To sip or not to sip: the environmental burden of oral nutritional supplements Unnecessary disposal of oral nutritional supplements has many detrimental impacts on the environment — we must re-evaluate their use.…
Top five articles from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s research journals As the year draws to a close, we look back at the most popular pharmacy practice, health services and pharmaceutical sciences research articles of 2025.…
Top ten features of 2025 From the role of pharmacists in emergency departments to anticipating the antibody drugs that AI will create, our most popular features have covered a lot of ground in 2025.…
Medicines shortages picture improving, government says Health minister Zubir Ahmed told the House of Lords Public Services Committee's inquiry into medicines security that shortages observed in the first half of 2025 are much lower compared with the previous year.…
Government to consult on widening access to take-home naloxone ‘before year end’ In December 2024, UK law was amended to make it legal for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to provide take-home naloxone kits without a prescription in an effort to widen access.…
Budget unveils 250 neighbourhood health centres and £300m NHS technology investment In a statement published alongside the budget, the government said more than 100 of the neighbourhood health centres would be open by 2030.…
Sadik Al-Hassan: ‘There’s a lot in pharmacy to be hopeful for’ A few weeks into his appointment as chair of the All‑Party Parliamentary Group on Pharmacy, The Pharmaceutical Journal spoke to Sadik Al-Hassan, a pharmacist and Labour MP, about his hopes and priorities for the future.…
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.…
Promoting public trust in pharmaceutical health systems is ‘critical’ The Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research’s new themed collection highlights the latest research on improving transparency and accountability in pharmaceutical and health systems.…
