Editorial
Clinical assessment may not reflect everyday practiceSubscription
A more clinically oriented registration assessment may disadvantage preregistration trainees in the community, who make up the largest sector.
Treating benefit recipients badly Subscription
Why threatening to cut benefits for those who refuse treatment is unworkable.
Learning article
Gentamicin: dose regimens and monitoring
How to calculate the correct dose of gentamicin and monitor patients to prevent toxicity.
Q&A
Alistair Burt: 'pharmacists are an untapped resource'Subscription
Minister of State for Community and Social Care Alistair Burt, in an exclusive interview with The Pharmaceutical Journal, discusses seven-day healthcare service, pharmacists’ growing role in the NHS and decriminalisation of dispensing errors.
Careers
Manufacturing medicines in the aseptics unitSubscription
Ensuring that medicines are manufactured to the highest quality is a major part of a pharmacy production manager’s role.
News
How do we ensure pharmacists have the skills they need for their expanding role?Subscription
We asked several prominent academics and a student organisation what skills and abilities they thought pharmacists would need in the future and how education and training needed to change to deliver that.
Drug manufacturers delay reporting serious adverse eventsSubscription
Almost one in ten serious and unexpected drug events is not reported to the US Food and Drug Administration within the required timeframe.
NHS England launches investigation into drug company paymentsSubscription
Data suggest that new Alzheimer’s drug solanezumab has disease-modifying propertiesSubscription
First malaria vaccine receives positive scientific opinion from EMASubscription
MHRA review concludes alteplase is safe for treating acute ischaemic strokeSubscription
Glitazone drugs could play a role in prevention of Parkinson’s diseaseSubscription
Call for national scheme for pharmacies to supply emergency medicinesSubscription
More people should be taking statins for primary prevention, US study suggestsSubscription
Hospitals failing to pass on information about patients’ new drugs on dischargeSubscription
Pharmacy sector in England welcomes national flu vaccination serviceSubscription
News in Brief
Lloydspharmacy to buy Sainsbury’s pharmacy business for £125mSubscription
First ADHD treatment recommended through EU centralised authorisation procedureSubscription
First PCSK9 inhibitors approved in Europe and United StatesSubscription
Pre-registration pharmacist June exam pass rate falls to 74%Subscription
Commercial ties may fuel unnecessary osteoporosis treatmentSubscription
Orthostatic hypotension drug midodrine to be launchedSubscription
Proposal to involve NICE in approval process for Cancer Drugs FundSubscription
Research briefing
Rapid uptake of new oral anticoagulants in the United States Subscription
Aromatase inhibitors better than tamoxifen for preventing recurrence of early breast cancer Subscription
New hepatitis C combination treatment effective in HIV coinfected patientsSubscription
Antimalaria drugs could be an effective treatment for Parkinson’s diseaseSubscription
Childhood antibiotic exposure linked with development of juvenile idiopathic arthritisSubscription
Correspondence
Calculation exam could be done at universitySubscription
Pharmacist practitioner-run clinics are a good ideaSubscription
The value of CPD is limitedSubscription
Members alienated from voting in RPS electionsSubscription
