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EDX/20/1154
Date of prep: December 2020

Prescribing information and
adverse events reporting

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Insight

What impact has the Covid-19 pandemic had on your life as a pharmacist?

11th January 2021 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

This survey has been developed and designed by Sarah Cameron in partnership with Pharmacy in Practice.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: research

Andrea James comments on methadone toxicity case

8th January 2021 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

The case arises from the death of a young man following a methadone overdose in April 2020.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: Methadone, Prevention of future deaths

Secrets of the Scottish drug tariff

5th January 2021 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

The Drug Tariff contains various information regarding the prescribing, dispensing and reimbursement of medicines and appliances on NHS prescriptions.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: Drug tariff

Working remotely as a prescribing pharmacist during a pandemic

18th December 2020 by Reece Samani Leave a Comment

Though 2020 has come with plenty of challenges, it has also provided some new avenues – or widened avenues that already existed.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: career spotlight, careers

Is hub and spoke dispensing good for community pharmacy?

12th December 2020 by Reece Samani Leave a Comment

Community pharmacy is changing with the times. New technologies are being introduced, focuses are shifting & new ways of working are developing rapidly.

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Filed Under: Insight, Uncategorised Tagged With: Hub and spoke

What next for community pharmacists managing people with asthma?

11th December 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Looking back now five years on from when I wrote the article below I am no less moved by the terrible findings of the NRAD in 2014.

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Filed Under: Insight, Opinion Tagged With: asthma, community pharmacy

Will pharmacies be asked to supply ‘free’ sanitary products?

9th December 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Scotland became the first country in the world to make legislation which effectively means the provision of free period products to those who require them.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: community pharmacy, Sanitary products, Scotland

Is Amazon about to move your pharmacy cheese?

4th December 2020 by Reece Samani Leave a Comment

Over the years we have seen a rise in the number of prescriptions that are being fulfilled by distant selling pharmacies (DSPs).

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Filed Under: Insight, Opinion, Uncategorised Tagged With: Amazon, Online pharmacy

This time last year…

9th November 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

This time last year, it would have been impossible for any of us to imagine just what challenges lay ahead in the coming months.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: blog, community pharmacy Scotland, Coronavirus, Covid 19, leadership

This year has destroyed my mental health

13th October 2020 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

My mental health has been destroyed. I can hardly sleep at night, I keep weighing up the choice of going to work to earn for my family and sustain my self.

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Filed Under: Insight Tagged With: Pre-reg, Pro reg, Pro-reg pharmacists

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