The ASHP Vision for the Pharmacy Workforce in Hospitals and Health Systems expresses a vision for building the workforce capacity of pharmacy departments in hospitals and health systems to meet the growing challenges related to optimizing the use of medicines in those settings.

Methods Ex-factory prices per unit as for June 2013 of 31 oncology medicines in 16 European countries, Australia and New Zealand were surveyed and compared. Medicine price data for the 16 European countries were provided by the Pharma Price Information (PPI) service, and Australian and New Zealand medicine price data were retrieved from the respective Pharmaceutical Schedules. Official undiscou...

Background Better access to essential medicines for children is an important pre-condition for improving their health and reducing mortality. However, the results of surveys implemented in some countries show that treatment of children is not always affordable due to a high cost of medicines. The objective of this work was to assess the situation with availability, prices and affordability of e...

The NHS relies on a variety of different staff, medicines and equipment in order to provide health care. Coupled with the volume of patients being treated, this can make it difficult to maintain safety. A new report from the National Audit Office looks at what can be done to make the NHS a safer environment for patients.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust submitted a successful bid to be one of 10 trusts involved in the first wave of the hospital medicines management collaborative. This article discusses the concept of medicines management and highlights the advantages of having a nurse as the project facilitator.

The aim of the present study was to characterize the utilization of medicines by the Brazilian population, using data from the Brazilian World Health Survey. Medicines were grouped according to the active pharmaceutical ingredient based on an adaptation of the World Health Organization standard list of essential medicines. The analysis included the characteristics of individuals who keep medici...