Setting up a drug treatment service in a COVID-protect hotel in inner London

The hotel was a five-storey building in one of the borough's more affluent areas. Core staff continued to work at the hotel, including domestic and reception staff. Initially catering was outsourced...

A case of decency

Hello and happy new year from the Journal of Prescribing Practice (JPrP). I'm sure for many that sentiment feels like a stretch this year. Last year we had the hope of the COVID-19 vaccination program...

Drug updates: January

Around 1500 people in England with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic condition, will benefit from a new medicine after The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released...

Drug breakdown: Nystatin

Day 1: Discovered via painstaking screening of soil samples in 1950 by Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, #nystatin is a mixture of antifungal polyenes derived from the bacteria Streptomyces...

A challenging winter lies ahead of us

Drug updates: December

Draft guidance, published on the 18 November, is the first time NICE has made recommendations about the use of an HIV treatment since these came under NICE's remit in 2019. It is estimated that...

Drug breakdown: clopidogrel

Day 1: While searching for novel anti-inflammatory drugs in the 1980s, the prodrug #clopidogrel was discovered and launched worldwide in 1998 as an oral antiplatelet agent..

Statin treatment efficacy, risk and controversy

In a recent study published in the British Medical Journal, Cai et al (2021) aimed to assess the associations between statins and adverse events in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease,...

Electronic prescribing

This original research article published in the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy aimed to investigate any differences in rates of prescribing errors made by medical prescribers as compared to...

COVID-19 booster vaccinations

In November 2021 the UK Health Security Agency (2021) announced that those ‘aged 50 years and over, health and social care workers and younger people at risk are being offered a booster dose of...

The role of bempedoic acid in the management of dyslipidaemia

Cholesterol is a molecule which is an essential component in the body’s ability to form healthy cell membranes, but as far back as the 19th century it was recognised that atheromatous plaques...

Changing the process of prescribing to procuring lymphoedema compression garments: a service evaluation

The main aim of this evaluation was to estimate the potential impact of changing the way compression garments are accessed from a prescription to a procurement process. The main objectives were to:.