NICE assessment processes are too complicated, MPs warns government A letter from the House of Commons Science Innovation and Technology Committee has warned that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s procedures make it harder for the public “to understand the process through which medicines and technologies reach the NHS”.…
Ministerial taskforce needed on student recruitment, says Pharmacy Schools Council In a joint letter to the government, the Pharmacy Schools Council and other bodies warned that shifts in healthcare proposed in the NHS ten-year plan “will only succeed if education and training evolve in parallel”.…
Sustainable pharmacy practice can lead the way to a healthcare net zero A themed collection of papers featured in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice is aimed at increasing knowledge and awareness of how to decarbonise pharmacy practice.…
Behavioural self-assessment tool can encourage medicines adherence The ‘Social, Psychological, Usage and Rational’ tool measures the medicines non-adherence risk of patients by analysing social, psychological, usage and rational drivers.…
A net-zero health plan starts with pharmacy The NHS ten-year health plan’s sustainability goals will be impossible to achieve unless the potential of pharmacy is realised and prioritised.…
Assisted dying drugs ‘would not be considered medicines when used to facilitate suicide’, Lords told The House of Lords Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Committee was also told that any substances used in assisted dying would undergo “rigorous assessment”.…
The role of pharmacy in delivering the NHS ten-year health plan Attendees at a roundtable hosted by The Pharmaceutical Journal agreed that effective horizon scanning is needed to establish what the pressures on the health service would be in a decade’s time and the need for pharmacy organisations to work together to help shape the future.…
Half of pharmacists say they support assisted dying Exclusive: Results from a survey conducted by The Pharmaceutical Journal have revealed that 54% of pharmacists said they supported assisted dying in principle.…
MHRA sets out plans to speed up access to rare disease therapies The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said “the rulebook for rare disease therapies will be overhauled" to make it quicker and easier to get therapies tested and approved.…
An increased focus on calculation competency as a regulatory requirement has never been more critical A senior lecturer in pharmacy at Kingston University discusses the importance of pharmacy students being able to demonstrate calculations competence before joining the General Pharmaceutical Council prescriber register.…
