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Health news round-up: Huntington’s disease breakthrough and how to tackle medicines misinformation

Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises some important developments in health news.…

RPS launches new three-year goals to advance pharmacy services in Wales

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said that its goals for 2025–2028 focus on scaling services to enable equal access to care, wherever or however patients access them.…

Patient survey reveals support for deprescribing in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde 

Efforts to address medicines waste and improve prescribing quality are gathering momentum across Scotland following the NHS England ‘National overprescribing review report’, published in 2021​1​. Within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC), the patient experience and public involvement (PE…

Will UK government proposals address the problem of medicines shortages?

Reports of medicines shortages have increased across the UK in recent years, with several factors causing disruption to the supply chain, but do the government’s latest proposals go far enough to tackle the problem?…

NHS online pharmacy applications increase by more than 3,300% in month before market closure

Exclusive: The increase in distance-selling applications observed by NHS England is based on data from June 2025 compared with May 2025.…

Regulator fails on timeliness standard for fitness-to-practise cases for seventh year in a row

The Professional Standards Authority said that while the General Pharmaceutical Council is reducing its aged fitness-to-practise cases, the end-to-end median time from referral to final decision has increased.…

Pharmacy flu vaccines hoped to address low coverage among children

NHS England figures, shared with The Pharmaceutical Journal, show a strong uptake of the vaccination service in pharmacies in areas where previous vaccine coverage was lower, such as London and the Midlands.…

Pharmacy retained margin falls £430m short

The Company Chemists’ Association reported that the actual value of retained margin “ought to be at least £1.28bn in England”.…

The NHS ten-year plan: what does it mean for community pharmacy?

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians form one of the largest healthcare professional groups. How will the ten-year plan harness their skills to meet the government’s three ambitions to shift from analogue to digital, sickness to prevention and hospital care to community?…

Geraldine McCaffrey appointed RPS director for Wales 

The current chair of the RPS Welsh Pharmacy Board will take over from Elen Jones on 1 December 2025, who is moving onto the role of pharmacy dean at Healthcare Education and Improvement Wales.…