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Avicenna partners with Healthya to help members deliver clinical services

Avicenna has partnered Healthya to help its member pharmacies deliver clinical services.

22 Sep 2026

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Managing inappropriate polypharmacy

An overview of appropriate and inappropriate polypharmacy and its management, as well as the role of deprescribing.

21 Sep 2026

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Closing the dementia awareness gap

Mark Greener reviews a new report that highlights the need to raise awareness of modifiable risk factors to protect brain health

17 Sep 2026

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RCPharm urges MHRA to review safety information for propranolol

The Royal College of Pharmacy is concerned people at risk of overdose, self-harm and suicide continue to be prescribed the medicine.

17 Sep 2026

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Pharmacy First expansion will see pharmacists operate “beyond their training”, warns doctors body

The Doctors’ Association UK said GPs can deal with the “hidden complexities of patients presenting" with minor illness.

14 Sep 2026

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What's the evidence behind the 10,000 daily step target?

Much has been made of the importance of doing 10,000 steps a day, but a new analysis has revealed just how many daily steps are actually needed to provide clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes. Rod Tucker steps up to the data…

11 Sep 2026

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Antidepressant prescriptions on the increase in England, reveals latest NHSBSA figures

The NHS Business Services Authority revealed 24.2 million antidepressant items were prescribed in Q.1 of 2026-27.

10 Sep 2026

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Health leaders want national IP framework with ‘explicit’ patient perspective

Experts at a summer roundtable in London called for national standards to ensure safe, consistent delivery of pharmacist independent prescribing.

10 Sep 2026

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NPA chair urges health secretary to convene medicines supply chain taskforce

National Pharmacy Association chair Olivier Picard urged Yvette Cooper to address supply “fragility” after another serious shortage protocol was announced.

09 Sep 2026

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FIP: Pharmacists can help prevent substance use disorders

The International Pharmaceutical Federation said pharmacists can help tackle non-medicinal use of psychoactive substances.

08 Sep 2026

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Boots pilots blood type self-testing to help increase blood donations

Boots branches in south London and Birmingham are providing 25,000 free kits to help improve treatment of sickle cell disease.

07 Sep 2026

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Respiratory infections: assessment

Ikwuoma Udeaja outlines a structured approach for pharmacists assessing, differentiating and managing common winter respiratory infections encountered in community pharmacy

04 Sep 2026

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Scottish Government must give part-time pharmacists and locums IP training

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association said pharmacists faced “an insurmountable challenge to meet eligibility criteria”.

03 Sep 2026

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Respiratory symptoms: assessment

Professor Paul Rutter outlines the key signs and symptoms associated with changes in respiratory health and explains how pharmacists can use targeted assessment to support differential diagnoses

02 Sep 2026

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MHRA suspends use, supply and sale of Avacopan Vifor to new patients

The medicines regulator said the study underpinning the drug's authorisation can no longer be relied on to demonstrate its efficacy.

02 Sep 2026

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