Personal and professional development

Former RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board chair receives Charter Award

Jonathan Burton was one of the first community pharmacist prescribers in Scotland and was involved in the development of NHS Pharmacy First Scotland.…

Ethnicity awarding gap for UK pharmacy graduates narrowed during COVID-19 pandemic

Exclusive: Data analysis suggests a 4-percentage-point drop in the difference between the proportions of white and ethnic minority MPharm graduates awarded an upper-class degree.…

How to conduct a clinical review of a patient’s medicines

Best practice principles and practical advice for structuring medication reviews and approaching conversations with patients.…

Royal Pharmaceutical Society collaboration will offer fully-funded pathway for advanced pharmacist practice

There are 300 places available for the first cohort, with more expected to be made available later in 2023.…

PJ view: Pharmacy’s professional leadership body deserves an independent voice

Those appointing the new Pharmacy Leadership Council should carefully consider how best to empower pharmacy to develop standards and leadership that are fit for the future.…

New mentor role introduced to help train independent pharmacist prescribers in Scotland

A pilot scheme across three health board areas will see the creation of a new designated prescribing supervisor role.…

How we improved dysphagia care and saved more than £40,000 per year

Having recognised that care home residents at risk of dysphagia were facing long waiting times, Thomas Sauter's team in Bridgend, Wales, devised a successful pilot that increased capacity and saved more than £40,000 in attributable hospital costs.…

The new Pharmacy Leadership Council must be established quickly

For far too long the plethora of disparate pharmacy bodies have worked predominantly independently, only to join together when mutually beneficial to do so — and usually with the interests of their members paramount — rather than those of the wider public and patients. This is unsustainable if t…

Specialist mental health training pathway for pharmacists in England extended by two years

There will be 70 funded places available on the training pathway for each year.…

Nigel Clarke and Dame Jane Dacre: ‘In a way, this is resetting the button 13 years later’

The co-chairs of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership are proposing the establishment of a Pharmacy Leadership Council, but many questions remain on how this could be implemented.…