The government intends to set out its next steps on whether pharmacists should be enabled, in certain circumstances, to ...

Pharmacy owners could have 28 days to appoint a new superintendent pharmacist (SP), following the departure of a previous SP ...

Women exposed to glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists around conception did not have a “clearly detectable ...

Boots retail operations in the UK and Ireland will be acquired by Wittington Investments, the holding company of the Weston ...

Self-administered injectable medicines should be considered for reclassification as Pharmacy (P) medicines, the chief ...

Pharmacists risk becoming “liability sinks” in the period where regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is in its infancy, ...

A 2020 review led by Baroness Julia Cumberlege examined concerns raised by patients and families about the safety of medicines and medical devices. The review described doctors in the 1950s to 1970s ...

All 44 recommendations made by the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare have been accepted by the government. In a press release issued on 6 October 2026, the government said ...

Tase Oputu is the first president of the new Royal College of Pharmacy (RCPharm). A hospital pharmacist for most of her career, she has spent the past three years in an integrated care board in Kent — ...

“I was down to my last five days’ supply when I posted on social media. I looked into buying some, and could only find the Creon 10,000 capsules, which would mean taking up to 30 capsules per meal,” ...

Red-flag symptoms are warning signs that indicate a more serious underlying pathology in a patient. The term ‘red flag’ originated in the 1980s and related to back pain [1] . However, the term is now ...