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Medication safety

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Supporting safer medicines use at home

A new remote medicines administration monitoring service has begun recruiting community pharmacies to help tackle medication non-adherence – and get paid for their interventions. Saša Janković reports

17 Oct 2025

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Viewpoint: Moving towards a better balance

As a new report highlights community pharmacy workforce issues as a major risk to patient safety, ex-deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England Bruce Warner looks at what can be done to turn things around.

07 Apr 2025

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Rethinking co-drug names could prevent errors

Standardised nomenclature for combination formulations could prevent errors, new research suggests.

16 Dec 2024

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Antimicrobial stewardship

This module will consider the role of community pharmacy teams in tackling antimicrobial resistance

26 Nov 2018

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Patient safety in community pharmacy

This CPD module will help pharmacists and their teams recognise the importance of reporting patient safety incidents.

03 Jul 2017

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Falls prevention and osteoporosis

This CPD module looks at pharmacists' role in managing falls prevention and osteoporosis

16 Nov 2016

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Key therapeutic developments of 2015

This CPD module summarises the key therapeutic developments that occurred in 2015.

15 Dec 2015

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Key therapeutic developments in 2014

This CPD module looks at the major clinical developments in pharmacy practice during 2014.

27 Dec 2014

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