This site is intended for UK Healthcare Professionals only

Opinion

Hear the opinions and comment from some of the top names in pharmacy. Make sure you get in touch and share your opinions with us too.
female customer pharmacy summary.jpg

NPA view: Pharmacists can help tackle women's health inequalities

Too often, pharmacists are not empowered to provide complete care, writes Helga Mangion

11 Aug 2022

exam hall summary.jpg

GPhC exam: What a way to treat our trainee pharmacists

It's time for an independent review into the GPhC's handling of the assessment, says PM's deputy editor

15 Jul 2022

take one capsule summary.jpg

Insight: Prescribing now and in the future

Patients are presenting at pharmacies with complex problems, says our writer

15 Jul 2022

Fuller Stocktake.jpg

Fuller shows us the way forward

When the Fuller Stocktake exercise started, the NPA hosted a roundtable meeting that enabled the inquiry to gather vital insights about community pharmacy, says local integration lead Michael Lennox.

20 Jun 2022

pharmacy sig summary.jpg

Insight: Why no community pharmacists on the leadership panel?

The makeup of the leadership commission panel looks like a stitch-up, our columnist writes.

17 Jun 2022

david webb summary.jpg

Webb lays out priorities for clinical pharmacy era in speech

Chief pharmacist David Webb's full speech on his vision for pharmacy.

20 May 2022

pharmacist prescription summary.jpg

Insight: I’m now a convert to independent prescribing

Once a prescribing sceptic, our columnist is now a convert – but still wonders what shape it will take in England.

19 May 2022

RT summary.jpg

Pharmacy gripped by election fever?

RPS elections cause barely a ripple, while RSG proposals will disappoint some, writes Richard Thomas.

19 May 2022

DNA summary.jpg

Pharmacy must be alert to new technologies

We all need to be alert to developments in pharmacogenomics, says the NPA.

05 May 2022

online AGM_summary.jpg

Opinion: RPS fails to convince over royal college stance

Next month's Society AGM, which will again be held online, could be a lively affair.

27 Apr 2022

money summary.jpg

Insight: Giving staff a decent pay rise will hit us hard

The cost of living crisis is hitting pharmacy team members, a contractor writes.

22 Apr 2022

medicine pack summary.jpg

Viewpoint: Have your say on hub and spoke

Do the Government's assumptions on hub & spoke dispensing stack up?

22 Apr 2022

arrows, pointing.jpg

Blog: Still time for the RPS to listen to members and change course

To see the Society slip into the self-induced chaos of recent months is frustrating and sad in equal measure, says a former president. It should stop swimming against the tide.

11 Apr 2022

ridgey summary.jpg

Wanted: An enduring and confident professional leadership body

Former CPhO Keith Ridge explains why he believes Royal College status matters.

01 Apr 2022

giant leap_summary.jpg

Can pharmacy make the giant leap forward?

Community pharmacy could be directing healthcare that is fit for the future but the sector needs to step up.

28 Mar 2022

andrew lane_summary.jpg

We all need to speak up: people are listening

Community pharmacy has a vital role to play in ICSs – but we need to be pointing that out.

28 Mar 2022

Change privacy settings