Health inequalities

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.…

‘Outdated, illogical and unfair’: the true cost of prescription charges

As increasing numbers of prescription medicines are not dispensed to the patients who need them, pharmacists warn that charging patients for prescriptions during the cost of living crisis could reverse efforts to close health inequalities.…

Undergraduate pharmacy education must become more inclusive of LGBTQIA+ people

There is a severe lack of teaching around LGBTQIA+ issues in pharmacy education and, where it is present, it reinforces marginalisation — the profession must take steps to improve.…

National pharmacy board meeting: 8 February 2023

The English, Scottish and Welsh national pharmacy boards met for their first meeting of 2023 to discuss their individual and collective plans for the year ahead.…

PJ view: Let’s showcase how pharmacy can narrow health inequalities

The Pharmaceutical Journal is calling for examples from any pharmacy sector of projects that aim to tackle health inequalities.…

Building bridges: pharmacists reaching out to help their communities

In this episode of The PJ Pod, two pharmacists tell us how their outreach work is helping to support people's health needs.…

‘Catastrophic implications’: the pharmacy closures widening health inequalities

Community pharmacy is peerless in the supply of better healthcare in more deprived communities, but this vital role is under serious threat.…

Pharmacy teams could visit community and faith groups to cut health inequalities, says Royal Pharmaceutical Society

A position paper published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society suggests how organisations can work together to address health inequalities.…