Director for RPS Scotland wins FIP Congress oral presentation prize Laura Wilson said she hopes her presentation helped to encourage pharmacists “from across the world to consider how hospital clinical pharmacy services can be transformed to enhance patient care”.…
Understanding human factors in patient safety when prescribing How human factors can help in developing safe prescribing practices and reduce error risk.…
Whole-pack dispensing to be introduced from January 2025 following legislation change Community Pharmacy England says professional judgement should be used to assess whether dispensing 10% more or less than the quantity prescribed is appropriate.…
Prescribing in community pharmacy: will it fail or flourish? With so few pharmacists working in prescribing roles within community pharmacy and so many barriers to becoming a prescriber, how will those who qualify after 2026 be supported to prescribe?…
More than a half of foundation year training sites do not have a DPP for 2025, reveals local survey Exclusive: Results from a poll carried out by the Black Country Integrated Care Board showed that 36 of 68 foundation training sites did not yet have a designated prescribing practitioner in place.…
Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when treating sertraline sexual dysfunction The first of a new series of articles exploring real-world dilemmas that pharmacist prescribers encounter in clinical practice.…
IT system for independent prescribing pathfinder programme ready for rollout, says NHS England More than 200 community pharmacy pathfinder sites across England can now start to use the new electronic prescribing system for the Independent Prescribing in Community Pharmacy Pathfinder Programme.…
Health psychology and advanced communication skills for prescribers An introduction to the principles of health psychology that can be applied during consultations with patients.…
The unregulated semaglutide prescribing circus Why there should be stronger regulations around the prescribing of semaglutide, speaking from experience as a trainee pharmacist supplying this medicine from a community pharmacy in central London.…
Test your knowledge of diabetes This CPD and learning quiz can help you assess your knowledge of a range of diabetes topics, from insulin initiation to complications such as diabetic ketoacidosis.…
