Urgent and emergency care

Embrace opportunities under five-year NHS plan, pharmacists urged

Pharmacy organisations have identified opportunities to integrate more with other services and have a real impact on improving patient care within the five-year NHS plan.…

Urgent care campaign to call for greater pharmacist role

A campaign to promote greater use of pharmacists to relieve mounting pressures on urgent and emergency NHS services has been launched.…

Hong Kong pharmacists call for police to stop using tear gas against protesters

Pharmacists and pharmacy students are working in first aid stations, while community pharmacists are supplying emergency medicines, including bronchodilators, analgesics and saline solutions for washing wounds to treat those affected by the use of chemicals.…

Drones to deliver drugs to remote German pharmacy

An unmanned ‘parcelcopter’ will deliver drugs and other urgent supplies to a remote island in the North Sea, a few miles off the coast of Germany.…

UK pharmacists asked to volunteer in Ebola outbreak

UK pharmacists have been urged to volunteer in the fight against Ebola in West Africa in an open letter from four of the most senior figures in UK healthcare. …

Expensive night out

Charging a fee for being drunk in A&E would do little to improve people’s attitudes to alcohol.…

Managing hyperkalaemic patients

Hyperkalaemia is a potentially life-threatening condition in which drug therapy is often implicated. Patients suffering from the condition will need their medicines reviewed as part of their treatment.…