Ten years ago, a pharmacist working in an emergency department (ED) would have been a rarity. But, with patients spending more time in EDs, pharmacists are now viewed as an essential part of the…

In November 2024, a coroner in Blackpool gave a stark warning about the risks of prescribing propranolol for anxiety after a young women died from an overdose. In a report on the death of 17-year-old ...

Despite national incentives and locally commissioned services designed to improve availability of palliative care medicines from community pharmacies, access is not evenly distributed across the…

Established in 2023, the Outstanding Pharmacy Early-Career Researcher Award (OPERA) recognises researchers in the early stages of their careers who are making significant contributions to advance…

Two coroners have expressed concerns over shortages of epilepsy and ADHD medication in December 2024, following the death of two patients. In a ‘Prevention of future deaths’ (PFD) report, published…

Salary: Competitive This is an exciting role for a creative and talented journalist, with a scientific background, to join the award-winning team at The Pharmaceutical Journal. The Senior Clinical ...

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Our opinion section in 2024 has showcased strong views, powerful personal stories, in-depth interviews and groundbreaking initiatives from across the pharmacy profession.  The most-read opinion…

Integrated care boards (ICBs) have until 31 January 2025 to implement a “local mitigation plan” to ensure patients can continue accessing their pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) amid supply...

A shortlist of 11 female pharmacy professionals are being celebrated for their intense dedication to improving both the pharmacy profession and patient care in The Pharmaceutical Journal’s 2024 ‘Women...

The British Medical Association (BMA) conference of local medical committees (LMCs), attended by GPs in England, has passed a motion calling for an end to community pharmacy blood pressure checks “wit...

Patients are being signposted to an unregulated website where pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can be purchased with Bitcoin, in draft guidance published jointly by the British Association for Sexual H...

Having a blood sample taken, usually by a phlebotomist in a clinic, is an often unpleasant but necessary step in monitoring medical conditions and some medicines. However, Neil Spooner, bioanalyst and...

Industrial action is firmly back in UK healthcare. We saw a couple of years of industrial action over pay under the tail-end period of the former Conservative government — one of Labour’s first acts i...

“I was down to my last five days’ supply when I posted on social media. I looked into buying some, and could only find the Creon 10,000 capsules, which would mean taking up to 30 capsules per meal,” s...

The British Medical Association’s (BMA) conference of English local medical committees (LMCs) is due to vote on a motion that proposes scrapping community pharmacy blood pressure checks “with immediat...

An estimated 66,730 serious antibiotic-resistant infections were reported in 2023, surpassing pre-pandemic levels of 62,314 infections in 2019, a report published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKH...

During his nine-year tenure as deputy chief pharmaceutical officer for England from 2014 to 2023, Bruce Warner saw two events that had major implications for the supply of medicines to the UK: Brexit ...

Cytisinicline, a prescription-only medicine to support smoking cessation, could be added to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) stop-smoking guideline. NICE has opened a consu...

Weight loss drugs, such as semaglutide, make up a “very small part” of medicines being illegally trafficked into the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said.…

It was 3am. Slam, shudder, heave. This repeated at ten second intervals the whole night and all of the next day. I was in the middle of the Weddell Sea on a small expedition ship en route to the…

Since August 2024, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published two draft guidance papers relating to new monoclonal antibody treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) –…