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357 New
regulatory council intends to watch disciplinary committees closely The
Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals (CRHP) intends
to watch closely over the shoulder of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Statutory Committee ...more
357 WHO
commends NICE processes The National Institute for Clinical
Excellence has been praised by the World Health Organization for achieving
an international reputation in only four years. But the praise is tempered
by concern that pharmaceutical companies are too close to the appraisal
process and by conflicts between transparency and confidentiality ...more
357 Minister
sets out ETP review Health Minister Rosie Winterton took advantage
of her speech to the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Harrogate this
week to say the that a review of the electronic transmission of prescriptions
(ETP) pilots has been published ...more
358 Regular
NSAID use may reduce the cardioprotective benefits of aspirin Non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may interfere with the cardioprotective
benefits of aspirin, according to research ...more
358 Human
monoclonal antibody licensed for rheumatoid arthritis A fully
human monoclonal antibody has been licensed for the treatment of rheumatoid
arthritis ...more
358 More
patients should take multiple antihypertensives Many patients
on monotherapy should be on triple or quadruple therapy to achieve adequate
blood pressure control according to Professor Graham MacGregor, chairman
of the Blood Pressure Association and professor of cardiovascular medicine
at St George's Hospital Medical School, London ...more
358 GSL
application for Canesten Combi Bayer wants Canesten Combi
(Canesten 500mg pessary and 10g Canesten 2 per cent cream) to be a general
sale list medicine ...more
359 Lack
of funds is not why doctors are slow to prescribe newer medicines A
lack of central funding is not the reason why doctors in the United Kingdom
are more reluctant to prescribe recently launched medicines, according
to research carried out for a group representing American pharmaceutical
companies with subsidiaries in the UK ...more
359 Patchy
progress on bringing in clinical governance in hospitals, NAO report
says The foundations for clinical governance now exist in
nearly all hospital trusts in England but its implementation is patchy,
according to a progress report from the National Audit Office (NAO) ...more
359 Scotland
extends vaccine campaign Pneumococcal vaccination is to be
offered to around half a million people in Scotland aged over 65 years
at the same time as they receive influenza vaccination ...more |
British Pharmaceutical
Conference 2003 NEWS
360 Minister announces £1m funding for training technicians and assistants Health
Minister Rosie Winterton announced new funding for pharmacy technician
training in her address to the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Harrogate
this week ...more
360 Pharmacy
needs more resources Pharmacy has now gone beyond the crossroads
it was stalled at for many years, the President of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society, Dr Gill Hawksworth, told the BPC on 17 September ...more
360 Pharmacists
must only prescribe when there is real patient need Pharmacists
must only take on prescribing roles if they are in a position to prescribe
on a regular basis and there is a patient need, said Professor Judy Cantrill,
University of Manchester ...more
360 NPSA
reporting and learning system to go live in November National
Health Service staff in England and Wales will be expected to report
medication errors from 24 November when the National Patient Safety Agency's
reporting and learning system goes live ...more
360 PCPs
want more Society support In a straw poll of participants
in the primary care pharmacists programme, 93 per cent said that the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society's communication and support for primary
care pharmacists was either seriously below or some way below their requirements
...more
361 Chief
officers admit workforce failures Workforce planning is an
area that has not been properly tackled, the chief pharmaceutical officers
of England, Scotland and Wales have admitted ...more
361 Boots
launches new coronary heart disease service A new service
that aims to improve concordance and patient care for people with coronary
heart disease was launched this week by Boots The Chemists ...more
361 Children's
NSF to be published next year Remaining sections of the National
Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services are
to be published early in the new year, according to Professor Al Aynsley-Green,
national clinical director for children and Nuffield Professor of Child
Health at the Institute of Child Health, University College London and
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children ...more
361 Future
cancer care delivery will be by pharmacists Specialist community-based
cancer prevention services will be in place within the next decade, according
to Professor Karol Sikora, visiting professor of cancer medicine, Imperial
College, London ...more |
