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109 SOS
group starts legal action over Charter petition The Save Our
Society group has started legal proceedings against named members of
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council over the Council's petition
for a new Royal Charter. However, the President has said that the Council
remains confident of its position ...more
109 Counter-petition
lodged with Privy Council A formal counter-petition against
the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's petition for a new
Royal Charter has been lodged with the Privy Council. It is unprecedented
in recent years for the Privy Council to receive such a counter-petition
...more
109 AGM
proposed motion The Council's petition is the subject of
a proposed motion for the annual general meeting of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society in May ...more
110 Work
with pharmacists for better repeat prescribing, GPs advised General
practitioners and their staff should work with local community pharmacists
to improve the quality of repeat prescribing schemes, a new guide from
the National Prescribing Centre says ...more
110 GP
software problems could hamper repeat dispensing Problems
with the EMIS software used by most GPs in England could hamper the roll
out of the second wave of repeat dispensing pilots ...more
110 A
few patients make lots of medicine returns A few patients
return a large proportion of the unused drugs handed in to pharmacies,
Swedish researchers have found ...more
110 Fujitsu
wins Southern records Fujitsu Alliance has been awarded an £896m contract for the NHS Care Records Service Southern area
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110 Winter
treatment campaign Community pharmacy is again part of the
Department of Health's £1.8m advertising campaign urging patients
to choose the right way to get treatment from the NHS this winter ...more
111 New
pharmacist prescribers come a step closer this week The first
pharmacist supplementary prescribers were due formally to complete their
courses on 30 January, after The Journal went to press. However, it will
be at least six weeks before they can write and sign their first prescriptions
...more
111 NHSnet
link up set for all Scottish pharmacies by March 2005 All
community pharmacies in Scotland will be connected to the NHSnet by the
end of March 2005. The planned roll-out of the connections was announced
this week by the Scottish Executive Health Department ...more
111 “White list” to control drugs bill in Guernsey Legislation
to curb Guernsey's rising drugs bill came into effect on the Channel
Island on 1 January ...more
111 Further
wave of LPS pilots gain approval A further wave of local pharmaceutical
services pilots has been approved by the Department of Health this month
...more
111 Minor
ailments toolkit for PCTs launched by NPA How to introduce
minor ailments schemes into community pharmacies is the topic of a toolkit
just launched by the National Pharmaceutical Association, in conjunction
with Keele University and Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Strategic Health
Authority ...more |
112 Pegylated
interferon alfa should be used in hep C Combination therapy
with peginterferon alfa and ribavirin should be used to treat adults
with moderate to severe chronic hepatitis C, says the National Institute
for Clinical Excellence in guidance issued this week ...more
112 NICE guideline
defines place of drug therapy in eating disorders Recommendations
for the management of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and atypical
eating disorders were made this week by the National Institute for Clinical
Excellence ...more
112 Prevention
and management of foot problems covered by final NICE diabetes guideline Prevention
and management of foot problems — the final part of the National
Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines on type 2 diabetes — has
been published this week ...more
112 Bird flu
travel advice People travelling to areas with outbreaks of
avian influenza (bird flu) are being advised to avoid bird markets, farms
and contact with live poultry ...more
112 Childhood
cancer guideline A clinical guideline on providing the most
effective care for long-term survivors of childhood cancer has been published
by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network ...more
113 Traditional
dosing strategy for asthma challenged Doubling the dose of
inhaled corticosteroids does not seem to be an effective way to prevent
asthma exacerbations ...more
113 Benefits
of SSRIs in young people outweigh the risk of suicide, suggests US taskforce Benefits
of using SSRIs to treat young people with depression outweigh the risks
of suicidal thinking or suicide attempts, according to the authors of
a US report ...more
113 Respiratory
drugs frequently used off-label in children Over a third of
children's prescriptions for respiratory medicines are for drugs not
licensed for paediatric use or for drugs being used outside their licensed
indications (off-label), a Dutch study has shown ...more
114 Self care
promoted by think tank Barry Andrews, chairman of the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee, Rosie Winterton, Minister for Health,
and Philip Collins, director of the Social Market Foundation, discussed
the role of community pharmacists in supporting self-care at a foundation
meeting in London this week ...more
114 Lipids should
be lowered for dialysis patients Patients with end-stage renal
disease should receive aggressive treatment to control cholesterol levels,
despite there being an inverse association between higher cholesterol
levels and mortality in this patient population, researchers suggest
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114 Mixed results
for bone effects of statins Observational studies suggest
that women taking statins to treat hyperlipidaemia have a lower risk
of hip and non-spine fractures, but post hoc analyses of cardiovascular
trials do not, say researchers ...more
114 Sanofi makes
bid for Aventis Sanofi-Synthelabo made a €47.8bn (£33bn)
bid for Aventis on 26 January. If successful, it would create a pharmaceutical
company that was the largest in Europe and the third biggest in the world
...more
114 New pharmacy
schools seek applications from students Students are being
invited to apply for places at three new schools of pharmacy, at Anglia
Polytechnic University, Cambridge, Kingston University, south west London,
and the universities of Kent and Greenwich at Medway, to start this autumn
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