Healthcare provision

Community pharmacy may need to ‘pause’ advanced services, warns lead negotiator

Exclusive: Janet Morrison, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, has said that without an uplift in funding, community pharmacies may have to pause on offering advanced services.…

Nigel Clarke: ‘The pharmacy registration exam needs to be revisited’

As he steps down after eight years at the helm of the pharmacy regulator, Nigel Clarke reflects on his tenure during one of the most challenging times in the history of public health.…

NHS England appoints first clinical director for prescribing

Tony Avery, professor of primary healthcare at the University of Nottingham, and his team developed the PINCER project to tackle hazardous prescribing.…

HRT prescriptions double in five years, despite supply shortages

Prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy in England increased from 238,000 in January 2017 to 538,000 in December 2021.…

Pharmacists advised not to send medication direct to Ukraine

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists is advising members and healthcare workers to make financial donations instead.…

Antipsychotics increasingly prescribed for personality disorders, against NICE guidance

Study results have shown that antipsychotics have been prescribed for personality disorders more often and for longer periods of time between 2000 and 2016.…

Extra 165 places made available for independent prescriber training in first three months of 2022

The national workforce strategy also pledges to create an additional 89 preregistration training places in Scotland by 2024/2025.…

Over half of consultation respondents support plans to end two-year wait to become independent prescriber

The General Pharmaceutical Council has proposed removing the requirement for a pharmacist to have two years of patient-orientated experience to become an independent prescriber to meet demand for the role.…

It is time to act on the inequalities in treatment for substance misuse among LGBTQ+ people

Pharmacy staff are well placed to improve the healthcare experience for people in the LGBTQ+ community, a group that is often more susceptible to substance misuse.…

Millions of patients with rare diseases to benefit from faster treatment access

NHS England and NHS Improvement have committed to several actions to support faster access to medicines for people with rare diseases and conditions.…