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Travel health,

Well through wanderlust

Training Matters explores how pharmacy teams can help customers to have stress-free holidays and feel confident taking on travel health concerns.

06 Jun 2025 , 1 Min Article

Medicines,

MHRA updates guidance on anti-obesity jabs amid safety concerns

The National Pharmacy Association said regulations and guidance must "keep pace” with the huge demand for weight loss medicines.

05 Jun 2025 , 1 Min Article

Asthma & COPD,

MHRA warns of risk of overuse of SABA in asthma

Warning of risk of severe asthma attacks and increased mortality associated with overuse of short-acting SABA in patients with asthma.

29 Apr 2025 , 1 Min Article

Policy,

Awareness of perinatal mental support is lacking, warns inquest into mother’s death

The assistant coroner for North Wales said no healthcare professional referred Leanne Marie Carroll to the service despite her worsening obsessive compulsive disorder.

27 Mar 2025 , 1 Min Article

Medicines,

Updated safety information issued for valproate

Review by two specialists not required for men taking valproate.

20 Feb 2025 , 1 Min Article

Public health,

NPA: GPhC failing to address safety risks of online weight loss drugs supply

The National Pharmacy Association said “tougher regulation” is needed “amid a prediction of a new year’s boom in demand."

27 Jan 2025 , 2 Min Article

Medication safety,

Rethinking co-drug names could prevent errors

Standardised nomenclature for combination formulations could prevent errors, new research suggests.

16 Dec 2024 , 2 Min Article

Medication safety,

Coroner urges pharmacy to review Easter dispensing after overdose death

Elderly woman received excess diazepam and codeine due to Easter bank holiday, says coroner

28 Nov 2024 , 1 Min Article

Medication safety,

Scottish nurse died after buying Mounjaro from online pharmacy

Weight loss injections listed as a contributing factor in Susan McGowan's death.

11 Nov 2024 , 2 Min Article

Pregnancy & baby care,

Pharmacists’ knowledge on managing morning sickness “suboptimal”

Community pharmacists found wanting on antiemetic usage and safety.

04 Nov 2024 , 2 Min Article

Medication safety,

Woman died after taking medicine from husband’s ‘identical’ dosette box

Pharmacy bodies respond to coroner's report on Berkshire woman's death

16 Oct 2024 , 1 Min Article

Prescribing,

New RPS and RCGP Repeat Prescribing Toolkit aims to improve safety and efficiency

A new Repeat Prescribing Toolkit commissioned by NHS England which aims to streamline repeat prescribing systems and reduce medicines waste has been launched by the RPS and RCGP

08 Oct 2024 , 1 Min Article