Pharmacy sectors

Are staff shortages compromising safe pharmacy care?

Chronic staffing gaps across community, hospital and primary care settings are stretching pharmacists to the breaking point and putting patient safety on the line, according to The Pharmaceutical Journal’s 2025 salary and job satisfaction survey.…

CPPE launches training for pharmacy staff to support patients with long COVID

The e-learning programme was developed in partnership with the PHARM-LC study researchers, who consulted with people who have long COVID and sought views of pharmacy teams on how best to support them.…

Less than half of pharmacists who can prescribe do so daily

Exclusive: One in ten community pharmacist respondents to The Pharmaceutical Journal's 2025 salary survey said they had never prescribed, despite holding an IP qualification.…

Pharmacy teams facing abuse after ‘high numbers’ of ineligible patients book COVID-19 vaccinations

Pharmacy teams have reported having to spend a large amount of unfunded time explaining COVID vaccination eligibility to patients, some of whom have become angry and abusive.…

Pharmacy is crucial to improving outcomes for people diagnosed with bowel cancer

The role of pharmacy is vital in supporting earlier diagnosis of suspected bowel cancer.…

Around half of pharmacies are not delivering ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Exclusive: According to analysis by The Pharmaceutical Journal, the number of pharmacies that did not deliver any ambulatory blood pressure monitoring consultations each month has decreased by 10%.…

GPhC proposes increasing pharmacy technicians’ level of study

A consultation document has outlined proposals to raise the level of pharmacy technicians’ roles to Regulated Qualifications Framework level 4 in England and Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework level 7 in Scotland.…

Health news round-up: mosquitoes, new HIV guidelines and research into cannabis and psilocybin

Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises some important developments in health news.…

Expanding community pharmacy services could save NHS almost £4bn

The National Pharmacy Association also notes that the data in its report equate to “over 100,000 years of additional healthy life per annum" for patients.…

Redefining the pharmacist of the future

Pharmacy is moving in an exciting clinical direction but, unless early career pathway opportunities are broadened, the profession risks losing valuable talent.…