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May 2025, Vol 314, No 7997

Table of contents

Top news stories

Announcements & Tributes

Top news stories

An elderly person lays in a hospital bed

House of Commons passes amendment allowing pharmacists to opt out of assisted dying process

2RY39H3 A view of a drugs consumption room, which allows users take heroin under medical supervision, at the NHS Enhanced Drug Treatment Facility at Hunter Street Health Centre in Glasgow. The UK's first safe drug consumption room was approved on Wednesday by the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board (IJB), which is made up of NHS and council officials. A £2.3 million consumption room is now planned for Hunter Street in the east end of the city. Picture date: Thursday September 28, 2023.

UK’s first safer drug consumption facility accessed more than 2,500 times in first four months, data show

Pharmacy cross sign outside a community pharmacy

Hub-and-spoke dispensing expansion set to begin in October 2025

Features

A diagram of the components of a naloxone take-home kit

Take-home naloxone: could community pharmacies be the answer to tackling drug deaths?

Funding gap: economic analysis paints dire picture of community pharmacy’s sustainability

Illustration of a recycling symbol with a zero in the middle, surrounded by floating inhalers and pills

Net zero: progress on reducing the environmental impact of medicines

Opinion

Empty unlet pharmacy shop unit in Salisbury Street, Blandford Forum town centre, a traditional market town in North Dorset, south-west England

PJ view: Community pharmacies need investment to reduce health inequalities

Andy Cowper, editor of Health Policy Insight

What difference will hub-and-spoke dispensing actually make?

Illustration of silhouettes of women's heads with scribbles and ideas on top

Why I joined the Female Pharmacy Leaders Network

Illustration of ED pharmacist with many arms answering a phone, looking at a script, looking at diagnostics on a tablet, typing on a computer and looking at three different kinds of medicines

How prescribing pharmacists can make an impact in the emergency department

Illustration of a person in a tie building a green pharmacy cross our of lego

Using entrustable professional activities to build the future pharmacist

Illustration of a pill box surrounded by

Medicines optimisation teams need to showcase their value to withstand ICB funding cuts

Woman with eyes closed pinching nose, illustration.

Help us understand current pharmacy practice in migraine management by sharing your experience

Learning & CPD

A premature baby is being examined by a doctor

Congenital heart disease: an overview

Female patients in a consultation with her pharmacist

The importance of active preparation for surgery

Test your knowledge of dermatological conditions

Photo of a mentor and mentee discussing something on an ipad, holding coffee in takeaway cups

How to be an effective mentor

Photo of a nurse or pharmacist in hospital holding a clipboard and looking down with care at a patient in bed

Continuity of care and reducing risk during transitions of care

Photo overhead of creon capsules on a beige table

Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency: causes, diagnosis and treatment

Illustration of a sixty year old man with a patch for treatment on

Medication maths: using provided formula

Your RPS

David Webb, chief pharmaceutical officer for England

Chief pharmaceutical officer welcomes RPS royal college switch

Well superintendent pharmacist among 28 new RPS Fellows

A sign outside of a Superdrug pharmacy

More than 40 Superdrug pharmacies achieve bronze status under RPS greener pharmacies scheme

Letters

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