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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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breast cancer can now receive Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan, Daiichi Sankyo) on the NHS in England, under final draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care ...

Independent prescribing pharmacists in England will be able to prescribe for migraine, rhinitis, ear infections in adults, acne and scabies as part of the Pharmacy First scheme, NHS England has ...

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 ...

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 ...