Hospital pharmacy

What pharmacy students and trainees can expect from placements in hospital pharmacy

Many pharmacy students seek placements in hospital pharmacies to help them decide on their future career path. But what are these placements likely to entail?…

NHS Scotland and RPS Scotland publish best practice standards for managing medicine shortages

NHS Scotland and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland have launched best practice standards for the management of medicines shortages in secondary care.…

Hospital pharmacy oncology rotation through the eyes of a junior resident pharmacist

Baguiasri Mandane shares her experience and what she learnt on her oncology rotation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust…

Health and social care need to be better integrated

Sandra Gidley, chair of the RPS English Pharmacy Board, makes the case for the integration of health and social care funding and explains why pharmacists are needed across the entire health and social care system and at all levels of the NHS.…

Progress with rebalancing medicines legislation programme is unacceptably slow

The snail-like progress of the rebalancing medicines legislation programme continues to amaze me. In June 2014, an expert report on the programme’s impact on hospital pharmacy was completed but only uploaded onto the programme website in November 2016. It contains some radical but eminen…

Best pharmacy practice guidance

ASHP best practices 2016­–2017: position and guidance documents of ASHP, by Bruce Hawkins…

A split pre-registration placement: at the CCG

Catherine Mak was the first pharmacy pre-registration trainee to split her training between Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Here, she discusses her time at the CCG.…

A split pre-registration year: in the hospital

Catherine Mak was the first pharmacy pre-registration trainee to split her training between Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Here, she discusses her time in the hospital.…

Welsh audit body recommends managing medicines plan

The government, the NHS and health bodies should revise the indicators used to compare how different prescribers and organisations use medicines, says a report by the Welsh Audit Office.…

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s most read opinion pieces of 2016

A round up of the most popular opinion pieces of 2016.…