LloydsPharmacy reports 11 percentage point increase in gender pay gap for 2021/2022 The median hourly pay gap at LloydsPharmacy was found to be 14.7% in favour of men, with women's mean hourly pay 32.1% lower than men's.…
MPs vote in favour of continued online provision of medical abortion drugs Temporary measures to allow women to have early-stage abortions at home following a video consultation during the COVID-19 pandemic will now be made permanent.…
Controlled drugs prescribing and management in hospital is lagging behind — it must go fully digital A combination of outdated guidance and misconceptions about the law mean secondary care is missing a golden opportunity to reduce bureaucracy and improve patient safety.…
RPS calls for complete ban on online diet drug The RPS believes that 2,4-Dinitrophenol should not be supplied under any circumstances.…
It is time to act on the inequalities in treatment for substance misuse among LGBTQ+ people Pharmacy staff are well placed to improve the healthcare experience for people in the LGBTQ+ community, a group that is often more susceptible to substance misuse.…
Tase Oputu and Lola Dabiri: ‘We are the first, but we don’t want to be the last’ We talk to the only black pharmacists currently on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Boards about how, and why, pharmacy must change.…
Why I have changed my approach to see the patient, not the disease Komal Vadday, senior specialist pharmacist in hepatology, highlights the importance of treating each patient as an individual and not defining them by their diagnosis.…
More than a third of NHS trusts have no ethnic minority pharmacists at senior levels Exclusive: Of 87 NHS trusts and health boards across Great Britain that provided latest data, 34.5% do not employ pharmacists from ethnic minority backgrounds at NHS 'Agenda for change' band 8b or above.…
PJ view: Greater openness needed to melt the snowy white peaks of pharmacy The results of our investigation into the ethnic diversity across NHS pharmacy management have barely scratched the surface.…
A glimpse of pharmacy’s snowy white peaks Nearly a decade after Roger Kline’s damning verdict on diversity across London NHS trusts, recent data obtained and analysed by The Pharmaceutical Journal highlight a lack of diversity across management pharmacist posts in Great Britain.…