Pharmacist

PJ view: Pharmacy technicians are vital in efforts to rescue pharmacists from their workload

Pharmacy technicians are best placed to take on more responsibility to alleviate workforce pressures across all pharmacy sectors.…

Medicines shortages and slow approvals put ‘significant burden’ on pharmacists, says report

A report by The Nuffield Trust has concluded that medicines shortages have been exacerbated in the UK following Brexit and that approvals are typically slower in Great Britain compared with the EU.…

Chief pharmacist role should be mandatory, says RPS

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has also raised concerns about the wellbeing of chief pharmacists, who it said face risk of burnout, in response to a consultation on draft standards for the role of chief pharmacists.…

Pharmacists working in primary care increase by a quarter in a year

The number of pharmacy technicians working in primary care has also increased, rising by 40.4% between 2022 and 2023.…

MPharm clinical placements: a variable picture across Britain

An overhaul of clinical placements is helping to prepare trainee pharmacists for becoming independent prescribers when they join the professional register, but issues around funding, capacity and expectation are still being ironed out.…

Pharmacists could safely assess mislabelled penicillin allergy, study results suggest

Pharmacists and other non-allergy specialist healthcare professionals assessed 97% of trial participants as having no penicillin allergy.…

Pharmacy First is a step too far unless staffing issues are addressed

I have never felt the need to express my frustrations with our profession so strongly. Over the past ten years or so, we have just had more and more dumped on us. We are dispensing more prescriptions than ever and yet staff have been reduced to dangerously low levels everywhere owing to the increasi…

Training pathway for clinical pharmacy academics should be in place by 2030

NHS England-commissioned report made short-, medium- and long-term recommendations to “support the embedding of research at all stages of a pharmacy professional’s career”.…

RPS calls for authorisation of pharmacy technicians to supervise pharmacies to be documented

In response to the government's consultation on pharmacy supervision, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said the authorisation of a pharmacy technician to prepare and assemble medicines should be documented to protect both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.…

RPS warns four out of five community pharmacy clinical lead roles could disappear when NHS funding ends

Exclusive: Two years after 42 community pharmacy clinical lead posts across integrated care systems were announced, funding for the roles is due to end in April 2024.…