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Pharmacists handing out antibiotics will not solve the GP crisis or antimicrobial resistance

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17 October 20227 February 2023

Thérèse Coffey, the UK’s Health Secretary, has proposed that pharmacists should be able to hand out antibiotics without a doctor’s prescription. This has provoked alarm among medics and scientists, and…Read More >

Pharmacists handing out antibiotics will not solve the GP crisis or antimicrobial resistance

The COVID-19 pandemic is our chance to learn how to reuse old medicines

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28 May 202024 April 2023

It’s usually illegal to reuse leftover medicines in the UK for any purpose. But as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the government has released guidance that allows this to happen…Read More >

Better cancer drug prescribing to help patients and doctors

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12 December 201815 November 2021

Pharmacy student Daniel Mercer is one of two winners of Reading’s annual undergraduate research programme. We spoke to him about his research to improve prescription of cancer drugs and what…Read More >

Medicines: is it time to challenge the throw away culture?

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20 July 201823 February 2023

We throw away or destroy millions of unused medicines each year, at an estimated cost of £300m to the NHS. But could they be safely re-used? Reading’s Dr Parastou Donyai…Read More >

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