Only a few community pharmacies in England have been involved in the planning of new neighbourhood health services, Janet ...

Codeine is an established, familiar and widely used analgesic. It is considered a weak opioid, with a potency around one tenth that of morphine (i.e. 60mg of codeine is equivalent to around 6mg of ...

Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) has agreed a funding uplift with the Scottish government for 2026/2027, the negotiator has said. In an announcement published on 25 September 2026, CPS said that the ...

Scotland’s first local drug-checking service will open in Glasgow in October 2026, allowing people to submit drugs for rapid ...

Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems are embedded across NHS hospitals and are viewed as a major advance in patient ...

Scottish community pharmacies are among sites where a new video remote interpreting (VRI) app — which provides live British ...

The chairs of six parliamentary committees have asked the National Audit Office (NAO) to look into whether the pharmaceutical ...

The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is one of the healthcare regulators that has committed to jointly developing “high-level principles” around the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) use ...

When most people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, a clock has been counting down inside them for several years. Autoantibodies have been silently attacking insulin-producing beta cells in the ...

The Pharmacists’ Defence Association (PDA) will now be able to fully contribute to negotiations on the pay and conditions of NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts, after becoming a full voting ...

The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare report, published on 10 September 2026, told the government ...

Around one in six children taking glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) experiences a nutritional deficiency ...