Relieving pressure from GPs by treating minor ailments in community pharmacy The Extended Primary Integrated Care pilot initiative in Brighton and Hove allows community pharmacists to take referrals from GPs to treat minor ailments. Independent prescriber Sue Oliver is pharmacist consultant on the project.…
RPS leaders: braced for a challenging year The three Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) board chairs in England, Scotland and Wales tell Stephen Robinson what 2015 holds for the pharmacy profession and how they plan to tackle the challenges to come.…
Establishing an electronic prescribing system at a new hospital in Qatar Hospital pharmacist Anish Patel moved to Qatar in 2014 to help set-up a new women and children’s hospital in Doha. Here, he describes his role in establishing an electronic prescribing system.…
Helping reduce doctors’ prescribing errors in hospitals A study in 2009 found that prescribing error rates for junior doctors are around 9%. Education and training pharmacist Sophia Feret describes a scheme she devised to help reduce these errors.…
Careers: most popular articles from 2014Online readers of the Pharmaceutical Journal, Clinical Pharmacist and Tomorrow’s Pharmacist were drawn to practical advice about starting or advancing their career, according to statistics on careers articles published in 2014.…
Shadowing a resident on-call pharmacist in hospitalHospital pre-registration trainee Helen Caley had the opportunity to shadow a shift with an on-call resident pharmacist. She describes some of the queries they tackled together.…
What is a hospital ship?The Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argus, a ship that has been helping with the Ebola crisis in west Africa, is equipped with a 100-bed medical complex, but it cannot be classified as a hospital ship. Roger Poole explains.…
Pharmacists to work in A&E departments in NHS England pilotA national pilot of pharmacists working in accident and emergency departments is to start in February 2015, following a trial of the scheme in the West Midlands.…
Putting milestones into perspective Emma Graham-Clarke found inspiration from a patient when struggling to complete a list of tasks.…
England’s Department of Health to review hospital pharmacy services to identify cost savings England’s Department of Health is to review hospital pharmacy services as part of a wider examination of how to cut waste in NHS procurement.…