John D’Arcy — looking back on community pharmacy and predictions for the future John D’Arcy, managing director of the virtual community pharmacy chain Numark and former chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association, spells out his vision for pharmacy as he approaches retirement.…
A useful adjunct to on-the-job training in hospital pharmacy Introduction to Acute and Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice, Second Edition, by David A. Holdford.…
Scottish Pharmacy Board meeting: 18 January 2017 The first Scottish Pharmacy Board (SPB) meeting of 2017 was held on 18 January 2017 at Holyrood House in Edinburgh.…
The rise of patient-centred technologies in community pharmacy2017 could see a rise in patient-centred technologies across pharmacy. Martin Hao, managing director at Healthera, a new medicines management app, looks at the reasons behind the trend.…
The people behind the biggest pharmacy stories of 2016 In our review of 2016, The Pharmaceutical Journal highlights the people behind the biggest pharmacy stories of the past 12 months. These are men and women who we considered to be the most strongly connected with the news stories that had the biggest impact on our readers.…
Most popular features of 2016 from The Pharmaceutical Journal Dawn Connelly describes the most popular features and infographics published in 2016.…
Machines cannot replace pharmacistsIndependent community pharmacy contractor Mark Burdon explains what links pharmacy, automation and Charles Dickens.…
Hub and spoke can be the future, says Boots chief pharmacist Speaking at the RPS annual conference, Marc Donovan said pharmacy needs to change and must embrace new technology and services.…
Fully exploit the potentials of hub-and-spoke dispensing and e-prescribingI welcome the reports from your journals relating to hub-and-spoke dispensing ( The Pharmaceutical Journal 2016;296:205) and electronic prescribing ( Clinical Pharmacist 2016;8:144) as valuable contributions to transformation of distribution and supply of medicines and the be…
Community pharmacy plans must be reconsidered in light of Ridge’s inaccurate claimsReports that the chief pharmaceutical officer in England made inaccurate claims to the All-Party Pharmacy Group regarding dispensing error rates and hub-and-spoke dispensing is deeply worrying. The General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) ‘Standards of conduct, ethics and performance&rsqu…
