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Health news round-up: NICE approvals, fighting AMR and medicines safety concerns

Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises some important developments in health news.…

First home-based digital technologies approved for cardiac rehabilitation

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said digital technologies could offset the low uptake of traditional cardiac rehabilitation programmes.…

Facilitated self‑selection of P medicines: absent evidence, present risk

As a long-standing member and Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), I was concerned to read that the RPS has reversed its position on the open display of Pharmacy (P) medicines. The RPS justifies this major policy shift primarily based on a literature review published as a non-peer-re…

NHS home testing identifies hundreds with hepatitis C

More than 105,000 people in England have ordered the test since the home-testing service launched in May 2023, with more than 200 testing positive.…

Major step forward as bladder cancer treatment approved in England

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence estimates that more than 1,200 people each year in England could benefit from the enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab combination therapy.…

Why strong pharmacy leadership is essential for the NHS’s next decade

With the NHS facing reform and funding cuts, pharmacy must step up with clear, strategic leadership — or risk being sidelined in decisions that shape patient care and the future of medicines.…

RPS chief executive to step down after royal college transition

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has also outlined plans to recruit for four leadership roles as part of its shift to become a royal college in April 2026.…

Frailty and the patient journey

How to recognise opportunities for medicines optimisation and rationalisation during the course of the patient journey following a frailty-related hospital admission.…

‘Sub-therapeutic’ dose of antipsychotic contributed to patient death, coroner finds

An area coroner for Essex has expressed concerns over a female patient’s management.…

Case-based learning: frailty

The number of older people living with frailty is increasing. Pharmacists play a major role in medicines optimisation in these patients.…