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More blood pressure services should be commissioned through community pharmacy to support goals set out in the ‘NHS Long-Term Plan’, the Company Chemists’ Association has said.

The regulator is looking at how its fitness-to-practise procedure impacts the mental health of pharmacists who are under scrutiny.

The regulator is looking at how its fitness-to-practice procedure impacts the mental health of pharmacists who are under scrutiny.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has dramatically improved medicines safety through pharmacy-led initiatives to address mistakes in prescribing and improve error reporting.

A previously identified link between antidepressant use and hip fractures needs further examination, the authors of a study published in JAMA Psychiatry have concluded.

A total of 12 pharmacy-led teams from the UK are set to work with their counterparts in 4 African Commonwealth countries in a bid to exchange expertise in antimicrobial resistance stewardship.

The pharmacy profession has “moved on significantly” since the events at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, which led to the deaths of hundreds of patients, new guidance has said.

Most aseptic pharmacy services in England are unable pay for maintenance and servicing due to a poor understanding of the costs involved, an NHS report has said.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is seeking members’ help as it plans the design of a UK-wide Foundation Pharmacist Framework.

A no-deal Brexit could see the UK lose access to an EU-wide online tracker of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, has told The Pharmaceutical Journal.

Monthly dosing of vitamin D3 supplements in older adults does not increase bone mineral density, the results of a recent study show.

Integration of antimicrobial stewardship interventions into GP practices reduces antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections, research from King’s College London has found.

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Fellow Raj Aggarwal has been promoted to the rank of honorary commander in the Royal Navy. He is affiliated to HMS Dragon, based in Cardiff.

A GP IT service provider has said it will change its systems after it was revealed that GPs were able to prescribe “ghost branded generics”, costing the NHS an extra £11.6m per year in reimbursement to community pharmacy.

A GP IT service provider has said it will overhaul its systems after it was revealed that GPs were able to prescribe “ghost branded generics”, costing the NHS an extra £11.6m per year in reimbursement to community pharmacy.

The computer system for the Falsified Medicines Directive crashed on the first weekday morning since after its 9 February 2019 launch.

Tobacco heating products, also known as ‘heat-not-burn’ products, can be as damaging to lung cell functioning as cigarette smoke, a study published in ERJ Open Research has found.

A post-myocardial infarction medicines optimisation clinic, led primarily by a pharmacist with support from a cardiologist, has resulted in improved medicines adherence and guideline concordance, study results published in Open Heart show.

More than 2,000 pharmacists are expected to leave the pharmacy register in 2019, according to forecasts from the General Pharmaceutical Council.

The National Pharmacy Association has told its members to dispense medicines “even if they return an alert from the Falsified Medicines Directive database” in the early stages of its implementation.