Expanding the role of community pharmacy for the benefit of patients Katie Hovenden explains how promoting public health has led to her being the first pharmacist to be named as an inspirational female leader by the Health Service Journal.…
Medicines supply chain ‘overwhelmed’ by Ebola crisis Pharmacists working in West Africa have spoken about the overwhelming scale of the challenges they have faced in Liberia in the battle against the Ebola virus.…
Community pharmacists identify people at risk of diabetesPharmacists can identify patients who have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research by the University of East Anglia and Boots UK confirms.…
How a pharmacy-led lung cancer awareness campaign met NHS aimsHow a “Lung cancer awareness month” campaign demonstrated pharmacy’s crucial live-saving role in detecting the disease…
Do community pharmacy counter staff have a public health role?This article aims to evaluate how community pharmacy counter staff view their role as pharmacy healthy living advisers as part of a service evaluation to develop community pharmacy’s public health role.…
Public health: why pharmacy counts Miriam Armstrong, chief executive of PharmacyHealthLink, explains what public health means and how pharmacists can contribute to it.…
