Working through the pandemic

Fresh and familiar challenges greet us in 2021

wrote my first draft of this editorial before Christmas, apprehensively waiting with bated breath to see just how the lift of restrictions for the holiday season would affect us going forward. Of...

Care continues to shine in difficult times

This has been a truly exceptional year for the world, the UK, the NHS and us as healthcare professionals. For me 2020 has been a true year of ups and downs and I mean this personally and...

The work goes on

Adapting to the new normal

As I write this editorial it is the beginning of a new academic year and preparations are almost complete for the new intake of students across the wide range of healthcare-related programmes, both...

Professional prescribing has made progress

The consequences of online prescribing

Drug Breakdown: Mercaptopurine

Day 1: A metabolite of azathioprine, #mercaptopurine was discovered to be an immunosuppressant circa 1950s. The role for #mercaptopurine developed in leukaemias (acute and maintenance therapy) and...

Drug Breakdown: Methotrexate