how to protect pharmacists from burnout.…

Charity questions readiness for PrEP to be routinely available by April 2020

The Terrence Higgins Trust has expressed doubt over the government’s ability to meet its deadline of making pre-exposure prophylaxis routinely available on the NHS in England from April 2020.…