How we led a quality driven diabetes switching programme for generic dapagliflozin NHS Sussex switched thousands of patients without compromising on safety or clinical credibility — and achieved a £2.5m net annual saving.…
Call to expand shingles vaccine following cardiovascular research Researchers found a 9% reduction in cardiovascular disease burden among people who received the recombinant adjuvanted vaccine Shingrix compared with the live shingles vaccine.…
Pharmacies deliver nearly 250,000 MenB vaccines since July 2026 Between 20 July 2026 and 31 August 2026, community pharmacies in England gave 246,089 doses of the MenB vaccine to young people under a NHS vaccination campaign.…
Lack of clarity may make cholesterol service ‘unviable’ for community pharmacies Exclusive: NHS England has revealed that around 100 pharmacies in England will participate in a pilot to offer walk-in cholesterol check-ups for people aged 40–84 years who are not pregnant and have not had a blood test in the past year.…
Lost in fine print: how patient information leaflets are failing patients Is it time for there to be a change in how patient information leaflets are presented in order to improve health literacy and cut down on accidental double dosing?…
Best practice for clopidogrel prescribing An overview of the considerations for prescribing clopidogrel, as well as how to provide effective patient counselling on the drug's use.…
Why do women in England’s poorest areas have lower rates of HRT prescribing? Hormone replacement therapy prescribing has more than doubled since 2020/2021, but new data show that deep regional and ethnic inequalities in prescribing remain.…
More than 21,000 people with severe asthma receiving biologic treatment, says health minister Baroness Merron said that the figures were based on the number of requests for either new initiation or continuation of asthma biologic treatment received between June 2025 and May 2026.…
HRT use associated with reduced dementia risk, study suggests Researchers found that the initiation of hormone replacement therapy in women aged 46–56 years was linked with a 10% reduced risk of dementia.…
Giardia infections rose by 11.4% in 2025, UKHSA data shows Between 2024 and 2025, London saw the highest number of Giardia infections with more than 1,500 cases, UK Health Security Agency data highlights.…
