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Free trade agreements play a dangerous game with public health

Public health could be sacrificed in large trade pacts that are discussed in secrecy.…

Bill Scott: putting pharmacy first in Scotland

Former chief pharmaceutical officer for Scotland Bill Scott talks to The Pharmaceutical Journal about his career, politics, the NHS and his controversial comment about taking science out of the pharmacy degree.…

Britain leads the way with meningococcal vaccination programmes

England, Scotland and Wales have become the first countries in the world to offer babies a vaccine against meningitis and septicaemia caused by meningococcal B infection as part of a national immunisation programme.…

Funding for pharmacists will support GPs to deliver seven-day service

Around £7.5m from the primary care infrastructure fund will be used to support community pharmacists with training to help GPs in England deliver a seven-day-a-week service.…

Building a pharmacy for the National Ambulance in the United Arab Emirates

Anisha Patel is the only pharmacist working for the National Ambulance service in Abu Dhabi. Here, she describes her role in expanding the pharmacy — and developing services for the Formula 1 Grand Prix.…

UK bill to ban all new psychoactive substances

New psychoactive substances are emerging more quickly than they can be outlawed, but a new UK bill is proposing a blanket solution.…

How pharmacy contracts are granted set to change in Wales

Regulations that govern the granting of new NHS pharmacy contracts in Wales look set to be amended by a new Bill being debated in the Welsh Parliament.…

Error in RPS Annual Review 2014

In the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Annual Review 2014, printed in the 23/30 May 2015 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal, we incorrectly referred to the Scottish Government’s ‘Prescription for excellence: a vision and action plan for the right pharmaceutical care through integr…

WHO publishes its plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance

New partnerships between the pharmaceutical industry, academia and politicians are needed to generate new antibiotics and other technologies to fight antimicrobial resistance, according to a global action plan approved by the World Health Assembly.…

‘Imperative’ hospital pharmacists are given dispensing error defence soon

Society restates concern over lack of defence for hospital pharmacists in official response to government consultation.…