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With pharmacists and other healthcare professionals responsible for prescribing and administering countless medications every day, unfortunately medication errors do sometimes happen.

The UK Pharmacy Professional Leadership Advisory Board (UKPPLAB) is calling on pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and the wider pharmacy workforce across the UK to get involved in shaping the future of professional leadership.

In a compelling and heartfelt webinar hosted by UKCPA, Nadia Imbert-Terry, an advanced pharmacy technician for Acute Care at Home in Swindon, shared her extraordinary journey through the pharmacy profession.

This article discusses the first 12 months of the project’s implementation and its impact on staff experience and workforce metrics. 

A lack of confidence in clinical decision making is common in newly qualified pharmacists. With the upcoming change in 2026 that sees pharmacists qualifying as prescribers, the stakes are even higher.

Do you know what pharmacy professionals do in community health services?

This scoping and planning project was shaped by the staff, for the staff, and best described how they wanted to experience workplace well-being day-to-day in the department.

This model, involving clinicians from primary and secondary care specialist clinics, has the potential to address lipid optimisation on a large scale

Currently, there are no guidelines on the use of octreotide, which leads to significant variation in the way it is being used for different patients.

Since the switch, we have received positive feedback from patients and nurses, and the antimicrobial stewardship team has confidence that the correct dose of antibiotics is being administered.