UK’s first safe drug consumption room expected to open in October 2024 The safe drug consumption facility will allow people to use illegal drugs in a sterile environment at Hunter Street Health and Social Care Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.…
Less than 20% of pharmacists undertook DPP training over the past year, survey reveals Exclusive: Community pharmacists were the most engaged with DPP training, with almost one-quarter of respondents saying they had undertaken training.…
Government advises NHS service providers to hold PPE stocks in response to mpox risk The NHS Health Security Agency has advised pharmacies to ensure they have adequate stocks of PPE for the assessment and treatment of anyone who may present with suspected clade I mpox virus.…
Impact of GP industrial action on community pharmacies has been ‘mixed’, pharmacy leaders say Pharmacy leaders have warned that community pharmacies have been left in a “precarious position” by GPs’ work-to-rule action, led by the British Medical Association.…
The unregulated semaglutide prescribing circus Why there should be stronger regulations around the prescribing of semaglutide, speaking from experience as a trainee pharmacist supplying this medicine from a community pharmacy in central London.…
Deaths related to drug misuse in Scotland rose by almost 12% in 2023 The National Records of Scotland data show that opioids were implicated in 80% of the misuse-related deaths in 2023.…
Lessons from testing 2,300 patients at the UK’s first CYP2C19 genotyping system Specialist clinical pharmacist Alex Matos explains what his team has learned in the two years since setting up the NHS Tayside project to genotype acute stroke patients with an indication for clopidogrel.…
Expanded ‘subscription model’ for new antibiotics to be funded with £100m per year Individual annual contract values will range from £5m to £20m, based on a value banding system.…
More than 10,000 whooping cough cases reported in first six months of 2024 Case numbers of whooping cough in 2024 so far have already exceeded the total number of cases reported in 2012, the last major outbreak of the disease.…
Pharmacy bodies call for action to ensure access to designated prescribing practitioners A joint report by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and National Pharmacy Association encourages pharmacies to work together to assess their readiness to provide a prescribing learning environment.…
