NHS England looking to increase international recruitment of pharmacists Leanne Clews, pharmacy dean at NHS England, said there was a need to look at education and training pathways into the Overseas Pharmacists' Assessment Programme.…
All 42 integrated health boards in England submit bids for pharmacy independent prescribing services Expressions of interest most commonly included services that focus on cardiovascular diseases, which would involve community pharmacists initiating antihypertensives and statins.…
RPS to produce green pharmacy toolkit The Society will create guidance to help pharmacy teams reduce environmental impact alongside a sustainability accreditation scheme. programme.…
NICE COVID-19 management guidelines are leaving hospitals ‘in limbo’ Conditional recommendations for COVID-19 treatments has created a “gap between guideline recommendations and current practice”, according to an expert.…
NICE says more evidence needed for newer UTI point-of-care tests Several newer point-of-care tests were not recommended in latest guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, in which it concluded that more research needs to be carried out on their accuracy.…
NHS to publish guidance on sharing pharmacy workforce across healthcare settings The government has said NHS England is developing guidance for shared pharmacy workforce models to mitigate supply issues and aid retention.…
Lessons community pharmacy could learn from the junior doctors’ strike The Pharmaceutical Journal's health policy columnist considers what pharmacists can take from the junior doctors' approach to industrial action.…
‘A global outlier’: how drug firms are fighting back against UK tax increases With the UK tax on net sales of branded medicines quadrupling over the past three years, medicine manufacturers warn it will affect access to new drugs and are threatening to withdraw — but are these empty threats?…
Private pharmacy semaglutide services must provide long-term support, say experts Exclusive: Online pharmacies and large multiples are already signing patients up to receive information about their new private semaglutide services as soon as the drug becomes available in the UK, which is expected to be soon.…
Thousands of NHS patients with prostate or breast cancer eligible for new targeted treatment NHS England says around 800 people in England could be eligible for olaparib treatment each year.…
