OPERA 2025: Smita Salunke Introducing the second member of the OPERA 2025 shortlist, Smita Salunke, senior research fellow at the UCL School of Pharmacy.…
OPERA 2025: Jennifer Stevenson Introducing the first member of the OPERA 2025 shortlist, Jennifer Stevenson, lead pharmacist for older adults at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London.…
NHS App to be used to recruit patients for clinical trials The Department of Health and Social Care said it is particularly encouraging underrepresented groups, such as people from ethnic minority backgrounds, to sign up to trials.…
Patients involved in design of fewer than one-fifth of published trials, research shows For articles reporting on randomised controlled trials, published between 2015 and 2023, the researchers found that 18% included patient and public involvement.…
Exploring research methods used in pharmacy research The pick of recent academic papers from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's chief scientist’s office.…
Top ten articles of 2024 from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s research journals As this year draws to a close, we look back at the most popular research articles on the science and practice of pharmacy in 2024.…
Government to set up 20 research hubs with £100m VPAG investment The new commercial research delivery centres place clinical trials into community settings to enable under-served regions to improve their participation in research.…
Government opens £400m investment programme to boost UK clinical trials The investment programme will increase the UK’s capacity for clinical trials and give researchers greater access to the latest equipment and technology, the government said.…
Getting into research In this episode of The PJ Pod, we speak to pharmacy professionals who have developed research careers to find out the practical steps pharmacists can take to thrive as researchers.…
Writing for pleasure or pain? This month’s pick of academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief pharmacist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…