Personal and professional development

A flexible approach will make the most of changes to pharmacy education and training

As pharmacy training sites prepare to supervise a cohort of trainee prescribing pharmacists, Noma Al-Ahmad shares her view on how to navigate the new requirements.…

Diabetic ketoacidosis in adults: identification, diagnosis and management

All healthcare professionals who support people with diabetes should be aware of this complex medical emergency so that they can recognise red flag symptoms.…

Using virtual reality to motivate young people to begin a career in pharmacy

A project driven by a clinical Fellow at Health Education and Improvement Wales is offering virtual reality work experience in pharmacy to improve accessibility and inclusion in the profession.…

Case-based learning: social prescribing and pharmacy professionals

How pharmacy professionals can use social prescribing to complement traditional medicines and improve patient care.…

Our experience as pharmacists in ‘SPACE’

Three pharmacists describe their experience working on the multicentre SPACE study, which aims to tackle false penicillin allergy labels.…

Provision of Pharmacy First services variable across England, NHS data show

Data show wide variation between the number of consultations carried out by pharmacies across England in the first month of Pharmacy First, ranging from 5 consultations per pharmacy to 20 consultations per pharmacy.…

Guiding better research or stifling it?

The pick of the month’s academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…

Architecture exhibit aims to start a discussion on the use of space in community pharmacies

The field of health architecture looks at how working environments are designed, exploring what spaces mean to people and how they interact with them.…

Making skill mix a reality: the advancing role of pharmacy technicians

With pharmacy technicians’ responsibilities in the pharmacy team growing fast, debate around the additional training they need is resurging.…

A new way to explore professional skills learning content from The Pharmaceutical Journal

Introducing The Pharmaceutical Journal’s newly reorganised collection of professional skills articles responding to the changing learning requirements of the pharmacy profession.…