National pharmacy board meetings: September 2025 In September 2025, the national pharmacy boards heard updates on new or updated policies on patient safety, aseptic preparation services and assisted dying.…
Patient safety commissioner pushes government on valproate redress almost two years after report Exclusive: In a statement made to The Pharmaceutical Journal, Henrietta Hughes has urged the government to provide a full response to recommendations made in her February 2024 report.…
The value of leadership in medication safety Pharmacy leadership is central to reducing medication harm, empowering staff and delivering high-value safety improvements across the NHS, argues Tony Jamieson.…
Valproate in pregnancy reaches lowest level yet, data suggest Sodium valproate prescriptions for women and girls aged 12 to 54 years have almost halved since measures were introduced to reduce prescribing in April 2018.…
RPS urges patients to seek medicines information from ‘trusted source’ after Trump links paracetamol and autism The president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society urged anyone with concerns about their medicines to speak to a pharmacist or a trusted healthcare professional.…
Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum This CPD article comprehensively covers nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, as well as how pharmacists can help manage its severe form: hyperemesis gravidarum.…
Yellow Card reporting to be taught across schools in England The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's Yellow Card scheme enables people to report an adverse event or side effect relating to medicines and medical devices in the UK.…
Valproate has no significant impact on male fertility, study finds Researchers found that prior studies that linked valproate to male infertility in patients with epilepsy mainly used healthy men without epilepsy as controls.…
Patients waiting up to three weeks for essential medicines because pharmacists cannot make substitutions A survey conducted by the National Pharmacy Association also revealed that 97% of pharmacies reported patients waiting at least once per day for medicines that were out of stock.…
Under half of patients get medicines information on hospital discharge, CQC survey finds The 2024 Care Quality Commission adults inpatient survey also revealed that 20% of patients were given an explanation of their medicines’ side effects upon discharge from hospital.…
