Health inequalities

PJ view: Private COVID-19 vaccines should be welcomed with caution

As pharmacies prepare to offer private COVID-19 vaccinations, cost considerations must be made to ensure this does not become a step towards wider health inequality.…

Three core values of community pharmacy are fundamental to a healthy future 

How the community pharmacy network offers a unique combination of values to patients and the public that must be capitalised on.…

‘Left high and dry’: the patients pushing back against pharmacy closures

Residents in the south west of England fear that pharmacy closures in their area will force patients to travel further for less personalised care. They speak to The Pharmaceutical Journal about why they are campaigning to keep their local pharmacies open.…

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.…