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Remuneration to rise by 3.6 per cent
A revised offer of a 3.6 per cent increase in community pharmacy remuneration
has been accepted by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee...[more]
Prescribing given official go ahead
Pharmacists will be able to prescribe medicines on the National Health
Service from next year and nurses will be able to prescribe a wider range
of medicines...[more]
LPS assessments are appallingly inadequate —
PSNC vice chairman Assessments by primary care trusts of the
impact of local pharmaceutical services proposals on existing pharmacy
services are appalling, according to Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee vice-chairman Steven Williams...[more]
YPG to call for SGM on modernisation
The Young Pharmacists Group annual general meeting heard that the group
would be writing to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society soon asking for a
date for a special general meeting to discuss the Society's modernisation
programme...[more]
Doubts over prescribing training funds
Funds from the global sum will not be siphoned off and given to primary
care trusts to pay for pharmacists to undertake supplementary prescribing
training, Sue Sharpe, chief executive, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee, said during a question time session at the Young Pharmacists
Group annual conference in London...[more]
Start steroids early in meningitis
Early treatment with dexamethasone improves outcome in patients with acute
bacterial meningitis, a new study shows...[more]
Model pharmacy project progresses
Nearly £80,000 has been raised for the Young Pharmacists Group model
pharmacy project...[more]
Irish post-deregulation review to curb monopolies
Measures to curb the growth of monopolies in pharmacy in the Irish Republic
are likely to be recommended by a review group currently drafting a new
regulatory system in the aftermath of market liberalisation...[more]
WHO calls for more international aid to pay
for vaccination programmes More international aid is needed
to pay for vaccination programmes in developing countries, according to
the World Health Organization...[more]
Ciprofloxacin resistance is on the increase,
latest PHLS data show GONOCOCCAL resistance to cipro-floxacin
has increased, according to data gathered by a Public Health Laboratory
Service surveillance programme...[more]
Two winners for Prix Galien award 2002
Herceptin (trastuzumab) and Glivec (imatinib) share this year's United
Kingdom Prix Galien award for innovative pharmaceutical products...[more]
Pharmacies will not be sent compendiums
Community pharmacies will not receive free copies of the 2003 edition
of the Medicines Compendium. Instead they will have to purchase them through
the Pharmaceutical Press...[more]
Arthritic pain follows body clock
Levels of pain intensity and stiffness in arthritis appear to follow the
body's circadian rhythms...[more]
GMC rules will match other regulators'
The Government has made minor changes to the proposed regulations which
will govern the modernised General Medical Council, following public consultations...[more]
NHS to target health inequalities
The National Health Service is to give a greater emphasis to tackling
health inequalities following a review carried out by the Department of
Health and HM Treasury...[more]
Lambourn Pharmacy wins business award
Graham Jones, proprietor of Lambourn Pharmacy in Berkshire, is the overall
winner of UniChem's Great Business awards...[more]
Executive boosts diabetes funding
Diabetes services in Scotland will get £1.55m of new investment,
Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm announced last week...[more]
AAH Point on internet AAH Point,
the customer information service for AAH Pharmaceuticals, is now available
to pharmacies through the internet, as well as via the AAH intranet...[more]
Lloyds high achievers Twelve employees
of Lloydspharmacy have recently completed its 18-month management development
programme for high achievers...[more]
Lexon opening Jacqui Smith, Minister
of State for Health and Member of Parliament for Redditch, opened a new
80,000 sq ft distribution centre at Redditch for short-line wholesaler
and importer Lexon...[more]
PIs 15 per cent of NHS drugs spend
Parallel imports account for 15 per cent of all medicine sales to the
National Health Service, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
David Lammy said in a written answer in Parliament...[more]
Statins not to be withheld in the elderly
There is no longer any justification for withholding statin therapy from
older patients, Professor James Shepherd, University of Glasgow, said
this week at the American Heart Association annual scientific sessions
in Chicago...[more]
Enoxaparin and tirofiban fail to show benefit
for MI A trial designed to determine whether enoxaparin (Clexane)
and tirofiban (Aggrastat) could reduce the risk of adverse outcomes in
heart attack patients who were either ineligible or too late for thrombolytic
therapy has shown that neither therapy adds any benefit compared with
unfractionated heparin...[more]
Low-dose doxycycline for the heart
A sub-antimicrobial dose of doxycycline could be used to modulate inflammation
in acute coronary syndromes...[more]
Patients with coronary heart disease should
consider fish oil supplements Patients with coronary heart
disease (CHD) should consume one serving of oily fish or three fish oil
supplement capsules a day, according to new recommendations from the American
Heart Association...[more]
Clopidogrel of benefit in coronary intervention
Patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) benefit from
long-term treatment with clopidogrel (Plavix), researchers report. In
addition, pretreatment with the drug can increase the beneficial effects
if given early enough before PCI...[more]
Heart disease is the most costly condition in
the UK Coronary heart disease (CHD) cost over £7bn in
1999, making it the United Kingdom's most expensive medical condition,
according to health economists...[more]
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