National Association of Co-operative Executive Pharmacists
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The National Association of Co-operative Executive
Pharmacists held its annual conference in Cork on 13–15 October.
Speakers discussed current developments in community pharmacy
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Challenges in community pharmacy
Scotland is in its third year of developing pharmaceutical
care programmes and has a number of pilots in other areas, according to
FRANK OWENS, chairman of the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council...[more]
Managing current risks in community
pharmacy Current challenging areas in pharmacy are in local
pharmaceutical services, the new contract, control of entry and intra-and
extra-professional competition, said JOHN D’ARCY, chief executive,
National Pharmaceutical Association...[more]
Moving
towards electronic transfer of prescriptions The first step
towards introduction of electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) should
be establishing electronic claims processing, according to RICHARD MULCAHY,
managing director, Systems Solutions. Electronic claims processing is
in operation in 65 per cent of community pharmacies in the Republic of
Ireland and runs on Systems Solutions software...[more]
No longer
at the crossroads Pharmacy is no longer at the crossroads,
according to MARSHALL DAVIES, President, Royal Pharmaceutical Society...[more]
Unprecedented
challenges Community pharmacy faces an unprecedented number
of interacting challenges at the moment, said SUE SHARPE, chief executive,
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee...[more]
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