Prescribing

Expansion of pharmacist independent prescribing service to start in November 2021

Exclusive: Digital Health and Care Wales has completed an assurance that will allow all health boards to commission additional sites to provide the 'Choose Pharmacy' independent prescribing service from 1 November 2021.…

Scottish government funds 130 post-registration training places from October 2021

The training will include an independent prescriber course for early-years pharmacists.…

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…

GPs must take on more responsibility for paediatric prescribing from hospitals

The importance of safe paediatric prescribing must not be overlooked as healthcare systems evolve.…

Prescribing of zuclopenthixol is on the rise and can now be tracked

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. We thank colleagues from Surrey for their case report — 'Risk of medication errors with zuclopenthixol' (The Pharmaceutical Journal online, 1…

Thorrun Govind: ‘I worry pharmacy teams will be abused over face masks’

The youngest chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board talks about face masks in pharmacies, the value of pharmacist independent prescribers and the importance of inclusion and wellbeing in the profession.…

Independent prescribing pharmacists deliver 16,000 consultations since 2016

Out of the 713 community pharmacies in Wales, 33 have delivered a combined total of 16,005 independent prescriber consultations.…

Regulator recommends thyroid function tests for patients on levothyroxine with persistent symptoms

The Medicines and Healthcare products Agency has suggested that patients receive a thyroid function test if they experience persistent symptoms after switching between different formulations of the thyroid hormone levothyroxine.…

CQC proposes law change to close online prescribing loopholes linked to patient deaths

The Care Quality Commission said its proposed legislative changes would improve its ability to regulate independent care providers that are currently “putting people’s lives at risk”.…

Prescribing of thyroid hormone increases by more than 60% in a decade

Exclusive: Prescriptions for the thyroid hormone levothyroxine have increased by more than 12 million in a decade.…