Practical Approach A prescription is presented to you for oxycodone, written and signed by a nurse non-medical prescriber. Can you dispense it?

Practical Approach You see a dispensing assistant snipping the expiry date off a blister pack. Is this a matter that could give rise to whistleblowing?

Practical Approach Test yourself in this everyday pharmacy scenario

Practical Approach A woman has asked at the Update Pharmacy medicines counter for something for a badly blocked nose. Pharmacist David Spencer questions her to find out what condition she is suffering from.

Practical Approach David Spencer, pharmacist at the Update Pharmacy, is having his monthly meeting with GP Mo Merali, to whose practice he provides prescribing advice. What are the problems with the cases Mo has referred to David?

As part of the pre-registration pharmacist training at Update Pharmacy, pharmacist and tutor David Spencer sets a series of exercises for trainees.

A friend of David Spencer's refuses a coffee at the end of a meal, insisting it's "terrible stuff". Can you separate the facts from the myths about caffeine?

How would you advise a newly prescribed warfarin patient who's worried about missing a dose, the effects of the drug and interactions.

Can you offer advice to a patient who feels the medicine he has been prescribed is giving him a cough?

A 68-year-old man who had a heart attack a year ago, and who is diabetic and on insulin, is determined to go on the Hajj. What are the risks and what advice would you offer?

The UK is in the grip of a potential public health crisis caused by alcohol. Update looks at the health risks associated with excessive alcohol consumption

This week's Update looks at understanding the value of food types and creating balanced diets for obese patients

This week's Update looks at pharmacists' role in preventing the 80,000 smoking-related deaths in England each year.

Looking for some last minute practice ahead of the pre-registration exam in September? Try your hand at these free questions. You can use your BNF, MEP and Drug Tariff.

With a week to go, get some last-minute practice in with these challenging questions for the closed book pre-reg exam.

With the pre-reg exam at the end of this month, get some practice in for the open book paper with these ten questions. You can use your BNF, MEP and Drug Tariff.

With the pre-reg exam coming up later this month, get some practice in with these two questions for the closed book exam.

With time ticking away before the pre-reg exam, test yourself with these two practice questions to help you prepare.

Do you know your diagnostic signs? Test your knowledge ahead of the pre-reg exam with these two questions for the closed book paper.

With the pre-registration exam only a month away, test yourself with these two questions for the closed book exam.

A patient is going abroad for six months and wants to know if it's cheaper to buy his allergy nasal spray over the counter. Try your hand at this calculation and sharpen your skills ahead of the pre-reg exam.

Try this tough multiple completion calculation question to boost your preparation ahead of the pre-registration exam.

Have a go at these two questions for the pre-registration exam. You can use your copy of the BNF.