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Is a lack of protected learning time holding back hospital pharmacists’ career development?

Analysis of exclusive data by The Pharmaceutical Journal has revealed that one in four NHS trusts and health boards does not offer protected time as part of job plans for pharmacists. Are trusts preventing pharmacists from progressing in their careers?…

How Hampshire and Isle of Wight pharmacy teams work together in a system

Non-NHS provision of medicines: what are the issues?

Reflective practice is standard for most healthcare professionals, so why not pharmacists?

Dialling back antibiotic prescribing in children

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Writing competition 2025

Future Pharmacists Writing Competition Winner: Sumayyah Khalid

Preparing MPharm graduates for practice: integrating understanding of community pharmacy, mental health and digital health

Future Pharmacists Writing Competition Second: Hafsah Anwar

Ready for the real world: peer-led pharmacy skills clinics to transform practice readiness

Future Pharmacists Writing Competition Third Place: Salman Diriye

Beyond graduation: closing the readiness gap in UK pharmacist training

Manchester student wins PJ and BPSA writing competition

News from Wales

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More than one-quarter of NHS trusts and boards do not provide protected learning time in job plans for hospital pharmacists

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NICE recommends first immunotherapy for limited-stage small cell lung cancer

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The new royal college is a once in a lifetime reset opportunity

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Why strong pharmacy leadership is essential for the NHS’s next decade

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Assembly meeting: 16 July 2025

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Regulator plans policy overhaul on disqualification powers

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Dale and Appelbe’s Pharmacy and Medicines Law: covering ‘essential ground in the most highly regulated areas of healthcare’

News from Scotland

Pharmacist sitting at a desk studying

More than one-quarter of NHS trusts and boards do not provide protected learning time in job plans for hospital pharmacists

An older man receives immunotherapy via an IV

NICE recommends first immunotherapy for limited-stage small cell lung cancer

Purple background, letter and envelope

The new royal college is a once in a lifetime reset opportunity

People helping people up ladders towards a pharmacy sign

Why strong pharmacy leadership is essential for the NHS’s next decade

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Assembly meeting: 16 July 2025

The stocked shelves inside a pharmacy

Regulator plans policy overhaul on disqualification powers

Portraits of Chris Langley on left, David Reissner on right

Dale and Appelbe’s Pharmacy and Medicines Law: covering ‘essential ground in the most highly regulated areas of healthcare’

Learning & CPD

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Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum

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How to encourage adherence in patients with respiratory disease

Preschooler is having systematic examination, standing on scale for measuring weight and height in doctor's office.

Medication-related considerations in childhood obesity

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Emergency contraception: best practice for pharmacy

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High-risk medications: a guide for pharmacy professionals

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Role of pharmacists in supporting children and young people who self-harm

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Best practice for consultations with patients with additional speech and hearing needs

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Haemato-oncology

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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: diagnosis and management

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BRUKINSA is now reimbursed across the UK for R/R MZL

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How can pharmacists best support patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia?

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Management of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia

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BTK inhibitors: what pharmacists need to know

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