Professional judgement in pharmacy

How to use clinical reasoning in pharmacy

How pharmacists can develop and incorporate clinical reasoning processes in practice, using a case example to highlight the approach.…

How to evaluate the impact of a quality improvement intervention

Measurement is the only way to tell if a pharmacy quality improvement intervention has made an impact.…

Reflective practice for pharmacist prescribers

How reflection can be used as a tool for improving prescribing practice.…

Diabetic ketoacidosis in adults: identification, diagnosis and management

All healthcare professionals who support people with diabetes should be aware of this complex medical emergency so that they can recognise red flag symptoms.…

Performing a physical examination on a patient when prescribing

An introduction to the main techniques and approaches prescribers can use when performing a physical examination.…

Quality improvement in pharmacy practice

An overview of the quality improvement philosophy, the common methods, tools and approaches used with pharmacy examples showing how it can continuously improve practice.…

Pharmacists’ Defence Association says professional standards will benefit corporate employers

Proposed new professional standards for pharmacists have been condemned as “Orwellian” by the Pharmacists’ Defence Association, which says the standards have been designed to benefit large corporate pharmacy employers.…

Boots makes legal complaints against The Guardian newspaper

Boots UK has made legal complaints against The Guardian in relation to several articles following its April 2016 investigation, which alleged that the pharmacy chain had placed undue pressure on its pharmacists to perform medicines use reviews so that it could claim the maximum payments possible fro…

Standards for pharmacy professionals modernised

The General Pharmaceutical Council has rewritten its standards for pharmacy professionals, with the aim of providing the regulatory framework required for the evolving roles and working practices of the profession.…

Shining a light on drug company payments to healthcare professionals

From 2016 the UK public will be able to find out whether their doctor receives payments from drug companies – but is disclosure a good thing?…