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763 Value
of goodwill disputed in contract A dispute between the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee and the Department of Health over goodwill
values is going to be central to negotiations over funding for the new
pharmacy contract ...more
763 GMS
money available to pharmacy Money given to primary care trusts
under the new general medical services (nGMS) contract to pay for enhanced
services is available to pharmacies ...more
763 NHS
to cut quangos The Secretary of State for Health, John Reid,
has launched a review of all NHS and social care quangos in a bid to
reduce their collective workforce of 19,000 ...more
763 MEPs
try to block unregulated European free movement plan Members
of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee have voted against
a plan to allow pharmacists and other health professionals to work anywhere
in Europe for up to 16 weeks a year without having to register in the
country they are in ...more
764 Over
1,000 call for Charter referendum Over 1,000 pharmacists have
supported a petition calling on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to hold
a referendum on its proposed new Royal Charter ...more
764 Medicines
Act confidentiality to go A section of the Medicines Act 1968
that stops the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency releasing
information is to be repealed ...more
764 Patient
forums must give written notice of pharmacy inspections Patients'
forums will need to give written notice before they can inspect community
pharmacy premises ...more
764 Charge
fraud pharmacist loses appeal A community pharmacist found guilty of defrauding the National Health Service of £2,000 has had her appeal against the conviction dismissed
...more
765 New
hospital pharmacist job profiles under Agenda for Change raise concern The
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists raised significant concerns this week
about five job profiles it received from the Agenda for Change job evaluation
working party ...more
765 Report
examines changes in community pharmacy How community pharmacy
is developing is examined in a new report published by the Community
Pharmacy Research Consortium ...more
765 Charities
question control of entry reform Two public health charities,
PharmacyHealthLink and the United Kingdom Public Health Association,
have questioned the value of bringing in reforms to control of entry
at a time when there is already great change being made in pharmacy ...more
765 OFT
recommendations How the high street may be affected if the
OFT recommendations are implemented is considered by Andrew Simms, policy
director at the new economics foundation ...more
766 Clare
Mackie appointed the first head of new pharmacy school at Medway Professor
Clare Mackie, currently at the school of pharmacy, The Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen, has been appointed the first head of school at
the new Medway school of pharmacy, which is due to open in September
2004 ...more
766 Use
medicines for treatment not just to enhance health Using medicines
to enhance health, rather than for treatment or prevention of disease,
is generally unacceptable, a survey of public attitudes in Denmark has
revealed ...more
766 IDIS
goes online IDIS Ltd, an international supplier of unlicensed
medicines for use on a named-patient basis, has launched an online ordering
service ...more
766 SSRIs
may reduce the effectiveness of tamoxifen Newer antidepressant
drugs such as paroxetine may reduce the effectiveness of tamoxifen by
interfering with the breakdown of the drug into its active metabolites,
suggest American researchers ...more |
767 Pharmacists
advised to read updated malaria prevention recommendations Pharmacists
are being urged to read new malaria prevention guidelines published by
the Health Protection Agency ...more
767 Scots to
cut postcode prescribing A strengthened role for the Scottish
Medicines Consortium should reduce postcode prescribing in Scotland,
it was announced last week ...more
767 SMC endorses
four and rejects four drugs The Scottish Medicines Consortium
has issued advice on eight medicines to the National Health Service in
Scotland ...more
767 NICE to produce
shorter guidelines Shorter versions of technology appraisals
and guidelines published by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
will be produced for health professionals too busy to read the full guidance,
NICE announced last week ...more
768 Children's
colds do not improve with echinacea Echinacea is not effective
in decreasing the severity or shortening the duration of upper respiratory
tract infections (URTIs) in children, according to the authors of a study
...more
768 Misleading
results from imported blood glucose testing strips Pharmacists
are advised to check their stocks of Lifescan OneTouch glucose test strips
and not to dispense plasma-calibrated test strips ...more
768 Updated HRT
prescribing advice Hormone replacement therapy should no longer
be recommended as first choice therapy for prevention of osteoporosis,
according to new advice from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency ...more
768 Nurse prescribing
extended Extended formulary nurse prescribers will be able
to prescribe six new medicines from 10 December ...more
768 Consider
cost-effectiveness National treatment guidelines should consider
cost-effectiveness, says the author of a study ...more
768 NICE restricts
use of anakinra Anakinra (Kineret), an interleukin-1 inhibitor,
is not recommended for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, except
in the context of a controlled, long-term clinical trial, says the National
Institute for Clinical Excellence ...more
769 Science minister
opens £6m Bradford institute Lord Sainsbury, Minister
for Science, officially opened the University of Bradford's new £6m
Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation (IPI) recently ...more
769 AAH takeover
on hold The planned takeover of East Anglian Pharmaceuticals
by national wholesaler AAH Pharmaceuticals has been referred to the Competition
Commission because the Office of Fair Trading fears a substantial reduction
of competition in East Anglia, along with parts of the east Midlands
and south east England ...more
769 Pharmacist
nets £150m PJB Publications, publisher of Scrip magazine
has been sold for £150m ...more
769 NPA criticises
offer The National Pharmaceutical Association has described
as “miserly” the Department of Health's offer of a 3.1 per
cent remuneration increase for pharmacy contractors in England ...more |
