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Developing the clinical pharmacy technician role for mental health triaging

NHS England & NHS Improvement are building on the 'NHS long-term plan', focusing on the mental health provision within mental health services. Against this context, we wanted to improve the therapeutic inpatient mental health care within our service by developing a clinical pharmacy technic…

Long-term opioid prescribing rates rose by almost a third during the COVID-19 pandemic

Exclusive: "Worrying" NHS data show a dramatic escalation in the number of patients prescribed opioids for longer than three months.…

Renal cancer: management

An overview of the most common forms of renal cancer, treatment options and the role of pharmacists in its management.…

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Community pharmacies in England carry out more than 110,000 blood pressure checks in six months

Community pharmacies also provided ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to nearly 5,000 patients.…

NICE to approve icosapent ethyl for some high-risk cardiovascular patients

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says 425,000 people with established cardiovascular disease could benefit from treatment with icosapent ethyl.…

More than a quarter of patients overusing rescue inhalers for asthma, study finds

Researchers from Queen Mary University London warned that salbutamol inhalers can increase risk of anxiety and tachycardia.…

Diamorphine shortage causing former heroin users to relapse for first time in a decade, charities warn

With all strengths of diamorphine injections currently out of stock, charities have said patients are returning to using heroin.…

Welsh government plans to expand PrEP access to community pharmacies

The Welsh government's draft action plan outlines 26 recommendations to reduce HIV transmission and improve the lives of people with HIV.…

First two antimicrobial drugs funded by NHS subscription payment scheme to be given to patients

The NHS England payment scheme is aimed to incentivise antimicrobial drug innovation.…

Deprivation and ethnicity linked with lower anticoagulation prescribing for atrial fibrillation, study reveals

Researchers found that, compared with white people, black people were 22% less likely to be prescribed an oral anticoagulant and those from other ethnic minorities were 24% less likely.…