Workforce
In April 2025, The Pharmaceutical Journal launched a dedicated campaign aimed at championing solutions for the pharmacy workforce crisis.
Since then — through our news coverage, investigations and learning content — we have explored the challenges, championed innovative solutions and advocated for policy changes and the investment needed to fill workforce gaps and improve wellbeing, to create a more robust, resilient and rewarding profession for the future.
We invite all pharmacy professionals in every capacity — frontline staff, employers, educators, policymakers and patients — to join us in this vital effort. If you would like to submit an article for this collection, please email editor@pharmaceutical-journal.com.
Read more and view the curated and latest content below.
News
Revised staffing standards for neonatal services published
Working conditions for community pharmacists must improve for neighbourhood health service to succeed, MPs say
Almost 500 advanced pharmacist practitioners now in general practice
Health news round-up: winter pressures, weight-loss resolutions and well being for the new year and beyond
PDA Union to represent Superdrug pharmacists
Pharmacy must be ‘embedded’ in the creation of neighbourhood health teams, MPs told
Challenges
Spotlight: Pressures facing pharmacists in 2025
Are staff shortages compromising safe pharmacy care?
Could dedicated pharmacists help improve neonatal care’s medicines safety problem?
Is a lack of protected learning time holding back hospital pharmacists’ career development?
Lost days: the unstemmed rise in mental health-related absences
Opinion
The journey towards dedicated pharmacy support for all emergency departments
It is an exciting time to be a respiratory pharmacist — and we need more of them
Reviewing our clinical services and implementing job planning to get the best out of our pharmacy team
PJ view: We cannot expect pharmacists to develop their skills on goodwill alone
Phasing in multi-sector placements offers another chance to review foundation training
Prescribing
How we are helping to address the DPP shortage
Educational supervision is needed to support community pharmacists as independent prescribers
Prescribing pharmacists are delivering beyond their pay grade
How prescribing pharmacists can make an impact in the emergency department
How to be an effective designated prescribing practitioner
Education and training
Redefining the pharmacist of the future
Transforming undergraduate placements to support the initial education and training of pharmacists
Using entrustable professional activities to build the future pharmacist
Phasing in multi-sector placements offers another chance to review foundation training
How an MPharm placement in social care is preparing students for real-world roles
Creating effective assessment activities for foundation trainees
