Pharmacy sectors

We must work together to enable safer prescribing in children

I write a letter in response to The Pharmaceutical Journal article 'GPs must take on more responsibility for paediatric prescribing from hospitals' by Alison Tennant, published on 13 September 2021. The opinion piece sets out to raise questions as to why more paediatric prescribing does not occur in…

Pharmacy should be represented in new NHS structures, say primary care bodies

A letter written to the parliamentary committee scrutinising the Health and Care Bill calls on new 'integrated care boards' to include formalised roles for all types of primary care professions, not just GPs.…

Access to pharmacists at all times would reduce medication errors in hospital, concludes review

The review also said that wider implementation of electronic prescribing systems and an integrated electronic health record could help reduce errors.…

Hospital pharmacists’ body ‘extremely disappointed’ in 3% pay rise for NHS staff

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has criticised the government's announcement of a 3% pay rise for NHS staff.…

Social prescribing in community pharmacy: a systematic review and thematic synthesis

A review of the involvement of community pharmacy in social prescribing.…

Unplanned medicines and their link to mental health ward readmissions

The views expressed in this letter are those of the author’s. If you would like to submit a letter to The Pharmaceutical Journal, please click here. Readmission following discharge is relatively common in mental health services​[1]​. In 2016, Donisi et al. reported that the overall 30-…

Does community pharmacy have an image problem?

A report by the Community Pharmacy Workforce Development Group suggests that pharmacies in England are struggling to recruit, partly because of the way the sector is perceived.…

‘I want to change the perception of pharmacy’ — a day in the life of a community hospital pharmacist

Hospital pharmacist Patryk Poniatowski shares a typical day working with the multidisciplinary team at a peripheral community hospital in South Wales.…

‘I write 50–60 repeat prescriptions every week’ — a day in the life of a rheumatology pharmacist

Specialist pharmacist Andrew Pothecary manages the day-to-day care of patients on disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs.…

Collaboration not competition: the NHS masterplan to keep patients out of hospital

Health challenges and inequalities have been exacerbated by COVID-19, meaning providing joined up health and social care that keeps people out of hospital is more important than ever, and is central to the government’s blueprint for the NHS in England. Pharmacy teams are already playing an integra…