Dawn Connelly
Dawn Connelly is an award-winning features editor at the Pharmaceutical Journal. She has worked in both hospital and community pharmacy and has over 10 years of experience in pharmacy journalism. In 2015, Dawn took the Data Journalism prize for an impressive info-graphic charting The Ebola virus outbreak.
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Recent stories
Appointment availability is behind huge number of missed measles vaccinations, PHE expert says
A senior epidemiologist at Public Health England has said that concerns about vaccinations are unlikely to be behind figures from international children’s charity UNICEF, which show that half a million children in the UK have not received their first vaccination against measles.
Independents: services central to the futureSubscription
Independent community pharmacies are focusing on services as a way of surviving the financial turmoil.
Joint pain: pathology and treatment
An overview of joint pain for community pharmacy teams.
Medication errors: where do they happen?Subscription
Large multiples: feeling the financial squeezeSubscription
Measuring the marketSubscription
A quick guide to medical cannabisSubscription
Pharmacy contracts: where the money goesSubscription
Statins: the highs and the lowsSubscription
Recent blog posts
Top ten features in The Pharmaceutical Journal in 2018
Features can be timeless articles on an aspect of drug development, pharmacy practice or medicines optimisation, or topical pieces that delve further into news stories to give context and analysis. It has been an interesting year in pharmacy, from the rescheduling of cannabis to the patent expiry of the NHS’s most costly drug, and the magazine’s features section reflects this, and much more.
Top five infographics in The Pharmaceutical Journal in 2018
With the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) due to come into force in February 2019 (with the caveat of a Brexit deal, of course), it’s no surprise that our infographic explaining how FMD will work was the most read of those published in 2018. Other topics that made it to the top five include medical cannabis and our salary and satisfaction survey.
Top five infographics in The Pharmaceutical Journal in 2017
A summary of the top five infographics published in The Pharmaceutical Journal in 2017, as well as an infographic on aspirin published in 2014, which continues to draw readers.
