RPS

RPS calls for NHS-funded mental health support for all pharmacists

The RPS calls on the government to ensure all pharmacists have access to NHS-funded mental health support services.

Pharmacists have been granted powers to dispense an “alternative strength or pharmaceutical form” of fluoxetine.

The NAWP – which had announced plans to dissolve – is to continue as part of the PDA from the beginning of next year.

Labour's plans would bring England in line with Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Community pharmacies are more likely to fail a GPhC inspection but also account for all pharmacies rated excellent.

The GPhC said this would improve transparency and “drive improvement in pharmacy services.”

The early career report was commissioned by the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and Health Education England.

Social deprivation and lack of access to information are potential factors in prescription drug dependence.

The RPS, BMA and RCGP have called for the greater use of community pharmacists across primary care networks.

The government must take a long-term approach to the recruitment and training of pharmacists, the RPS tells Sajid Javid.

The first details have been released about the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.

In a letter to Boris Johnson, health bodies said they were “unable to reassure patients" that Brexit wouldn't affect them.

The RPS has launched the initiative to allow it to “better represent our membership and pharmacists everywhere".

A leaked Government dossier suggests that medicines would be “vulnerable to severe extended delays”.

Following several weeks of speculation, the Bury St Edmunds MP has been confirmed as the new pharmacy minister.

A source close to the RPS has raised questions over how £300k the Society received from HEE was spent.

Community pharmacy's unprecedented five-year funding deal has been met with a range of responses.

Sandra Gidley was elected president at today’s (Tuesday July 16) meeting of the RPS assembly.

David Reissner says it is “by no means clear” the RPS is a public body as Sid Dajani presses for a judicial review.

Pharmacists in all settings should be integrated into services aimed at preventing and managing type 2 diabetes.