Pharmacy First service may ‘swamp’ pharmacies with work, RPS Scottish chair warns Pharmacists in Scotland could face being “swamped with work” under the expanded Pharmacy First scheme, which is due to launch in April 2020, the chair of the RPS Scottish Pharmacy Board has warned.…
Scotland should not limit prescribing of OTCs, RPS tells Scottish Parliament Jonathan Burton, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Pharmacy Board, has told members of the Scottish Parliament that it would be “ridiculous” if decisions on which medicines NHS practitioners are allowed to prescribe were based on their availability over the count…
Community pharmacy paediatric palliative care pilot launched in Scotland A 12-month pilot of a community pharmacy-led palliative care service specifically targeted at children has launched in Scotland.…
Medicine shortages took an extra hour per week of pharmacist time in 2019, survey finds Pharmacists across the EU spent an extra hour each week dealing with medicines shortages in 2019, following an increase in the number of medicines shortages compared with 2018, a survey has found.…
Community pharmacy referral scheme is not a new concept The community pharmacist consultation service has been lauded since it was announced in July 2019, but it is similar to schemes that have been tried in recent years.…
Number of preregistration pharmacists increases by 60% in one year A record number of pharmacy graduates in Wales have taken up preregistration placements for the year 2020/2021, the government has said.…
Scottish government pledges 120 more preregistration places over three years The Scottish government has committed to creating 120 additional pharmacy preregistration training places over the next three years, as part of its health and social care workforce plan.…
FMD finds no falsified medicines in UK after ten months, says MHRA Safety features mandated through the falsified medicines directive have not detected any falsified medicines in the UK since its launch.…
Top ten most popular articles from Your RPS in 2019 There have been big changes across the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in 2019: it has been a year of new faces, new campaigns, new publications and, for the RPS in Scotland, a new home.…
EU council members suggest relocating drugs manufacturing processes to Europe Members of the Council of the European Union have debated whether relocating medicines production back to the EU would mitigate medicines shortages.…
