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Strep A death: Practice pharmacist 'not given feedback' on using records system

Coroner concerned that surgery did not have clear triage and referral pathways

11 Apr 2025

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Prescribing pathfinder update: Showing the path ahead

The prescribing pathfinders, set up to test and support different models of delivery from community pharmacies, are starting to go live across England. Saša Janković reports.

27 Mar 2025

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Scotland the Brave: Leading pharmacy’s prescribing revolution – part 2

In the second of two articles, Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas talks to two young Glasgow community pharmacists about their prescribing experiences. He also finds out what’s next for pharmacist prescribing in Scotland from a policy and funding perspective.

03 Mar 2025

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Scotland the Brave: Leading pharmacy’s prescribing revolution – part 1

Independent prescribing could be a game-changer for community pharmacy but what does it look like in reality? In the first of two articles, Pharmacy Magazine editor Richard Thomas travelled to Glasgow to see for himself.

26 Feb 2025

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Practice update: Improving repeat prescribing

A RCGP-RPS Repeat Prescribing Toolkit, launched last year, offers an opportunity to enhance professional practice, collaborate more effectively and contribute to improved patient outcomes.

19 Feb 2025

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GPhC bans standalone use of web questionnaires for weight loss drugs

GPhC unveils beefed-up rules for supply of ‘high risk’ and weight loss medication by online pharmacies.

04 Feb 2025

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Prescribing: Time to get serious

A paper on the expansion of pharmacist prescribing from Bruce Warner and colleagues from the University of Nottingham is both timely and important, says Keith Ridge, former England CPhO.

27 Jan 2025

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New RPS and RCGP Repeat Prescribing Toolkit aims to improve safety and efficiency

A new Repeat Prescribing Toolkit commissioned by NHS England which aims to streamline repeat prescribing systems and reduce medicines waste has been launched by the RPS and RCGP

08 Oct 2024

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Use effective contraception, MHRA tells male valproate patients

MHRA issues new precautionary advice in wake of Scandinavian study

05 Sep 2024

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NHSE announces key step in IP pathfinder pilot as EPS rolls out

The 210 pathfinder pharmacies can 'start delivering clinical services' once EPS is rolled out, says NHSE.

29 Aug 2024

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Polypharmacy rates lower in UK than rest of Europe

Rates of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing are lower in the UK than in many European countries, a new analysis has revealed.

29 Jul 2024

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DiCE responds to PDA concerns over online prescribing guidance

“The providers interacting in the DiCE Forum would strongly refute that their service was unprofessional or solely commercially driven."

14 May 2024

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GP pharmacist recruitment linked with ‘better medicines prescribing’

However, higher recruitment of additional roles to surgeries may hurt patient satisfaction

30 Aug 2022

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Diabetes prescriptions on the rise in England, latest figures reveal

Data shows 60.3 million items were prescribed in 2021-22 compared with 57.9 million in 2020-21

11 Aug 2022

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Nine in 10 people want pharmacists to write prescriptions

Strong public backing for the profession's trajectory in Scotland, an RPS survey finds.

09 Mar 2022

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'Slender majority' backs change to prescriber training rules

Fifty-five per cent of respondents to a GPhC consultation backed scrapping the two-year rule.

08 Mar 2022

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