What will 2026 hold for pharmacy? In this special episode of The PJ Pod, The Pharmaceutical Journal’s editorial team share their predictions for the year ahead.…
Health news round-up: the year in health across England, Scotland and Wales A weekly summary of important developments in health news, with summaries from each of the Welsh, Scottish and English chief medical officers’ annual reports.…
All patients should undergo pharmacogenetic testing before being prescribed clopidogrel The UK Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics has highlighted that a significant proportion of the UK population have lower CYP2C19 enzyme levels, which lower the effectiveness of the antiplatelet drug.…
Community pharmacists should be able to amend prescriptions, says RPS In response to a government consultation on offering greater dispensing flexibilities for community pharmacists, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society noted that pharmacists in Scotland can already do this without comparative increases in prescribing costs.…
Participation in commercial clinical trials falls for fourth year in a row, finds ABPI An Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry report showed that although the number of trial participants increased, the proportion of people recruited to commercial trials was dropping.…
Collaboration to diversify trial participation through community pharmacies launched The National Pharmacy Association and the Centre for Research Equity have outlined plans to develop a network of research sites in community pharmacies to support inclusive participation in research.…
Ngozi Kalu: ‘When research lacks representation, findings become biased and inequalities emerge’ As assistant director for research and evidence for the NHS Race and Health Observatory, Ngozi Kalu is at the epicentre of the organisation’s mission to end ethnic inequalities across the NHS.…
Managing patients with cardiorenal metabolic disease An overview of the pathophysiology of cardiorenal metabolic disease, medication optimisation strategies and the role of the pharmacist in medication management and patient education.…
RPS invites responses to pharmacogenomics prescribing consultation The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said that its draft pharmacogenomic resource offers reflections on how competencies taken from its ‘Competency framework for all prescribers’ apply to pharmacogenomics.…
Patient access to 24/7 palliative care medicines is ‘insufficient’, finds House of Commons-commissioned report The report also suggested that there was a “postcode lottery” in integrated care board provision of palliative care and end-of-life services.…
