Social Issues

There are currently no plans to employ pharmacists at the UK’s first legal supervised healthcare setting, where people “can inject drugs obtained elsewhere”, C+D has learned. 

A coroner has raised concerns about GP practice “safety measures” after advice from a dispensing pharmacist and consultant psychiatrist was ignored.  

Community pharmacists in north east London can now offer low income and vulnerable patients advice and OTC treatments for 24 common minor illnesses, the local commissioner has revealed.

The government has announced that it will give pharmacists and pharmacy technicians the power to supply naloxone for future use without a prescription. 

A bill proposing “safe access zones” around places providing abortions has been backed by Scottish MSPs though its first stage and could be expanded to include pharmacies, the Scottish government has revealed.  

Pharmacist A.A. Dhand’s next crime novel is set for publication in spring 2025, with a plot inspired by his own experiences of “drugs, dealers and incredible stories of maverick drug-deals”.

The former secretary of state has suggested that pharmacies “utilise their own buildings” to offer a social prescribing service.  

A coroner has raised concerns that pharmacies have “no apparent obligation” to report when a patient stops collecting methadone, after a man died when a pharmacy’s warnings were ignored.  

Pharmacists have helped almost 200 patients to get support for domestic abuse since 2021, the government has revealed.  

The MHRA has warned that aripiprazole is linked to an increase in reports of “gambling disorder and pathological gambling”, as well as other impulse disorders.