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The UK faces a significant shortage of Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPPs), crucial for training clinical pharmacists and other non-medical prescribers (NMPs). This shortage hinders the develo ...

Our profession’s charity, Pharmacist Support, has just released their 2023 Impact Report which details what people approached the charity with support for, and highlights their achievements in 2023.

The UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board (UKPPLAB) held its second meeting in July. Sir Hugh Taylor’s (the Independent Chair of the Board) post meeting statement provided an insight into ...

We are still buzzing after the recent Clinical Pharmacy Congress in May! Thank you to the amazing speakers, partners and delegates who made the day so interesting and fruitful.    We were delighted to ...

We are delighted to announce that the submission call for abstracts is now open for the Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC) North 2024 Poster Zone! This is your chance to showcase your innovative work in ...

From this week (26 June), pharmacy technicians will legally be able to ‘administer and supply specified medicines to certain groups of patients’. The long-anticipated announcement on the proposed legi ...

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is the largest Trust in Southwest Peninsula (1000 beds). We offer most specialist hospital care e.g., major trauma centre, bone marrow transplants, kidney trans ...

Supported by the Parkinson’s Excellence Network, the Parkinson's Disease Specialist Pharmacy Network (PDSPN), aims to enable pharmacy teams to play an active role in Parkinson’s management across all ...

Exciting news for CPC attendees! CloserStill Media is thrilled to offer a 10% discount on the "Embracing a Workplace Wellbeing Culture" course from our charity partner, Pharmacist Support. Whether you ...

Thank you to those who came and listened to our sessions and engaged with us at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress on Friday 10th May. It was great to be able to showcase our evidence based resources and ...

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress 2024 played host to the CPC Awards again this year, with Matthew Shaw announcing the worthy winners and David Webb presenting the winners with their prizes. 

Antimicrobials are critical in modern medicine, essential for treating infections in humans and animals, supporting surgical procedures, and facilitating cancer therapies. However, the increasing resi ...

Following their 2022 analysis of the health landscape post-Brexit, the latest Nuffield Trust report (published on 18 April 2024) delves deeper into the trends affecting health supply chains, migration ...

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress is delighted to welcome Thomas Bäckstrøm as a speaker this year, to share more about how hospital pharmacy is organised in Norway, and give his thoughts on how this rela ...

Celebrating 183 years of support Pharmacist Support, the profession’s independent charity, celebrated its 183rd anniversary is on 15th April 2024. For almost two centuries, Pharmacist Support has been ...

PrescQIPP provides a wide range of evidence-based tools and resources that pharmacy teams in PCNs and general practice can use to optimise medicines for patients to improve patient outcomes and medici ...

The number of pharmacists working in general practice grew by 24.5% last year, according to NHS Digital primary care workforce data published in February. 

In recent months, reports of medicines shortages seem rarely to have been out of the news, and a recent report by The Guardian highlighted a worrying trend – medicine shortages in the UK have doubled ...

PrescQIPP provide a host of resources to help you optimise medicines, improve medicines safety and patient outcomes at all organisational levels from GP practice to NHS regions with everything in betw ...

We’re pleased to announce our continued partnership with the Clinical Pharmacy Congress. For the fourth year running, the team at CPC has chosen us to be their nominated charity, recognising the impor ...

PrescQIPP provide a host of resources to help practice and PCN pharmacy teams optimise medicines, improve medicines safety and patient outcomes. All the ICBs in England subscribe to PrescQIPP so the r ...

Last week, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society shared the results of its latest workforce wellbeing survey, and the results make for worrying reading.  The headline figure is that 86% of pharmacists are ...

With the Covid-19 pandemic shining a light on how deeply healthcare inequality runs through our society, the impact it has on how people access (or don’t) services, and how it leads to variations in e ...

This article delves into the outlook for UK pharmacy in 2024, highlighting enhanced collaboration with healthcare providers, integration of digital health platforms, and an expanding role in sustainab ...