Pharmacy regulator canvasses pre-registration tutors Pre-registration tutors are being asked by the General Pharmaceutical Council what they need to be better supported in their job.…
Support for Bill to allow terminal cancer patients access to drugs in development A private members Bill that seeks to allow doctors to prescribe investigational drugs to terminally ill cancer patients has won government backing.…
Public call for Roche to cut price of breast cancer drug An online petition calls on the drug company Roche to lower the price of its breast cancer drug Kadcyla to make it cheap enough to be made available on the NHS.…
Pharmacy is striding forwards Sandra Gidley reports on the discussions she led at the Liberal Democrats Party Conference.…
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.…
Involve the public in service design Before embarking on the development of new services, pharmacists should be asking patients and the public for their input.…
Flying the flag for pharmacy Aileen Bryson, policy and practice lead for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Scotland, highlighted the services provided by pharmacists at the Labour Party Conference…
European Medicines Agency reduces clinical trial secrecy The EMA has made a landmark policy move that will see it publish the clinical trial reports underpinning a medicine’s licence.…
How do the Conservatives view pharmacy? Sibby Buckle shares her thoughts from the Conservative Party conference…
All NHS patients will be assigned an ‘accountable GP’ under 2015 contract All patients in England will have a named GP responsible for co-ordinating their care under changes to the national contract announced on 30 September 2014.…