Five tips to improve wellbeing from the Wardley workshopCharity Pharmacist Support has recently launched a series of wellbeing workshops for pharmacists, preregistration trainees and pharmacy students. Emma Page shares some tips from the workshop she attended this week.…
Robert Blyth, former PJ editor, diesRobert Blyth, FRPharmS, who edited The Pharmaceutical Journal from 1961 to 1986, has died. A pharmaceutical journalist for the greater part of his career, he died on 27 November 2014, aged 93.…
Fifth pharmacist falls foul of regulator after BBC stingA superintendent pharmacist has been suspended from practice for 12 months after his sales assistant was filmed selling amoxicillin and Viagra to an undercover reporter.…
Chief pharmacists warned of need for succession planning for procurement roles Succession planning is urgently needed to prepare for the swathe of experienced pharmacists buying medicines for hospitals who will shortly retire, an independent review has warned.…
GPhC reviews fitness-to-practise guidelines Pharmacists who are dishonest with patients when care goes wrong could be removed from the professional register, the General Pharmaceutical Council has proposed.…
Disillusioned with the future of pharmacyAfter becoming qualified and working as a locum community pharmacist for over a year, I am already disillusioned by what the future of pharmacy will be. I agree with Adnan Baig’s letter ( The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014:293:524) regarding how an uncontrolled, competitive market wil…
Patients in England could access their own GP records by March 2015 All patients in England will be able to access their own GP records by March 2015 and their entire healthcare records by 2017, under plans contained in a report by the National Information Board.…
Winter pressure leads to £300m NHS boost and plea to use pharmacies The UK Government is to inject an extra £300m into the NHS to help support local health services as winter approaches.…
Review of fitness-to-practise cases suggests pharmacy regulator acts fairly Pharmacists are likely to be dealt with fairly if they find themselves up before the professional regulator’s fitness-to-practise committee, according to published research.…
Is it art to exploit the drug industry’s designs? The Paul Stolper Gallery is hosting the latest pharmacy-inspired Damien Hirst exhibition. Andrew Haynes questions whether this is art or exploitation.…