GPhC Competency areas

How we introduced population health management to our hospital trust

University College London Hospitals Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is using its patients’ data to identify groups with similar characteristics and design new models of proactive care specifically for them.…

Why the newly licensed antibiotic cefepime should be introduced to UK formularies

Healthcare trusts should consider introducing the antibiotic cefepime to their outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy services to tackle infections that are becoming resistant to carbapenem antibiotics.…

Pharmacists must converse with patients to become the clinicians of choice

Following Hemant Patel’s open letter to Dr Keith Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, about putting community pharmacies at the heart of the NHS, Sandra Gidley, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) English Pharmacy Board, signalled the intention to reform the contractual…

Introducing the Stay Well Pharmacy campaign

Bruce Warner, deputy chief pharmaceutical officer for England, presents the Stay Well Pharmacy campaign, a new national initiative launched by NHS England.…

Now could be the time for LTC management

Could the time finally have come for community pharmacy to show that it can manage long-term conditions?…

Mixed response to GPhC consultation on training unregistered pharmacy staff

Pharmacists have given a mixed response to proposed new guidance from the professional regulator around the training of unregistered pharmacy staff.…

Considering human factors and developing systems-thinking behaviours to ensure patient safety

Medication errors are too frequently assigned as blame towards a single person. By considering these errors as a system-level failure, healthcare providers can take significant steps towards improving patient safety. …

Advance payment for community pharmacies increased by 15 pence per prescription item for one month only

The advance payment made to community pharmacists for prescription items dispensed in England is temporarily going up by 15p per item, in an unprecedented move by the government to help with pharmacies’ cash-flow, national pharmacy negotiators have announced.…

Childhood obesity rates continue to rise

Obesity rates in reception-age children have risen for the second successive year, and obesity rates are twice as high in year six school children than those in reception, figures published this week have found.…

Caroline Clarke — an “immense contribution to pharmacy”

I am writing to acknowledge the 42-year career span of my colleague, Caroline Clarke, who is soon to retire. I hope that this letter will inspire other members of our profession to attain the same dedication irrespective of what stage of their career they are at. She has never sought the limelight b…