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589 Queen approves Society’s petition for new Charter The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s petition for the granting of a new Royal Charter has been approved by the Queen
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589 New
contract funding details next week Contractors have one more
week to wait until they receive the full details of the new community
pharmacy contract ...more
589 Out-of-hours
service standards set for 2005 New minimum standards for out-of-hours
services have been published by the Department of Health ...more
589 Society
asks DoH for clarification on issue of personal control The
Royal Pharmaceutical Society has held a meeting with the chief pharmaceutical
officer for England, Jim Smith, to discuss the issue of personal control
in pharmacies ...more
590 Analysis
suggests HRT does not increase mortality Hormone replacement
therapy has been given a boost following a meta-analysis of pooled data
from 30 trials with over 26,000 participants. The data indicate that
HRT does not increase total mortality. What is more, in trials where
the mean age of women was below 60 years, HRT was associated with a reduction
in total mortality of 39 per cent ...more
590 Adverse
effects have most influence on choice of rheumatic drug for older people Many
older patients with rheumatoid arthritis would prefer to be treated with
a drug that has an unknown long-term safety profile but fewer immediate
adverse effects than a more established drug with a greater number of
adverse effects, even if these effects are reversible ...more
590 Conflicting
data on stroke risk and tamoxifen use Whether tamoxifen is
associated with an increased risk of stroke remains debatable following
publication of two recent studies ...more
591 UK pharmaceutical
public health specialist register on the cards A UK-wide voluntary
register for specialists in pharmaceutical public health could be created
next year. This is one of the options being considered by a new project
funded by the UK departments of health ...more
591 Call for
all adverse events to be declared before licensing In the
wake of the withdrawal of Vioxx (rofecoxib), an editorial in the BMJ calls for all data on serious adverse events to be made publicly available
as soon as clinical trials are completed, in order to allow systematic
reviews of such events to be undertaken before a drug is fully licensed
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591 White Paper
should propose ban on smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces The
Government should state its commitment to protect all members of the
public from second-hand smoke by announcing the introduction of smoke-free
workplaces and enclosed public places in the forthcoming White Paper
on public health ...more
591 Boots plans
to sell alcoholic drinks at Christmas Boots The Chemists plans
to sell alcoholic drinks from 300 of its larger stores. In order to do
so it will have to change the registration for its premises so only part
is the pharmacy. In addition, it will need alcohol licences as well ...more
592 LibDems
want dermatology training for pharmacists Training proposals
for pharmacists from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin are seen
by the Liberal Democrats as a way of improving skin care in Britain ...more
592 Numark
TV campaign Numark is launching its first national television
advertising campaign this month ...more
592 Pharmacy-based
diabetes service extended A pharmacist-run diabetes service
in Hillingdon has been extended this month following the success of its
pilot phase ...more
592 Web
users better informed but worse off People with chronic diseases
who use computer and web-based programmes to find information about their
conditions have worse clinical outcomes than those who do not, a new
report has found ...more
592 New
Ask About Medicines Week initiatives This year’s Ask About Medicines Week, which will take place from 1–6 November, will be launched by Lord Warner, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
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593 Less than
a third of licence applications given CSM approval on first consideration Less
than a third of applications for a UK medicines marketing authorisation
are given first-time approval from the Committee on Safety of Medicines
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593 English NHS
settles for EAN standard product coding A standard product
coding system — European Article Number Uniform Code Council (EAN.UCC)
coding — has been recommended as the principal product coding system
for use in the NHS in England ...more
593 Medicines
Box award Medicine Box Chemist in Leicester has been named
winner of the business, services and utilities category of the 2004 Marketing
Effectiveness Awards organised by Marketing Week ...more
593 Numark generics Numark
has launched CPXtra, a generics purchasing incentive scheme for Numark
pharmacies ...more
593 Mayne Pharma
alliance Mayne Pharma is developing a new aseptic manufacturing
unit that will be located in the pharmacy department at Aston University
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594 GSK asthma
trial suggests total control is possible A combination of
salmeterol and fluticasone propionate (Seretide) should be the preferred
treatment option for patients with uncontrolled asthma. This is the conclusion
of the GOAL (gaining optimal asthma control) study ...more
594 MRSA group
challenges government figures Government figures for the number
of deaths per year attributable to hospital-acquired infections are out
of date and underestimate the scale of the problem, says a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus patient support group ...more
594 MHRA upholds
three advertising complaints Three complaints about inappropriate
medicines advertising have been upheld by the Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Agency ...more
594 “Pharmacy” restaurant
items sell for £11m Fixtures and fittings from Damien
Hirst’s former restaurant “Pharmacy” were auctioned
at Sotheby’s this week, and fetched over £11m ...more
594 New chief
nurse appointed Chris Beasley has been appointed as the Department
of Health’s new Chief Nursing Officer following the departure of
Sarah Mullally last month ...more
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