Pharmacy: Subject websites

Here you will find tried and tested general and gateway websites for Pharmacy.  If you have suggestions for additional links, please contact us !

• ABPI: Links to Sites of Pharmaceutical Interest 
• DotPharmacy   - news and information service aimed at community pharmacists from the publishers of "Chemist & Druggist"
• MHRA  - the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• NHS Evidence: Health Information Resources 
• PJ Online 
• NeLM:  Useful Links NHS National electronic Library for Medicines
• UKMi NHS UK Medicines Information
• Health-EH: medicines_and_treatment

Clinical Pharmacy

• CKS
• Orphanet: Oprhan Drugs Search
• Prodigy - provided free of charge by Clarity Informatics (previously funded by NHS Evidence as CKS -Clinical Knowledge Summaries)
• UKCPA: UK Clinical Pharmacy Association  - membership required to access clinical area group networks (free for BPSA members)   

Community Pharmacy

 Continuing Professional Development

• Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education
• PJOnline: CPD
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Continuing Professional Development

Hospital Pharmacy

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Hospital Pharmacists Group

Local Pharmaceutical Services

• The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

• PSNC: Enhanced and Local Services

• National Evaluation of Local Pharmaceutical Services (LPS) Pilots

• NHS Choices: Website: Find Services : select "Pharmacies" and type in the postcode or place name

Patient Information

• AskYourPharmacist
• eMims Patient Resources
• eMC Medicines Guides
• NHS Direct Online

 Prescribing

• NICE Medicines and Prescribing Centre : From 15th May 2012, this is where you will find all new information and resources from the team  previously delivering the work of the NPC, and now integrated into NICE alongside the Clinical Guidelines team within the Centre for Clinical Practice.
• National Prescribing Centre (NPC): legacy website:  resources will still be available for as long as the information contained within them remains accurate and up-to-date, this includes podcasts , evidence informed decision making and shared practice examples.
•  NeLM Area: Evidence: Medicines-Management: References  References and abstracts of papers on medicines management, pharmacy practice and prescribing.  Includes relevant abstracts from the Pharm-line database from 1978-2009
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society: Pharmacist Prescribing Group

 Primary Care

• Primary Care Pharmacists Association

Public Health Pharmacy

• Health Protection Agency
• National electronic Library of Infection
• Pharmacy Workforce North West: Community Pharmacy and Public Health
• UK Vaccine Industry Group

• MedlinePlus: Herbs and Supplements
• MHRA: Herbal medicines regulation and safety
• MHRA: Homeopathic medicines

Pharmacology and Pharmacy Free Journals listed by the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research

APPG Medicine Shortages Report - published 15/05/2012 by the All-Party Pharmacy Group.  There are also links to the inquiry transcripts and written submissions

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

• British HIV Association  provides a series of  Treatment Guidelines
• HIV Drug Interactions   

 

Cancer

• British Oncology Pharmacy Association  
• https://www.macmillan.org.uk/Aboutus/Ouresearchandevaluation/Researchandevaluation/RichPictures/Richpictures.aspx Macmillan has created a series of 15 Rich Pictures on the different groups within the two million people living with cancer. They each summarise the numbers, needs and experiences of these different groups of people. A Rich Picture document brings cancer data and evidence to life with real quotes and case studies as well as looking at media perceptions.

Cardiology

• UKPCA  (United Kingdom Pharmacy Practice Association) - members can join the Cardiology group

Geriatric Pharmacy

UKPCA (United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association): Care of the elderly group for members

 

History of Pharmacy

• British Society for the History of Pharmacy

International Pharmacy

• Bioline International includes Indian Journal of Pharmacology , Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research , African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines
• International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)

Nuclear Pharmacy

• UK Radiopharmacy Group

Ophthalmic Pharmacy

• UK Ophthalmic Pharmacists Group

Paediatric Pharmacy

• Medicines for Children  MHRA information on the regulation of medicines for paediatric use
• Medicines for Children  - information for patients and carers,  from a partnership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG), and national child health charity WellChild.
• Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group

 

Patient Information

• MHRA: Advice and information for consumers

 Pharmaceutical Microbiology

• PharMIG

Pharmacoepidemiology

• International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)

Pharmacogenetics

• NIGMS Pharmacogenetics Research Network
• Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacogenetics in Wellcome Sanger's Your Genome website
• What is pharmacogenomics ?   from the US National Library of Medicine's Genetics Home Reference

Psychiatric Pharmacy

• British Association for Psychopharmacology
• United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group

Renal Pharmacy

• UK Renal Pharmacy Group

Respiratory Pharmacy

• UKCPA  (United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association) - Respiratory group for members

Rheumatology Pharmacy

• UKCPA (United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association) - Rheumatology Group for members

Sports Pharmacy

• SportsPharmacy.com

Toxicology

• National Poisons Information Service
• Regional Laboratory for Toxicology
• Tictac Visual drug identification database
• Environmental Health and Toxicology SIS - a Specialised Information Service from the United States National Library of Medicine. The Toxicology Information Page includes the Toxnet databases, internet resources and a PubMed Toxicology Subset search