RPS joins health alliance on climate change The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change calls for all health services to become net zero as soon as possible and before 2040.…
Addressing drug–microbiome interactions: the role of healthcare professionals As research continually highlights the importance of drug–microbiome relationships, healthcare professionals in all settings may soon be called upon to incorporate microbiome profiling in their work.…
More than 15,000 falsified medicines found in UK supply chain over past two years Exclusive: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has identified 15,000 falsified medicine packs since the UK left the European Union in January 2020.…
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.…
Government misses consultation deadline for post-Brexit scheme to detect fake medicines The UK government aimed to issue a public consultation on a national falsified medicine scheme within 12 months of enacting the Medicines and Medical Devices Act on 11 February 2021.…
‘Harmful’ levels of pharmaceuticals found in quarter of samples taken from world’s rivers Unsafe concentrations of at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient were found at a quarter of 1,052 sampling sites across hundreds of rivers.…
How to become a final medical signatory in the pharmaceutical industry What is a final medical signatory, and how do you go about becoming one? This article explains the role and the skills and experience it requires.…
