How to conduct a clinical review of a patient’s medicines Best practice principles and practical advice for structuring medication reviews and approaching conversations with patients.…
NHS England to offer extra 25 placements in health and justice sites for trainee pharmacists The additional placements mean there will be 26 trainee pharmacy placements at health at justice sites in 2024/2025.…
Royal Pharmaceutical Society collaboration will offer fully-funded pathway for advanced pharmacist practice There are 300 places available for the first cohort, with more expected to be made available later in 2023.…
Complex and inflexible: the shortcomings of serious shortage protocols Use of ‘serious shortage protocols’ dropped significantly in 2022, despite growing numbers of medicine shortages, leaving pharmacists calling for the system to be overhauled.…
Taiwo Owatemi: ‘Pharmacists should be able to refer patients straight to secondary care’ Labour MP and locum pharmacist Taiwo Owatemi shares her views on how to handle pressures on the NHS and why the government is dragging its feet with England’s ‘Pharmacy First’ scheme.…
NHS England to remove financial incentives for structured medication reviews in 2023/2024 Incentives to switch patients to environmentally friendly inhalers and to prescribe more patients with edoxaban will also be scrapped.…
Effective deprescribing: getting the most from medicine In this episode of The PJ Pod, two experts outline what it takes to deliver effective deprescribing.…
Tackling pharmacy’s reliance on single-use plastic A project that began in 2019 has resulted in annual savings of 300,000 pieces of single-use plastic across two large acute NHS trusts.…
PJ view: Pharmacy’s professional leadership body deserves an independent voice Those appointing the new Pharmacy Leadership Council should carefully consider how best to empower pharmacy to develop standards and leadership that are fit for the future.…
Union ballots pharmacists in Northern Ireland on strike action for the first time Members of the Pharmacists' Defence Association in Northern Ireland will be balloted on strike action over pay, after 94% of survey respondents called for a strike over the government's proposed 2022/2023 pay award.…
