UK healthcare

Researchers question value of NHS Health Checks delivered by GPs

NHS health checks may not be any better than usual GP practice care in increasing the prevalence of the diseases they were designed to target.…

HIV: management

Combined antiretroviral therapy is taken by people with HIV infection to prolong and improve quality of life. Patients require a high level of support to help them adhere to the complex regimens prescribed…

Pharmacy commissioning can learn from the GP experience

Pharmacy hasn’t been great at pitching services to the NHS. There are the usual excuses — too little funding or a lack of pharmacy representation on key bodies — but pharmacy could take a lesson from GPs.…

Promoting drug-free sport as a doping control officer

Pharmacist Carole Hunter, a doping control officer at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July 2014, explains her part in trying to rid sport of performance-enhancing drugs.…

Encouraging medicines optimisation

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched a set of briefings describing how you can encourage patients with specific conditions to get the most out of their medicines. Here, you can find articles describing the briefings and everything else The Pharmaceutical Journal has to offer about Medicines…

Appraisal at a senior level

Jonathan Burton tells Jeff Mills how he is sharing his experience of RPS Faculty assessment with his pharmacy employees…

“Hidden factors” behind antibiotics and asthma link

Analysis of a long-term study suggests that the association between antibiotic use in infancy and an increased risk of developing asthma — or exacerbating an existing condition — may not be a simple causal link.…

Clinical research: see it, do it, lead it

Pavitar Gandham and colleagues at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust explain what it is like to be some of the first pharmacists to become NIHR trainee research fellows…

How a pharmacy-led lung cancer awareness campaign met NHS aims

How a “Lung cancer awareness month” campaign demonstrated pharmacy’s crucial live-saving role in detecting the disease…

Contributing to changes in pharmacy education

Jeff Mills finds out about the career of Maria Christou, head of the NHS Pharmacy Education and Development Unit…