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New authentication tool for counterfeit medicines

As Peter McAuley (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014;293:180), Umakant Patel (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014;293:151) and others have previously highlighted, there will be many issues in implementing and developing the largest IT project ever to hit these shores. However, we have to be …

Cancer drug fund top-up highlights value and price of innovation

Extra money for the Cancer Drugs Fund is welcome, giving treatment options to patients with cancers previously considered untreatable, while NICE must be in a position to influence future decisions.…

Take action to prevent misuse of psychotropic medicines in care homes

English Pharmacy Board chairman Dave Branford makes the case for pharmacists to have more input into care home prescribing.…

‘I love my pharmacist’ competition highlights work of community pharmacists

Patient stories form part of magazine competition that aims to raise the profile of pharmacists.…

Develop a strategy for pharmacy and the RPS that integrates pharmacy technicians

I am pleased to hear of progress with the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) and the views of Steve Acres and Tess Fern in this week’s Pharmaceutical Journal (2014;293:180). The way forward has to be close working of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. This may be happening but i…

WHO calls on health sector to promote policies that will reduce climate change

The health sector needs to act quickly and assertively to promote policies that will reduce climate change and its consequences, says the World Health Organization.…

Domperidone must be supplied on prescription, MHRA rules

Domperidone (Motilium), used to treat nausea and vomiting, will be a prescription-only medicine from 4 September 2014.…

Healthcare at Home has further two months to tackle service problems

A home delivery medicine service with responsibility for more than 150,000 patients has been given another two months to get its house in order.…

First woman president of FIP elected

Spanish community pharmacist Carmen Peña has been elected president of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).…

Independence can protect the Scottish NHS

It is disappointing that so many senior figures in Scottish pharmacy declined to say something meaningful when presented with the opportunity by your correspondent, Clare Morrison, in her feature (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014;293:240). I, like many of my colleagues, friends and family,…