Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists recommends ‘ring-fencing’ diamorphine stock amid supply issues Medicine supply alerts sent in December 2025 and January 2026 have requested that prescribers switch to morphine sulphate 10mg/1mL injections, where possible.…
Health news round-up: winter pressures, weight-loss resolutions and well being for the new year and beyond A weekly summary of important developments in health news that you may have missed and what we can expect going into 2026.…
NICE medicines thresholds: what’s changing and where is the money coming from? An insight into medicines spending and what changes can be expected from new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence cost-effectiveness thresholds.…
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.…
NICE threshold increase must not hit generics market, Lords told In a letter sent to Baroness Morris, pharmacy leaders recommended a review of the role of drug tariff pricing and retained margins to lower the number of medicines supplied to the NHS at a loss.…
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.…
All hospital pharmacists faced critical medicine shortage in 2024, survey finds The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists’ 2025 shortages survey received responses from 859 hospital pharmacists across 36 countries, 21 of whom were based in the UK.…
Vaccine supply overhaul needed to support expanding pharmacy programmes The Pharmacy Vaccinations Development Group recommended that any proposed NHS supply models must take into consideration the impacts of changes to the supply chains of well-established private vaccination services.…
Two forms of modified-release propranolol out of stock until 2026 Alerts issued by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Scottish government recommend that clinicians should consider a switch to immediate-release tablets.…
How safe are GLP-1s? As the use of weight-loss drugs continues to increase, there has been a rise in documented side effects. But what are the serious and unwanted effects of these drugs, and is Yellow Card reporting capturing enough information?…
