Practice & profession

First census of pharmacy technicians: 2. Qualifications, CPD, reasons for joining and plans to change work life

3 Feb 12 | 12.33 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Part two of Liz Seston and Karen Hassell's report findings from the first pharmacy technicians census

First census of pharmacy technicians: 1. Demographics and working patterns

3 Feb 12 | 11.24 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Liz Seston and Karen Hassell report findings from the first pharmacy technicians census

Every little bit helps

3 Feb 12 | 10.49 | England Scotland Wales

What do the new medicine service, the chronic medication service and discharge medication reviews have in common? Bit of a silly question, you may think

Resources developed to help support patients with persistent pain

2 Feb 12 | 18.08 | International

New resources to help pharmacists manage patients with persistent pain have been developed by UCL School of Pharmacy and the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association

PJ letters (4 February 2012) (RPS members only)

2 Feb 12 | 17.03 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

The letters in the attached PDF have been published in the 4 February 2012 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal

Will optimisation help save the NHS?

2 Feb 12 | 12.11 | England Scotland Wales

Better audit trails needed to weed out counterfeits

1 Feb 12 | 17.37 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Systems are needed to allow drugs to be tracked from the manufacturer all the way to the patient, to help in the battle...

The reflective portfolio as a means of assessment within the MPharm course

1 Feb 12 | 15.11 | England

Anne Noott describes how the school of pharmacy at the University of Wolverhampton has been making use of an online reflective portfolio as a means of assessment more >

What it says on the tin

1 Feb 12 | 14.57 | England

What do you expect to see when you open Clinical Pharmacist? What do you look forward to reading most in each issue? We’d be foolish to think you devour every single page of every issue — and so there is usually a variety of topics and styles of content.

How pharmacy education and training is being shaped

1 Feb 12 | 12.27 | England Scotland Wales

Plans are afoot to overhaul pharmacy education and training in England and the Government has recently announced its plan to create a new body Health Education England to oversee the process