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• Listen!

  Being in community pharmacy all these years I feel that I have learnt a lot. So much has happened over the years, that I now share these experiences with newly qualified pharmacists and students to hopefully divert them from making the same mistakes and gain better professional experience. However, recently I went through a learning… Continue reading »

• What can pharmacists do

  What can pharmacists do to improve patient health literacy Health literacy is defined by the WHO (2015) as “the personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health”. Ironically I feel, this definition could be quite complex for some people… Continue reading »

• Antibiotic Stewardship

  What Role Can Community Pharmacy Play in Antibiotic Stewardship? Antibiotic resistance is a substantial growing global health threat to the public. Our bodies are becoming immune to the effects of antibiotics as a whole. Since there hasn’t been a new class of antibiotics in over 30 years, there’s little ways to reduce antibiotic resistance. We… Continue reading »

• Interview with the DiaryDolls

  Carol Smillie & Annabel Croft by Sunil Kochhar The temperature felt hotter than usual today. I couldn’t tell if it was natural, or because of the excitement I was feeling about interviewing Carol Smillie (CS) and Annabel Croft (AC) of DiaryDoll. DiaryDoll, besides having a name that caught my eye early on, offer the perfect… Continue reading »

• Improving Medication Safety

  10 Quick Things a Pharmacist Wants You to Know! Pharmacists undertake great care to reduce errors and harm when it comes to supplying your medicines. They work closely with the health system to supply you with secure, regulated, and effective medication that benefit you as an individual. But you too have the tools to increase… Continue reading »

• Well, Men?

  Not so long ago, on a typical Monday, a staff member phoned in sick. And yes, as usual, its that week where you have one staff away on holiday and a load of action points to complete. So in these emergencies we have a plan … the skeleton staffing know their positions and we work… Continue reading »

• The One Where You Quit

  by Rachel Don Bosco Counter Assistant – Regent Pharmacy You’ve probably heard it before ‘Smoking Kills’. It’s advertised clearly wherever you go, on TV on posters even on cigarette boxes. But we have become so used to it that the phrase has lost all meaning. I mean when you think about it, smoking goes against every survival… Continue reading »

• Caring for your heart

  – the importance of omega 3 In the world of dieting and weight loss, fat has gained bit of a villain status, which has been revelled by research in recent years, to be completely unfair. I’ll be the first to admit that I used to be a tad confused over the full fat Vs low… Continue reading »

• The One Week With The FrankenChemist

  by Rachel Don Bosco Counter Assistant – Regent Pharmacy What is the definition of a FrankenChemist? The Rachel’s Dictionary of Life depicts it as a pharmacist with a multiple personality disorder, who is able to be human by portraying both characteristics essential for when dealing with different members of the public and characteristics influenced by their main… Continue reading »

• Looking after your intimate health

  – a step by step guide from prevention to natural treatments. The facts are that 8% of women suffer from thrush as often as four times a year, 30% suffer from recurring cystitis and BV affects 1 in 3 women with a high rate of recurrence. Are you one of these women? There are well… Continue reading »