Wales

RPS in Wales to focus on palliative and end-of-life care and NHS 111

Palliative and end-of-life care will be a major focus for the Royal Pharmaceutical (RPS) Society in Wales during the next year, Suzanne Scott-Thomas, chair of the Welsh Pharmacy Board has said.…

Pharmacy needs to ‘up its game’, Ridge tells RPS annual conference delegates

Pharmacy must “up its game in terms of quality”, Keith Ridge, the chief pharmaceutical officer (CPO) for England, told delegates at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) 2017 annual conference.…

Call for visa restrictions to be lowered for Indian pharmacy students

A pharmacist who runs a chain of pharmacies in Cardiff has called for visa restrictions to be loosened for science students coming to the UK from India to study, particularly those studying pharmacy or medicine.…

Type 2 diabetes on the rise in children and young people in England and Wales

The number of children and young people with type 2 diabetes being managed in paediatric diabetes units has increased each year for the past three years, according to a national audit.…

What the changes to the apprenticeship levy mean for pharmacy

Changes to the apprenticeship levy in England came into force in April 2017, meaning that regardless of the size of your pharmacy business, the apprenticeship programme should be seen as an opportunity to strengthen your workforce. Vanessa Kingsbury and Nick Marler explain what these changes mean an…

Wales Medicines Safety Conference 2017: bookings now open

Bookings have opened for the 7th Wales Medicines Safety Conference, 29 November 2017, in Pontyclun, organised by RPS Wales…

Pharmacists help to cut the use of antibiotics

The work of pharmacists at a hospital and its health board in Wales has been praised for cutting the use of antibiotics over the past five years.…

Boots apologises following morning after pill row

High street pharmacy chain Boots has released an apology after it was publicly criticised by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service for including a “sexist surcharge” on emergency hormonal contraception.…

Government should take a common sense approach and abolish prescription charges

It is time for England to follow the lead of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and abolish prescription charges.…

RPS and Association of Pharmacy Technicians have ‘shared purpose’

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK “have a shared purpose”, chair of the Welsh Pharmacy Board told delegates at the APTUK 2017 conference in Cardiff on 2 July 2017.…