Practicalities – what worked well in Pharmacy First?
The preparation for Pharmacy First Services was intense and so far, the systems put in place and the relationships nurtured have served the pharmacy well, community pharmacist Reena […]
The preparation for Pharmacy First Services was intense and so far, the systems put in place and the relationships nurtured have served the pharmacy well, community pharmacist Reena […]
Reena Barai is a community pharmacist and owner of the family business, SG Barai Pharmacy in Sutton in Surrey. This year she and her pharmacy team have been […]
Much has been written about deprescribing of medicines with anticholinergic effects to reduce overall anticholinergic burden and it is widely recommended as a way to reduce cognitive impairment, […]
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Pandemic Response and Recovery has called for “a thorough, wide ranging and long overdue investigation into the MHRA”, which has failed […]
A study1` of more than 28,000 medication incident reports found 608 reports of moderate-severe harm or death when using guidelines. Further analysis showed that difficulties in finding and […]
The new Pharmacy First Services in England enable community pharmacists to supply medicines, including antibiotics, for certain conditions without a prescription. The services have been carefully framed to […]
ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting – Highlights Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) caused an estimated five million deaths in 2019 and by 2050 this is likely to rise to 10 million […]
ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting – Highlights In November 2023 The Pharmacy Technician Society (TPTS) was launched under the wing of The American Society for Health System Pharmacists (ASHP). […]
ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting – Highlights Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Executive Vice Dean, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of […]
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a method of creating a 3D object layer-by-layer using computer-created design. It has been used to produce personalised bone grafts and dental implants but […]
A randomised, cross-over study has demonstrated bioequivalence of the 3D printed tablets with one commercial formulation but there are still additional hurdles to overcome before 3D printing of […]
Semi-solid extrusion (SSE) technology for tablets involves printing from a syringe filled with a gel or paste. Healthy volunteers felt that the resulting tablets were no different from […]