Hospitals should prescribe time-critical medicines within 24 hours of emergency admission
NHS England standards also state that support services, including pharmacy, should be available daily for acute receiving areas during extended-day...
Boots launches lung cancer early awareness scheme
Signs will be placed around over-the-counter cold and flu management products advising patients to speak to a Macmillan-trained pharmacist if...
Coroner raises concern over access to patient records for pharmacists in Wales
A patient died after taking one drug for a chest infection and another for high cholesterol, which were contraindicated....
The dark side of the ‘miracle jab: why eating disorder safety cannot be an afterthought
As the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists increases, so must our awareness of patients who have an eating disorder...
Nearly 400 ‘dormant’ medicines targeted to be revived by government, industry and NHS scheme
Medicines UK said that the collaborative project would focus on 'dormant' medicines that represent a serious risk to supply resilience...
Patient died from infection associated with non-sterile alcohol-free wipes
The UK Health Security Agency and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have warned that anyone with non-sterile alcohol-free...