The Royal College of Pharmacy (RCPharm) formally launched in April 2026 and with it came its first cohort of national pharmacy advisory council chairs. Mahendra Patel, Liz Hallett and Catriona ...

The extension of the UK Rare Diseases Framework represents both progress and unfinished business. When it launched in 2021, the framework set out a shared ambition to address structural inequities ...

Community Pharmacy England (CPE), the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England have begun “exploratory ...

More than half of integrated care systems (ICSs) do not commission enough tests for childhood asthma, information gathered by charity Asthma + Lung UK has shown. Of 37 ICSs who responded to a survey ...

Often associated with relatively minor irritations, such as bread mould or athlete’s foot, fungi also have a much darker side. Life-threatening fungal infections affect 6.5 million people worldwide ...

Since the approval of semaglutide (Wegovy; Novo Nordisk) as a weight-loss injection in the United States in 2021, the effect of GLP-1 medicines on the treatment of obesity has been undeniable. In the ...

Women with incurable breast cancer can now receive Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan, Daiichi Sankyo) on the NHS in England, under final draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care ...

The All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) has recommended EURneffy, a 2mg nasal adrenaline spray, for the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis in NHS Wales. The recommendation applies to adults and ...

Access to insulin in NHS neonatal units should be restricted using digital devices, with CCTV installed on storage units in the meantime, the Thirlwall Inquiry has recommended. The inquiry, ...

Racial equity must be embedded across NHS artificial intelligence, the NHS Race and Health Observatory has said. It makes the call in ‘Towards trustworthy, equitable AI in the NHS‘, a report published ...

The UK government has said it will work to develop a “clear and scalable programme of psychological support” that could be rolled out if another pandemic occurs. Responding to recommendations made by ...

Proposed contracts for neighbourhood health services are too centred on general practice and NHS providers, and others — including community pharmacy — should be “equal partners in design, governance ...