Health inequalities

Pharmacy has a role in innovation adoption in healthcare systems

Collaboration between integrated care systems and pharmacy teams is essential to developing innovative patient services that reduce health inequalities.…

How pharmacy teams can provide health education

Examples of how pharmacists can build public health literacy and improve patients' ability to understand and manage their health.…

Community pharmacy has much to contribute to the goals of the ‘NHS long-term plan’

Hemant Patel sets out the ‘7 Ds’ of the ‘NHS long-term plan’ and how community pharmacy can offer more towards its aims.…

PJ view: Inequity of access to medicines for compassionate use must end

More than half of acute trusts lack a centralised database of medicines provided through compassionate use schemes, leaving a dearth of information that should be shared to help create fairer access to life-saving treatments.…

Uncompassionate use: the inconsistent offering of life-saving unlicensed medicines

Compassionate use schemes offered by pharmaceutical companies are struggling to live up to their name, as data from a third of acute trusts reveal an inequitable provision of medicines through schemes across England.…

Clinical placements can give pharmacy students a real-life lesson in health inequalities

Teaching staff at the University of Nottingham School of Pharmacy say their practical placement pilot for second-year MPharm students should be adopted more widely to promote a reduction in health inequalities.…

Pharmacy is failing patients with language barriers — we must do better

A vast improvement in language barrier services is needed to help the NHS evolve and meet the needs of the country's diverse population.…

How to conduct effective men’s health promotion in community pharmacy

Advice and examples from practice detailing how pharmacists can lead successful local interventions that target men’s health improvement.…

Pharmacy can narrow health inequalities — here’s how

Two advanced specialist community pharmacists share how they have engaged with patients in an area of high deprivation.…

Number of ‘not dispensed’ prescriptions rises by a fifth in one year, NHS data reveal

Exclusive: An analysis by The Pharmaceutical Journal has revealed an 18% increase in the number of items marked as 'not dispensed' in the past year.…