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463 Pharmacist is made a partner in Devon GP dispensing practice A pharmacist has been made a partner in a rural doctors’ practice in Devon
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463 MHRA
warning on special offer medicine promotions Pharmaceutical companies and retailers have been warned by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency not to promote medicines using multibuy offers, such as “buy one, get one free” or “three for the price of two”, if the products concerned include aspirin, paracetamol or ibuprofen
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463 Kirit
Patel becomes a Government adviser on better regulation Kirit
Patel, chief executive of the Day Lewis pharmacy group, has been appointed
to the Better Regulation Task Force ...more
463 Pharmacy
input into primary care grows Pharmacists' and community pharmacy's
growing role in the NHS have been highlighted in a Department of Health
report on primary care ...more
464 Welsh
report calls for more powers for Assembly Welsh Assembly powers
to develop health services in response to the needs of people in Wales
have come a step closer with publication of the Richard Commission report.
The report examines the future of Welsh devolution and was presented
to the National Assembly for Wales last month ...more
464 Smoking
is still the number one threat to health in Scotland Smoking remains the biggest threat to Scotland’s health, according to Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Mac Armstrong
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464 UniChem
develops standard operating procedures template Pharmacists
will be able to develop their own standard operating procedures using
a CD-ROM template launched this week by UniChem ...more
464 Public
health website for pharmacists launched PharmacyHealthLink
has set up a new website to provide information for pharmacists and other
public health professionals ...more
464 Numark
to open pharmacy convenience store Numark Pharmacy and Costcutter
have collaborated to launch a co-branded convenience shop with an in-store
pharmacy ...more
465 Shortcomings
revealed in trials of antidepressants in children A review
of clinical trials that evaluated the safety and efficacy of antidepressants
in children has found shortcomings in the way the trials were conducted
and in the way investigators reported the results ...more
465 Progress is
slow for acute mental health care services, despite national guidelines Little
progress has been made on the state of UK hospital care for people with
psychiatric illness, despite 650 national strategies, guidelines, frameworks
and protocols issued by the Government over the past five years ...more
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465 Scottish
Dump campaign A national Dump campaign is to be launched shortly
by the Scottish Executive Health Department ...more
465 Nurse prescribing
extended Nurse prescribers will be allowed to prescribe a
further 60 medicines used to treat life threatening conditions under
proposals issued by the Department of Health ...more
465 Corticosteroids
for knee OA Injections of corticosteroids into the knee can
improve symptoms of osteoarthritis, a review of trials shows ...more
465 Diabetes
NSF progress report A report outlining progress made in implementing
the National Service Framework for Diabetes has been published by the
Department of Health ...more
465 Co-op raises
coeliac awareness Lincoln Co-operative Pharmacy is working
with the charity Coeliac UK to help raise awareness of coeliac disease
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465 Sepsis guidance
on web Guidance on the clinical management of severe sepsis
and septic shock has been published online on the website of the European
Society of Intensive Care Medicine ...more
466 Plan to allow
prison officers to supply medicines Proposals to allow prison
officers to supply general sale list medicines to inmates have been issued
for consultation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency ...more
466 Annual vaccination
for animals is still appropriate, says BVA Animals should
still be vaccinated annually, the British Veterinary Association has
said, despite a debate that has raged within the veterinary profession
over the past three months ...more
466 New management
structure at the MHRA A new management structure has been
introduced at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
one year after the MHRA was formed by merging the Medicines Control Agency
and the Medical Devices Agency ...more
466 MeReC concludes
evidence for extra benefits of latest antihistamines is lacking There
is insufficient evidence to support the use of third generation antihistamines,
such as desloratadine (Neoclarityn) and levocetirizine (Xyzal) over second
generation antihistamines (eg, loratadine and cetirizine), according
to the latest issue of the MeReC Bulletin ...more
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