Pharmacy practice and profession blog
Six ways to survive working as an on-call pharmacist
Top tips for keeping your cool while working on call.
Adoption of closed loop medicines administration into the NHS
Samrina Bhatti describes how closed loop medicines administration can reduce medication error rates.
Data-driven care: why pharmacy needs to get involved
Access to data will transform the NHS — it’s time pharmacists got to grips with clinical informatics, says Andrew Davies.
Increasing attendance at post foundation pharmacist training sessions
Mike Hodgins and Frances Clymer describe how they overcame poor attendance at Sheffield Teach Hospitals pharmacy teaching sessions.
How our remote prescribing service has improved care
We can transform care by embracing portfolio working and remote technologies, says Ade Williams.
My role as an ambassador for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Newly registered pharmacist Fatema Mamdani describes why she applied to become a representative for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Pharmacists: we can support people with alcohol issues
Brief interventions by community pharmacists — which require little time and no specialist training — can make a big difference to people with alcohol addiction, says Addaction pharmacy director Roz Gittins.
The Darzi experience
Liz Butterfield, clinical lead for medicines optimisation at Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network, writes about her experience of sponsoring a Darzi Fellowship Project.
Changing perceptions: how Canada's deprescribing network is tackling polypharmacy
As England prepares to launch its own deprescribing network, the director of a similar scheme in Canada explains what they have done over the past four years.
Why the newly appointed GPhC board left me with more questions than answers
Elsy Gomez Campos questions the lack of black representation on the GPhC board.
After the ballot result: what’s next for Boots and the PDAU
Now the Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union has won recognition for its representation, pharmacists employed by Boots can expect greater independence and support at work, says PDAU national officer Paul Day
Why community pharmacists should undertake the Mary Seacole Programme
Ade Williams describes his experience of completing the Mary Seacole Programme
The BBC has got it wrong: we are not 'GP substitutes'
Pharmacists in general practice provide invaluable expertise and do not exist just to ‘relieve pressure’ on GPs, says clinical pharmacist Tom Gregory.
Ensuring value-based outcomes through medicines optimisation
Shazia Karsan describes the value pharmacists bring to integrated community networks in Croydon.
Back to the drawing board: why pharmacists should embrace creativity in patient interactions
When almost half of patients are unable to understand health information, pharmacists should employ a creative and humanistic approach to discussing medicines with patients, says mental health pharmacist Nana Tomova.
What we do as CPhO clinical fellows
Katherine Le Bosquet, Louisa Conlon and Adele Mott give an insight into their work as chief pharmaceutical officer fellows.
Treating complex patients in their own homes is possible — we already do it
Improving patient care and making cost savings, the pharmacy homecare team provides much more than just a medicines delivery service, says advanced specialist pharmacist Rabiya Mansoor.
We are already rethinking our training plans because of short-sighted cuts to preregistration funding
With nonsensical changes to preregistration pharmacist funding, we will struggle to train enough pharmacists to fill expanded roles of today, let alone of the future.
Pioneering an independent medicines optimisation clinic in community, in India
Pharmacist Mansi Shah has developed the first independent community medicines optimisation service in India, but it has not been without its challenges.
