What are Wasted Medicines? Wasted medicines are unused medicines which have been prescribed for named patients and are not required. Medicine waste can occur due to patients over-ordering medicines on...
Clinical community pharmacists; the way forward? In late November I was invited by the University of Manchester Pharmacy Society (MUPS) to deliver a talk to mixed years pharmacy undergraduates about m...
What is FMD The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is a series of European anti-counterfeiting measures that will see pharmacists scan medicine products to verify their authenticity before decommiss...
GDPR and community pharmacy What is GDPR? On the 25th Of May 2018, the new European privacy regulation called The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect. This act will be repl...
What is Diabetes?Diabetes is a problem with the body that causes blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal. This is also called hyperglycemia.In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does ...
This Self-Care week, why not ask your local pharmacist about your health queries Self-care is about keeping fit and healthy, understanding when you can look after yourself, when a pharmacist can help ...
Patients are still failing to use community pharmacy as their first point of call… New research from the PAGB shows that people are still visiting a doctor instead of a pharmacist for self-treat...
Electronic Prescription Service saves NHS £130 million over three years The transformative electronic prescription service (EPS) has managed to save the NHS £130 million over three years. By al...
How the cuts are affecting me: ‘The future looks bleak for community pharmacy’- The Pharmacist Part of The Pharmacist’s series of case studies on how the funding cuts are affecting ordinary pharmacist...
Medicines optimisation schemes are dragging prescribing ethics into the gutter and GPs should play no part in them, says Dr Patrick James McNallyUnder our CCG’s ‘Medicine Optimisation Benefit Share...