Community pharmacies should publicise availability of ‘critical’ palliative medicines, RPS standards recommend The end-of-life standards suggest that groups of pharmacies should find a way to share information on local or national medicines supply chain problems.…
New RPS standards recommend that community pharmacies should ‘proactively manage’ palliative care medicines The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and charity Marie Curie propose the development of multidisciplinary team working, so that pharmacy teams are aware of patients' support needs.…
Renal cancer: management An overview of the most common forms of renal cancer, treatment options and the role of pharmacists in its management.… Supported content
Opioid use in palliative care: selection, initiation and optimisation Opioids are commonly administered as part of end-of-life care. Pharmacists should know how to select, initiate and optimise opioids to best meet patient needs.…
Anticipatory prescribing practices rapidly changing under COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to innovation in anticipatory prescribing practices within community palliative care, the results of a survey in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care have shown.…
Caring for palliative care patients at home: medicines management principles and considerations Pharmacists need to understand the range of medicine support that they and their teams can provide to palliative care patients and their caregivers.…
Community pharmacy paediatric palliative care pilot launched in Scotland A 12-month pilot of a community pharmacy-led palliative care service specifically targeted at children has launched in Scotland.…
Case-based learning: palliative and end-of-life care in community pharmacy Community pharmacists encounter patients at all stages in their life; however, patients who require palliative care require dedicated time and special consideration.…
Older people with terminal cancer ‘overprescribed’ preventative drugs Older patients with cancer receiving end-of-life care may be overprescribed preventative medicines, study results have shown.…
Palliative Care Formulary now available on MedicinesComplete The Palliative Care Formulary is now available on MedicinesComplete, following the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s acquisition of its publisher, PalliativeDrugs.com, in August 2018.…
