RPS Policies

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Our members deal with many different issues every day, whether working in community, hospital or other pharmacy sectors.

That’s why we’ve created a range of professional guides dealing with legal, ethical and good practice to support you in your day-to-day practice.

Below are all our policies and key issues we're engaging with.

A

Access to Medicines

Access to Patient Health Records

Aesthetic Practice and Pharmacy

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Assisted Dying (updated 2022)

B

Brexit

C

Cancer Support and Community Pharmacists

Cardiovascular Disease

Care Homes: Pharmacists Improving Care in Care Homes

COVID-19 vaccinations for pharmacists

Cross Border Healthcare Directive

D

Diabetes (Using pharmacists to help improve care for people with type 2 diabetes) 

Drug deaths and the role of the pharmacy team

E

E-cigarettes

F

Fit Note Position Statement

Flu Vaccination Service

Future of Pharmacy in a sustainable NHS

G

GP Surgeries: Pharmacists Working with/in GP Practices

H

Health Inequalities Position Paper

L

Long COVID

Long-Term Conditions: Pharmacist-led Care of People with Long Term Conditions

M

Medicines Wastage

Mental Health and Wellbeing, Role in Pharmacy: COVID-19 and beyond

Mental health conditions: Improving care of people in England

Mental health conditions: Improving care of people in Scotland

N

New Medicines Service (NMS)

O

Online Pharmacy Services

P

Putting the patient first: how pharmacy can get it right

Palliative and End of Life Care (Wales)

Patient Health Records

Patient Group Directions by Pharmacy Technicians

Pharmacist Independent Prescribers

Pharmacists in General Practice: Repeat Prescribing Position Statement (Scotland only)

Pharmacogenomics Position Paper

Pharmacy Technicians

Prescribing and dispensing by the same healthcare professional guidance

Prescribing and dispensing by the same healthcare professional position statement

Prescription Charges

Primary Care Networks (England only)

Protected Learning Time

S

Shortages Policy

Social Prescribing

Strengthening Pharmacy Governance (Supervision)

Sustainability

U

Urgent and Emergency Care: Improving U&E Care Through Better Use of Pharmacists

W

Women's health

Workforce: Improving Capacity and Culture