Lindsey Fountain talks to the editors of the new book Practical Pharmaceutics about how they updated this edition of book and how it is structured to help pharmacists with patient care.The project was financed by the EAHP and the Dutch pharmaceutical organisations KNMP and NVZA. The book was published by Springer in August 2015. For further information please visit http://www.eahp.eu/publications/textbookPractPharm or http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319158136.