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267 Minister
fails to make expected announcements Health minister Rosie
Winterton made many positive comments about pharmacy in her speech to
the annual Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee dinner in Westminster
this week. However, she failed to make any concrete announcements on
either the contract or control of entry, despite previously suggesting
that she would ...more
267 Great
advances in development of new contract but still work to do Development
of the new contract for community pharmacists is well advanced but there
is still much work to do, Barry Andrews, chairman of the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee, told the annual PSNC dinner this week
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268 Detail
on new pharmacy contract in two months Community pharmacists
have two months to wait until they hear exactly what will be in their
new contract. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee confirmed
this week that roadshows about the detail of the new contract will start
after Easter ...more
268 Pharmacists
must be in pharmacies Representatives of local pharmaceutical
committees have said that a pharmacist should always be present in a
community pharmacy when it is open ...more
268 £2m subsidy for the NHS Community pharmacies in England and Wales will have given the NHS a £1.89m subsidy this financial year by failing to ensure that prescription charge exemption claims are properly completed
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268 No
change on PSNC levy A motion to change the levy that contractors pay the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee from one based on prescription volume to a one-fee-for-all approach was lost at the local pharmaceutical committee representatives’ conference in London this week
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269 Warning
over new wave of contract judicial reviews The Department
of Health has been warned that opening up competition for new pharmacy
contracts in England could lead to a new wave of judicial reviews as
companies seek to challenge and clarify the meaning of new tests to be
applied to contract applications ...more
269 IT development integral to pharmacy’s future IT will be an integral part of practice in the future, said Lindsay McClure, head of information services, Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, at the local pharmaceutical committee representatives’ conference held this week in London
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269 LPC
conference news in brief Patient choice / Staff training needed
/ Questions invited / Conflict of interest ...more
270 Technicians
an exception in regulation proposals Pharmacy technicians
are to be one of only two assistant professional groups to be regulated
by their parent professions ...more
270 There
is a lack of medicines information for people with learning disabilities,
says NPSA There is a lack of information about medicines for
people with learning disabilities, according to a report published last
week by the National Patient Safety Agency ...more
270 FDA
finalises barcode ruling to reduce medication errors The US
Food and Drug Administration has finalised a rule requiring bar codes
on the labels of most prescription medicines and certain over-the-counter
medicines. The rule also requires machine-readable information on container
labels of blood and blood components intended for transfusion ...more
270 NICE
process revised The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
has revised its clinical guideline development process ...more
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270 Moss stop
smoking campaign Moss Pharmacy has launched a smoking cessation
campaign as part of its coronary heart disease public health initiative
...more
271 Widespread
support for DoH vision for pharmacy Ideas outlined in the
Department of Health’s consultation document “A vision for
pharmacy in the new NHS” have received wide support. The responses
to the vision were published this week ...more
271 NHS careers
campaign embraces pharmacy A new NHS careers recruitment campaign
was launched in London this week by Health Secretary John Reid. Pharmacy
was represented by Deirdre Brady, medical admission pharmacist, and Katie
Fernandes, chief medicines management technician, both from Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital, and Tess Fenn, chief pharmacy technician, Guy’s
and St Thomas’ Hospital ...more
271 Get planning
now for the new contract, says UniChem Pharmacists need to
start planning for the implementation of the new contract now, according
to Mike Smith, chairman of UniChem. Although a growing number of pharmacists
are getting prepared, others have not yet realised the changes they will
need to make, he said at a press briefing last week ...more
271 First supplementary
prescribers in England pass their exams The first pharmacists
in England to become supplementary prescribers are likely to come from
Sunderland University ...more
272 Caution over
fluids advice in respiratory infection Advice to drink extra
fluids during acute respiratory infection may be flawed, according to
researchers ...more
272 Research
showing efficacy of steroids in chronic pulmonary disease may be flawed An
epidemiologist from Montreal, Canada, claims to have found a “subtle
but important” bias in studies demonstrating the efficacy of steroids
in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...more
272 Aerosol ciclosporin
improves lung transplant survival Aerosolised ciclosporin,
given with conventional immunosuppression to lung transplant patients
with bronchiolitis obliterans, provides a survival advantage over conventional
therapy alone, US research indicates ...more
272 Better use
of data could have predicted HRT risk earlier The risks associated
with hormone replacement therapy would have been revealed earlier if
better use had been made of existing evidence. This is the view of researchers
from Oxford and Finland who suggest that many women were needlessly exposed
to an increased risk of heart disease while taking HRT ...more
273 Etanercept
combination shows promise for rheumatoid arthritis A combination
of etanercept (Enbrel) and methotrexate is more effective than either
drug alone in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a new study shows ...more
273 High vs low
dose ramipril High doses of ramipril are preferable to low
doses in the prevention of cardiovascular and renal events in high risk
patients, say researchers ...more
273 Statins and
grapefruit Patients treated with simvastatin and other statins
metabolised by the isoenzyme CYP3A4 should be advised to avoid drinking
grapefruit juice, say German researchers ...more
273 Smoking and
blindness Smokers are up to four times as likely to become
blind in later life from age-related macular degeneration than non-smokers,
researchers reveal ...more
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