Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Review calls for improvements to medicines management in Welsh hospitals

Unannounced inspections of facilities providing hospital care for elderly patients in Wales have revealed serious shortfalls in medicines management.…

National minor ailment scheme could help save NHS £1bn

Community pharmacists in England could help save the NHS up to £1bn a year if they were contracted to run a national minor ailments service.…

Pharmacy is striding forwards

Sandra Gidley reports on the discussions she led at the Liberal Democrats Party Conference.…

Future for pharmacy in Wales should be centred on pharmaceutical care

Politicians in Wales should back a new vision for pharmacy that makes pharmaceutical care a priority. …

Pharmacists should no longer be at risk of prosecution for dispensing errors

New contract between the NHS and community pharmacists in England should hasten change in the criminalisation of dispensing errors.…

How trainee pharmacists can be supported through the registration exam

Nadia Bukhari, chairwoman of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society pre-registration panel, and panel member Oksana Pyzik, both from UCL School of Pharmacy, describe the support that trainees can access through RPS events.…

Urgent care campaign to call for greater pharmacist role

A campaign to promote greater use of pharmacists to relieve mounting pressures on urgent and emergency NHS services has been launched.…

Medicines care plans proposed to join up NHS care

An electronic “pharmaceutical care plan” should be introduced to improve the integration of care, according to a report on the future of pharmacy in Wales.…

Risks of opioid use

30th September 2014: The Daily Mail reported on a statement from the American Academy of Neurology that said the risks of strong painkillers, including codeine, morphine and oxycodone, outweigh the benefits. Speaking to the paper, Royal Pharmaceutical Society spokesperson Roger Knaggs said: “L…

Using antibiotics frugally

10 October 2014: the first annual report of Public Health England’s English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance was published, showing a 6% increase between 2010 and 2013 in the prescribing of antibiotics by GPs and hospitals. Speaking to BBC Radio Ber…