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A new generation of treatments none of us thought was possible could be just around the corner.

Claire Ward: Pharmacists can review patients' medicines to reduce unnecessary polypharmacy. Are you listening Sajid Javid?

Revalidation and IT are areas that, on reflection, require our correspondent’s attention...    

Community pharmacists must train themselves not to see everything as being about them, says Peter Kelly. 

The five-year CPCF deal is like a curate’s egg - there's an awful lot of the detail still to come.

Given the focus on Brexit, pharmacy might be waiting a while to find a slot in the parliamentary timetable, says Claire Ward.

Prozac has helped reduce the stigma attached to depression but did it help reduce violent crime?

More women involved in pharmacy leadership positions should be seen as a benefit not a threat, says Claire Ward.

Sid Dajani: When Sandra Gidley said community pharmacies don’t make the best use of technicians she got it wrong. 

There is a problem with overprescribing of opioids but is it to do with the law of unintended consequences?

There are challenges in Wales but there is much that can be learned about its approach to pharmacy, says Claire Ward.

Primary care networks are bonkers. It’s old thinking, old ways of failure and old strategy, says Sid Dajani. 

The apprenticeship trailblazer group is still unknown. Boots, Well, Lloydspharmacy, Superdrug...what a reticent bunch!

Does the apprenticeship trailblazer group really think pharmacists shouldn't diagnose and manage care, asks Claire Ward.

Negativity has greeted apprenticeships. Is this because people don’t understand them, asks Pharmacist Spectator.

Posts on the Women in Pharmacy Facebook group show that members still face discrimination, says Deborah Evans.

It was as well Kleenex rebranded its ‘man-size’ tissues before someone reported their pharmacist to the trading standards office.  

What can pharmacists learn from stand-up comedy and sports psychology to help them cope with unannounced GPhC inspections?

A debate about the serious shortage protocols exposed MPs' ignorance about pharmacists' expertise in medicines.

As the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s star wanes, the Pharmacist’s Defence Association’s rises, says our correspondent.