Regulate Article

November 2024

The struggle around medicines shortages

Medicines shortages can be distressing for all involved, including patients, the public and pharmacy teams. In this article we look at the extent of the problem, and at what pharmacy teams can do to help. The impact of medicines shortages on pharmacy...

November 2024

Why it’s important to avoid braille obstruction on medicine packaging

Find out how pharmacy teams can help make sure people with sight loss can access essential medicines and information about them Patient experience Key information and statistics on sight loss in the UK Tips on how to support people with sight loss...

November 2024

Providing pharmacy services to people with hidden or non-visible disabilities

In this article we highlight the challenges that individuals with hidden or non-visible disabilities face when accessing pharmacy services, and the reasonable adjustments pharmacy teams can implement to support their staff and people living with...

November 2024

Making pharmacy services accessible to everyone

In her blog for this edition, our chair, Gisela Abbam, highlights how pharmacy teams can help meet the needs of people with a range of disabilities, and also looks at the impact of medicines shortages. In this edition of Regulate, we’re focusing on...

October 2024

Gisela’s blog: Supplying medicines safely to patients

In her blog for this edition, our Chair, Gisela Abbam, shares the latest patient safety issues, and asks for feedback on two subjects – the proposed changes to guidance for online pharmacies and the fitness to practise process.

October 2024

Update on the provision of finasteride

Following the MHRA’s recent finasteride evidence review, we look at new safety measures, and what pharmacy teams need to know to supply the medicine safely to patients. Finasteride- an overview Finasteride is in a class of medications called 5-alpha...

October 2024

Patient consent and the NHS Electronic Prescription Service

Our investigations team have recently dealt with a number of concerns about changes to EPS nominations without patient consent. In this article, we want to highlight why patient consent is important. The NHS Electronic Prescription Service The NHS...