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The number of pharmacists working in general practice grew by 24.5% last year, according to NHS Digital primary care workforce data published in February. 

In recent months, reports of medicines shortages seem rarely to have been out of the news, and a recent report by The Guardian highlighted a worrying trend – medicine shortages in the UK have doubled ...

PrescQIPP provide a host of resources to help you optimise medicines, improve medicines safety and patient outcomes at all organisational levels from GP practice to NHS regions with everything in betw ...

We’re pleased to announce our continued partnership with the Clinical Pharmacy Congress. For the fourth year running, the team at CPC has chosen us to be their nominated charity, recognising the impor ...

PrescQIPP provide a host of resources to help practice and PCN pharmacy teams optimise medicines, improve medicines safety and patient outcomes. All the ICBs in England subscribe to PrescQIPP so the r ...

Last week, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society shared the results of its latest workforce wellbeing survey, and the results make for worrying reading.  The headline figure is that 86% of pharmacists are ...

With the Covid-19 pandemic shining a light on how deeply healthcare inequality runs through our society, the impact it has on how people access (or don’t) services, and how it leads to variations in e ...

This article delves into the outlook for UK pharmacy in 2024, highlighting enhanced collaboration with healthcare providers, integration of digital health platforms, and an expanding role in sustainab ...

The Department of Health and Social Care in the UK is presently conducting an open consultation on pharmacy supervision, scheduled to conclude on 29 February. Proposed changes involve authorising phar ...

PDA member and pharmacist clinical writer, Sandra Hicks attended the virtual NHS Employers Disability Summit 2023 from 29 to 30 November 2023. The annual Disability Summit provided an opportunity for ...

As well as producing evidence based resources, prescribing data  and implementation tools for the NHS, PrescQIPP have also developed award winning innovative products to support NHS organisations in t ...

PrescQIPP is a Community Interest Company that is funded by the NHS for the NHS whose aim is to “do once and share” to reduce duplication and variation across the NHS.   PrescQIPP produce evidence bas ...

Please could you start by telling us a bit about your career and journey so far? I began my career in community pharmacy, Primary Care Trust (PCT) medicines management and pharmacist prescriber in gen ...

The Pharmacy Technicians of Colour’s session at CPC this year has a theme of intersectionality, for those not familiar with the term could you give a brief definition? The term originated in America o ...

The PDA LGBT+ Network has launched a range of resources as part of an ongoing #LGBTplusMPharm campaign to update the curriculum at Schools of Pharmacy where LGBT+ inclusion is lacking. In Autumn 2021, ...

As the largest gathering for the clinical pharmacy profession held in the UK, The Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC) will be returning to ExCeL London next spring, set once again to showcase inventive i ...

The past year has been very successful for the PDA LGBT+ Network. After identifying a lack of LGBT+ inclusive education in the MPharm degree, the network has worked tirelessly to ensure that this chan ...

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported and visited us at this year's Clinical Pharmacy Congress in London last month. We were very proud and happy to talk to our customers about our newly reg ...

That was the question the Pharmacist Support team were asking attendees at this year’s Clinical Pharmacy Congress. The profession’s charity, whose mission is to ‘champion the wellbeing of their pharma ...

Feedback coming in from speakers, exhibitors and delegates has been highly positive – with businesses reporting two extremely successful days of sales and networking. They also noted the special atmos ...

elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) states that “being culturally competent is not only about respecting and appreciating the cultural contexts of patients’ lives. Neither is it a one-size-fits-all ap ...

Some of the PDA’s aims are to support pharmacists in their legal, practice and employment needs, proactively seek to influence the professional, practice and employment agenda to support members. The ...

openEPMA is a fully featured Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Management solution co-designed with the NHS alongside the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH). openEPMA is now in li ...

If you do then read on The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) worked with colleagues in Health Education England, UKHSA and eLearning for Health (eLfH) to develop an eLearning programme on PGDs.  I ...