Thorrun Govind: ‘I worry pharmacy teams will be abused over face masks’ The youngest chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board talks about face masks in pharmacies, the value of pharmacist independent prescribers and the importance of inclusion and wellbeing in the profession.…
LloydsPharmacy reduces amlodipine and amitriptyline dispensing errors by 77% The multiple's Safer Care patient safety programme, aimed to eliminate look-alike, sound-alike dispensing errors, achieved a significant reduction in mistakes in 2020.…
Government proposes raising qualifying age for free NHS prescriptions to 66 years The government has proposed raising the upper age exemption for prescriptions in England to generate additional revenue for the NHS.…
Independent prescribing pharmacists deliver 16,000 consultations since 2016 Out of the 713 community pharmacies in Wales, 33 have delivered a combined total of 16,005 independent prescriber consultations.…
Kent LPC receives extra cash to increase GP referrals to pharmacist consultation service The money will be used to support GP surgeries with training and backfill costs for implementation of the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.…
High Court quashes ‘antisemitism’ fitness-to-practise decision The High Court judgement said that the General Pharmaceutical Council's fitness-to-practise committee "wrongly took account" of the intention of pharmacist Nazim Ali "when assessing whether his language was objectively antisemitic".…
Regulator recommends thyroid function tests for patients on levothyroxine with persistent symptoms The Medicines and Healthcare products Agency has suggested that patients receive a thyroid function test if they experience persistent symptoms after switching between different formulations of the thyroid hormone levothyroxine.…
Everything you need to know about the debate over supervision The supervision debate has been an ongoing point of contention for several years, but what exactly is the debate about and why is it so controversial?…
How to advise women on the safe use of medicines while breastfeeding Pharmacists should understand the pharmacokinetic principles influencing a drug’s passage through breast milk to confidently promote breastfeeding as an important public health measure.…
CQC proposes law change to close online prescribing loopholes linked to patient deaths The Care Quality Commission said its proposed legislative changes would improve its ability to regulate independent care providers that are currently “putting people’s lives at risk”.…
