Class 1 recall issued for quetiapine oral suspension
A national patient safety alert said that pharmacy teams must immediately stop supplying affected products, as well as quarantine and...
Tobacco companies should fund national community pharmacy ‘stop smoking service, says report
Recommendations by AstraZeneca in partnership with several pharmacy bodies have also called for the ‘NHS health check to be offered...
Prescribing error led to death of baby, says coroner
A newborn patient was wrongly prescribed sodium acid phosphate instead of sodium chloride, leading to an overdose, a report from...
Health news round-up: NICE approvals, surveillance data and GLP-1 warnings
A weekly summary of important developments in pharmacy and health news that you may have missed....
PJ view: Access to rare disease treatment should not be a rarity
Policymakers and healthcare leaders must persevere with long overdue changes to improve access to treatments for rare diseases....
NHS prepayment certificates may have saved patients nearly £500m in prescription costs
The NHS Business Services Authority's experimental analysis of data from 2024/2025 also revealed that prescriptions could have cost patients more...