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Books
What does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of pharmacy?
Will it replace pharmacists or empower them?
What can today’s professionals do to prepare for tomorrow’s digital reality?
The AI Pharmacist is the definitive guide to understanding artificial intelligence in pharmacy practice, from foundational concepts to real-world applications, emerging roles, and the future of the pharmacy workforce.
Digital medicines management marks a major shift from paper-based systems to integrated, data-driven tools that improve safety, efficiency, and clinical outcomes.
From electronic prescribing to real-time decision support, success depends on both technical understanding and effective change management.
This book offers practical insights to help healthcare professionals and digital leaders implement and optimise digital medicines solutions in NHS settings.
How do you survive your first day on the ward?
What does a hospital pharmacist actually do during a ward round?
How do you go from just “checking meds” to being a respected clinical voice?
Welcome to the real world of hospital pharmacy.
Whether you’re just starting out or switching from community, How to Be a Hospital Pharmacist is your no-nonsense guide to life inside the NHS. It Is honest, practical, and packed with the stuff they never teach you at university. From EPMA systems and discharge planning to MDT dynamics, interview strategies, and on-call survival.
Written by an experienced hospital pharmacist and digital health leader, this is the book you’ll wish someone handed you on day one.
From clinical governance and NHS contracts to rota planning, stock control, EPS, and service delivery, this book covers everything you need to manage a pharmacy professionally, legally, and profitably.
Whether you're newly qualified, newly promoted, or simply ready to level up, this guide gives you:
✔️ The systems and strategies to run your pharmacy like a pro
✔️ Practical solutions for everyday problems and staffing challenges
✔️ Clear explanations of GPhC standards, NHS claiming, CD handling, and audits
✔️ Tools to manage services, HR issues, time pressures, and financial risk
✔️ The real-life insight no one teaches, but every great manager learns
What did the ancients know about healing, and how much of it still matters today?
From temple scrolls to battlefield salves, enchanted roots to early anaesthetics, Ancient Pharmacology explores the hidden world of ancient drugs with the precision of a modern pharmacist and the curiosity of a historian. This groundbreaking book dives deep into how medicine was understood, prepared, used, feared, and forgotten in the ancient world and what modern science can tell us about it today.
Spanning Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, and beyond, this richly researched and beautifully written volume takes the reader on a global tour through centuries of healing practices. Drawing on both ancient texts and modern pharmacological science, it shows how early healers combined ritual, observation, and raw plant power to develop sophisticated remedies, some of which laid the foundations for modern medicine.
Learn drug classes the fun way.
Get ready to test your clinical pharmacy knowledge like never before, with 60 drug class-themed crosswords designed for students, pre-regs, pharmacists, and anyone wanting to master medicines through play.
This edition focuses on key therapeutic drug classes including:
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Beta-blockers
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ACE inhibitors
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Anticoagulants
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Insulins
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Diuretics
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Antidepressants
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Antipsychotics
…and many more.
Each puzzle is graded by difficulty:
🟢 Easy: Build your foundation
🟡 Moderate: Apply your knowledge
🔴 Hard: Tackle advanced clinical concepts
The Ultimate Guide to Modern Hospital Pharmacy, One Letter at a Time
From the controlled chaos of ward rounds to the quiet precision of aseptic services, hospital pharmacy is a world like no other. A to Z of Hospital Pharmacy offers a practical, insightful, and sometimes humorous look at the reality of working in secondary care, written by a pharmacist who’s been there, done it, and taken the bleep.
This book is your perfect companion if you are:
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A student or pre-registration pharmacist preparing for hospital placements
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A newly qualified or foundation pharmacist finding your feet in clinical rotations
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A community pharmacist transitioning into secondary care
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Or simply curious about how hospital pharmacy actually works in the NHS
Community pharmacy isn’t just a job. It’s a battlefield of barcodes, a masterclass in multitasking, and a daily test of your patience, clinical skill, and emotional resilience. This book captures it all.
From Accuracy Checking to Zinc, this practical, honest, and often hilarious guide takes you through the full alphabet of everyday pharmacy life, covering everything they didn’t teach you at university, but you desperately need to know to survive (and thrive) in the real world.
Whether you’re a newly qualified pharmacist, pre-reg trainee, experienced dispenser, pharmacy technician, or battle-hardened locum, A to Z of Community Pharmacy is your go-to handbook for frontline pharmacy life. No fluff. No theory-heavy chapters. Just real-world insights, bite-sized tips, and a wry smile at the organised chaos that defines this profession.
Step behind the counter of a community pharmacy and enter a world few truly see.
In Methadone Patients, pharmacist Kyle Cromey shares a powerful, unflinching, and often hilarious collection of true stories drawn from over a decade of working in the heart of Manchester’s pharmacy services.
From chaotic street characters to quiet, forgotten souls, these are not caricatures or stereotypes, they are real people, with complex lives, fierce loyalties, raw humour, and heartbreaking humanity
