The government is expecting to spend around £1m on refrigerated storage for medicine stockpiles in the event of a no-deal Brexit.


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The Palliative Care Formulary is now available on MedicinesComplete, following the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s acquisition of its publisher, PalliativeDrugs.com, in August 2018.


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The UK’s largest online pharmacy dispensed an average of nearly a quarter of a million items every month in 2017/2018 — more than any other distance-selling pharmacy.


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With less than a month until the Falsified Medicines Directive is implemented on 9 February 2019, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has confirmed that if there is a no-deal Brexit it will consider a UK-only version of the EU law.


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“Appropriate funding” and enhanced quality assurance of preregistration providers is necessary for greater integration between academic study and practical preregistration experience for pharmacists in training to be successful, the Pharmacy Schools Council (PhSC) has warned.


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NHS England has said it will fund the doubling of the size of its trial of the HIV prevention drug PrEP to provide an additional 13,000 patients with the drug.


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Single or combination first-line immunotherapy does not significantly extend survival compared with chemotherapy in metastatic non small-cell lung carcinoma, trial results have shown.


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The UK is a world leader in diabetes research, but urgently needs greater investment to translate that innovation into clinical practice.


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Exclusive: A community pharmacy-run minor ailments service exclusively for people who are “socially vulnerable” is being planned for London.


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The community pharmacy-run minor ailments scheme in Scotland has been an overwhelming success, according to independent research which, for the first time, sought the views of patients who use it.


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The first monoclonal antibody therapy for migraine prevention has not been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the grounds that it is not cost effective.


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The 2018 Supreme Court verdict on Pfizer’s second medical use patent for Lyrica has drawn attention to the limitations of the current framework for extending the usefulness of existing treatments.


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Exercise interventions are as effective in reducing systolic blood pressure as many antihypertensive medicines in people with hypertension, according to the results of a network meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.


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NHS England is again considering changes to government regulations around ‘hub and spoke’ dispensing as part of its ten-year plan.


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Exclusive: Salary support funding for NHS preregistration places across England will be cut to 75% from September 2020, Health Education England has announced.


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Plans to alter the management of drugs supply in the case of a no-deal Brexit could make it possible to sanction medicines supply to patients in non-pharmacy locations, the Pharmacists’ Defence Association has warned.


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Most oral preparations of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are associated with a higher risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), a study published in The BMJ has found.


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The General Pharmaceutical Council has opened its consultation on the initial education and training standards for pharmacists.


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Pharmacists working with primary care networks, as set out in the ‘NHS Long-Term Plan’, should keep working from their pharmacy rather than from a GP surgery, the president of the National Association of Primary Care has said.


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People who use e-cigarettes alongside traditional cigarettes are no more likely to quit smoking in the long term than those who only smoke cigarettes, research has shown.


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