Grants and funding

More funding needed to meet ‘NHS long-term plan’, pharmacy leads warn

Pharmacy leads responsible for an area that covers 1.5 million people have warned that “urgent action” to increase pharmacy training funds is needed if the pharmacy workforce is to deliver on the ‘NHS long-term plan’. …

GPhC ‘concerned’ over planned cuts to NHS preregistration training

Exclusive: The chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council has said he is “concerned” that planned cuts to preregistration training could make it more difficult to ensure that pharmacists can meet the changing demands of the NHS.…

Funding for preregistration pharmacists to be cut by up to 25% across England, HEE announces

Salary support funding for NHS preregistration places across England will be cut to 75% from September 2020, Health Education England has announced.…

Call for grant applications: Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship

Funding has been made available from the Department of Health and Social Care, through the Fleming Fund, to support implementation of antimicrobial stewardship activities in four low or middle-income commonwealth countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The fundi…

Government provides £32m for innovative antimicrobial resistance research

Up to £32m of funding will be awarded to the NHS, universities and research organisations for research into antimicrobial resistance, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced. …

Pharmacist awarded £350k to improve adherence in bipolar disorder

A mental health pharmacist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has received a grant to improve medicines adherence in patients with bipolar disorder.…

How Kayt Blythin established a pharmacist-led medicines optimisation service in East Sussex care homes

Kayt Blythin is a principal clinical pharmacist for medicines optimisation for care homes at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.…

How Nuala Hampson promotes the role of pharmacists working in general practice

Working in general practice has allowed me to develop my clinical knowledge and medicines management skills, says Nuala Hampson.…

Pharmacist-led clinic in Canada aims to benefit students, pharmacists and patients

As pharmacists take on more clinical roles within primary care, innovative models of practice are emerging around the world. The University of British Columbia, Canada, has opened a pharmacist-led primary care clinic, which showcases what pharmacists can do, is an educational tool for students and a…

Pharmacy Research UK awards open to non-RPS members for first time

Pharmacy Research UK has launched its 2018 funding round to non Royal Pharmaceutical Society members.…