Primary care and community pharmacy network
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The many challenges and changes that pharmacy has
encountered in the past year and will encounter in the year ahead
were considered at the Primary Care and Community Pharmacy Network
annual conference held in Newcastle upon Tyne on 8 and 9 October.
Jane Swan (head of Nottingham Community Pharmacy Service, Gedling
PCT, Nottingham) reports
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Meeting the challenge of change
There will never be a better opportunity to reshape pharmacy
services than is offered by the National Health Service modernisation
programme, the conference was told by Beth Taylor (pharmacy manager, Community
Health South London NHS Trust, and a member of the National Modernisation
Board). But, she asked, can pharmacy deliver?...[more]
Pharmacy plan is profession’s
biggest opportunity The NHS pharmacy plan offers the profession
its biggest opportunity and challenge in a generation, said Dr Jim Smith
(chief pharmaceutical officer, Department of Health)...[more]
Intermediate
care as aid to returning home An intermediate care system to
help hospital patients return to their homes was described by Paula Wilkinson
(assistant chief pharmacist, Mid-Essex Hospitals)...[more]
Progress
on medicines management The national medicines management programme
was outlined by Mark Pilling and Breeda Worthington (development managers,
Collaborative Medicines Management Services Programme)...[more]
Care standards:
issues for pharmacy Issues for pharmacy arising from the creation
of the National Care Standards Commission were discussed by NCSC chairman
Anne Parker...[more]
PGDs need
national co-ordination Local development of patient group directions
for walk-in centres has led to much duplication of effort, said Anne Joshua
(principal pharmacist, NHS Direct and walk-in centres, Department of Health)...[more]
Effect of
health scares on vaccination coverage is cause for concern The
impact of health scares on vaccination coverage is causing concern, according
to Dr Natasha Crowcroft (consultant epidemiologist, Communicable Disease
Surveillance Centre, Public Health Laboratory Service)...[more]
Five challenges
that the profession must see as opportunities In a keynote
speech, Professor Clare Mackie (professor of pharmacy practice, Robert
Gordon University, Aberdeen) described changes facing pharmacy, that have
to be seen as opportunities...[more]
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