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On 15 April 2026, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society became the Royal College of Pharmacy and — as Karen Baxter, the organisation's interim ch...

In this episode of Pharmacy Inside Jobs, Alex Clabburn, senior editor — research and learning, talks to Shane Kailla, a principal pharmacist...

In this episode of Pharmacy Inside Jobs, senior features editor Siobhan Chan talks to Li Shean Toh. Toh is an astropharmacist, who is curren...

This episode of The PJ Pod looks at the importance of speaking up whenever you have a safety or wellbeing concern, and how exactly to go abo...

The PJ Pod’s final episode of the year looks ahead to our editorial team’s predictions for pharmacy in 2026. What big changes are coming for...

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In this episode of The PJ Pod, we explore the main changes and implications for practice of the National Institute for Health and Care Excel...

In this episode of Pharmacy Inside Jobs, senior features editor Dawn Connelly talks to Sanjay Gudimetla. Gudimetla has worked within the pha...

From rising stress to expanding clinical roles, pharmacists are facing mounting pressures. Chronic understaffing combined with increased dem...

In this episode of The PJ Pod, we look at the benefits of effective patient engagement and speak to the OPERA 2025 shortlist and joint winne...

Our new PJ Pod series — Pharmacy Inside Jobs — has been developed to inspire you to take the next step in your career. Whether you are a pha...

Our new PJ Pod series — Pharmacy Inside Jobs — is aimed to inspire you to take the next step in your career. Whether you are a pharmacy stud...

On the 27th of November 2024, the British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Scottish Inte...

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s third analysis of MPharm awarding gap data has revealed that the percentage point difference between the propor...

Disagreement and conflict are unavoidable realities common to all working environments, but for pharmacists and pharmacy teams faced with po...

Despite national incentives and locally commissioned services designed to improve availability of palliative care medicines from community p...

As has become tradition, The PJ Pod’s final episode of the year looks back over some of the most significant stories in pharmacy in the past...

In September 2024, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) put forward proposals to take on royal college status, pending a vote of the membe...

High levels of patient safety incidents related to time-critical medicines (TCMs) — medicines that need to be given or taken at a specific t...

Green social prescribing, which can include activities such as community gardening, mindful walks and conservation volunteering — as well as...

Over the last decade, the development of targeted therapies has significantly changed the way that chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is tr...

In this learning episode, we look at the latest developments in migraine treatment where new classes of drugs are starting to provide additi...

Drones are already being used to transport medicines in several countries around the world, including the United States, Australia, Switzerl...

In this episode of The PJ Pod, we look at how pharmacists can become more involved in research, by hearing directly from those who have done...

The ‘NHS mental health implementation plan 2019/20–2023/24’, published by NHS England in July 2019, identified a need for “new and integrate...

Please note that this episode includes discussions of war and injury that may be distressing to some listeners, with stories from pharmacist...

As we reach the end of 2023, this final podcast episode of the year continues our annual tradition of looking back at the biggest stories to...

From 2026, all pharmacists will be independent prescribers when they first qualify. But that leaves a whole cohort of non-prescribing pharma...

In November 2023, an investigation by The Pharmaceutical Journal revealed that two-thirds of patient safety incidents related to homecare me...

The term 'deprescribing' refers to the tapering, stopping, discontinuing, or withdrawing of medications for the benefit of patients. It was...

Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors are used to treat cancers caused by defective B cells, such as chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, B-cell...

In June 2023, The Pharmaceutical Journal revealed that the number of adults in England prescribed medicines for attention deficit hyperactiv...

Medicines play a critical role in ensuring that people at the end of their lives, and their carers, can manage symptoms, including pain, and...

The UK government has said it will introduce a ‘Pharmacy First’ service for England by the end of 2023, as part of a plan for recovering acc...

***Warning: this episode contains some potentially upsetting content about suicidal thoughts and miscarriage. If you would like to skip this...

So-called ‘skinny jabs’ have been heralded as game-changers for weight management. Wegovy (semaglutide) is due to be launched in the UK immi...

TV personality Davina McCall has been at the forefront of a much-needed sea change in the awareness of menopause symptoms, leading to many m...

In this second Spotlight episode, we talk through an investigation that has shown the awarding gap between white pharmacy graduates and thei...

In this learning episode, we have enlisted the help of two experts to explore what it takes to deliver effective deprescribing and ask what...

In the UK, three babies are still being born each month after being exposed to sodium valproate. This is despite the risk of foetal valproat...

The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly exposed how inequalities in health can be affected by factors such as ethnicity, gender or geography — and...

Will pharmacists go on strike over pay? Will medicines shortages improve? What will be the biggest clinical developments next year? The team...

Two years since the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) took on responsibility for approving consultant pharmacist posts, we look at how thes...

Anticholinergic drug use is on the rise due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the UK medicines regulator is also considering extending access to...

In this episode, Caitlin Killen, assistant clinical editor, and Alex Clabburn, senior editor, enlist the help of two experts to explore what...

In this episode, assistant clinical editor Caitlin Killen, looks at the practical implications of a recent update to NICE guidance on diabet...

What if you could pop into your local pharmacy to get tested for how your genes affect the way you metabolise drugs, such as statins or anti...

Which combination is most effective? Should I take this with food? The public often ask for advice on how to treat acute pain conditions, su...

In this episode, Carolyn Wickware, investigations editor, looks at the emerging evidence that UK rivers are becoming a dangerous ‘breeding g...

There have been claims that COVID-19 oral antivirals, such as molnupiravir and Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir + ritonavir), will “change the course...