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Staying safe with online pharmacies: what patients and providers need to know about weight-loss prescribing

What pharmacy staff and patients should know about weight-loss prescribing, as regulatory communications continue to highlight concerns related to online weight-loss services.…

England should learn from Romania’s medicine pricing system

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, medicine prices in the UK have fluctuated like never before, with unprecedented increases over the past year. This situation, combined with wider economic pressures, has resulted in the closure of pharmacies across the UK and has placed enormous strain on those that rema…

MHRA asks for views on rare disease therapy plans

The ‘Rare disease therapies regulatory framework’ would incorporate a compressed regulatory pathway, aimed to reduce the cost of developing rare disease therapies and make them more affordable, the MHRA said.…

Study authors suggest optimal dosing for different ADHD medications

Despite concerns about subtherapeutic prescribing, researchers said the dose–effect relationships of all ADHD medications and age groups had “not been comprehensively assessed” prior to their study.…

Discharge medicines service: scaling success nationwide 

Integrated care boards have shared how they are using the discharge medicines service to its full potential, despite figures showing that it is vastly under-utilised.…

APTUK calls for more support for community pharmacy technician trainees

Amy Laflin, president of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK, told The Pharmaceutical Journal that equitable access to training investment for the community pharmacy sector is crucial to “meet rising demand and fully contribute to national workforce ambitions”.…

Number of community pharmacists falls by 10% in a year

Results from the 2025 NHS England ‘Community pharmacy workforce survey’ have revealed that there were 25,822 pharmacists working in community pharmacies in England in 2025, compared with 28,763 in 2024.…

MHRA is ‘exploring legislative actions’ to restrict paracetamol sales, says health minister

Health minister Preet Kaur Gill said that the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency took the disproportionate sale of paracetamol seriously.…

Clinical decision support tools in pharmacy practice

Practical advice for pharmacy teams on the current use of clinical decision support tools, as well as their benefits and limitations.…

Regulator appoints council members for 2026 and 2027

The newly appointed members to the governing council comprise a range of backgrounds, which include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.…