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NHS takes blood pressure screenings to barbershops in battle against strokes, heart attacks
Men can now have their blood pressure checked while visiting a barbershop. The NHS is extending its blood pressure screening services to different local...
‘One year on, no medicine has entered NHSE’s Innovative Medicines Fund’
The NHS England(NHSE) Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF) should be efficiently utilised to expedite patient access to potentially valuable new medications, thereby incentivising the pharmaceutical...
RPS proposes 14 recommendations to mitigate drug-related harms, fatalities
Advocating close collaboration with the Scottish government, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has recently issued a policy statement outlining 14 recommendations to maintain the ongoing...
Pharmacist Amit Dhand’s crime novels to be adapted into BBC series
British Asian pharmacist Amit Dhand's crime novels are to be transformed into a six-part television series titled 'Virdee' by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Based...
Letby case sparks PDA’s call for regulating non-registered healthcare managers including in pharmacy practice
The life imprisonment sentence given to Nurse Lucy Letby, following her conviction for causing the deaths of seven newborns and attempting six more murders,...
‘Wegovy could be key to curing heart failure’
Novo Nordisk said its hugely popular drug Wegovy was shown to substantially ease heart failure in obese people, as the Danish drugmaker seeks to...