UK healthcare

Pharmacogenomic testing in community pharmacies to be considered as part of UK-wide review

A review of how pharmacogenomics can reduce harmful prescribing is due to be completed by 2025.…

How pharmacists can be integral to patient care on a ‘virtual ward’

Virtual wards allow patients to remain at home but still receive the same treatment from a multidisciplinary team, including administration and monitoring of medicines.…

Government to cap distribution of lateral flow tests ahead of ending free provision

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee is in discussions with the government over the future of the lateral flow test distribution service.…

Six-fold increase in registration applications from overseas pharmacists

Exclusive: Data from the General Pharmaceutical Council show that there were 353 applications for the Overseas Pharmacists Assessment Programme between 4 March 2021 and 17 October 2021.…

Everything you need to know about the debate over supervision

The supervision debate has been an ongoing point of contention for several years, but what exactly is the debate about and why is it so controversial?…

Regulators approve Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for use in the UK

The mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna is the third COVID-19 vaccine to be authorised for supply in the UK.…

Review finds limited evidence of problematic polypharmacy in the UK

Evidence of the extent of problematic pharmacy in the UK, and the interventions needed to address it, is limited, according to a rapid review published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.…

Pharmacy staff who have died during COVID-19 pandemic to be remembered during minute’s silence

Pharmacy staff who are thought to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic are to be among the healthcare workers remembered with a minute’s silence on 28 April 2020.…

Most deprived areas in the UK bear the brunt of public health cuts, finds report

Cuts to public health budgets have been six times larger in the UK’s most deprived areas compared with cuts made in the country’s least deprived areas, a report has found.…

The precision medicine approach to cancer therapy: part 1 — solid tumours

An overview of the anticancer agents that have been approved for use in the UK as part of a precision medicine approach for solid tumours, along with information relating to the relevant biomarkers and biomarker assays currently available.…