Mystifying medicines and maximising profit: Antibiotic distribution in community pharmacies in Thailand.

Thailand's antimicrobial stewardship strategy has focussed on promoting 'rational drug use' in the public sector, to reduce the threat of drug resistance and control healthcare expenditure. The strategy's next ambition is to attend to the private sector, where antibiotics are widely available over the counter without prescription. Using ethnographic and survey data, this paper follows antibiotics through community pharmacies, to explore drug distribution and access, and identify potential challenges for stewardship.

Experiences and supportive care needs of UK patients with pancreatic cancer: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey.

Objectives: Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer have the poorest survival prognosis of any cancer. This survey aimed to describe their experiences of care and supportive care needs to inform future service provision.

Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey of patients with pancreatic cancer in the UK.