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669 Branded medicines’ prices to be cut by 7 per cent Branded medicines will go down 7 per cent in price from 1 January 2005, saving the NHS an expected £1.8bn over the next five years
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669 New
contract could result in problems for Saturday services Primary
care trusts in England could face a crisis next year over the provision
of a community pharmacy service on Saturdays ...more
669 MHRA
consults patients about ADR reporting The Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Agency has written to hundreds of patients inviting
them to take part in a survey about the reporting of adverse drug reactions
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670 Wanless
calls for evidence to back self-care agenda Primary care providers
should be encouraged to test whether, given access to more information,
people want to have a greater input in managing their own health, according
to Derek Wanless, a former chief executive of NatWest bank and health
service adviser ...more
670 Government
officials mark launch of Ask About Medicines Week Health ministers
and chief pharmaceutical officers for England and Wales marked the launch
of Ask About Medicines Week earlier this week ...more
670 Half
of GPs want bigger role for pharmacists in diabetes Pharmacists
should play an expanded role in the management of type 2 diabetes to
relieve GP workload. This is the opinion of 48 per cent of GPs surveyed
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670 Justify
retention fee increases, says NPA Increases in the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society personal and premises retention fees need to be justified, says
the National Pharmaceutical Association ...more
671 Two
weeks of debate before contract ballot Contractors have two
weeks to decide which way to vote in the ballot about the new community
pharmacy contract in England and Wales. The deadline for returning ballot
papers is 22 November ...more
671 NPA
wants contract exit payments to be held over for three years Exit
payments under the new pharmacy contract should be available after three
years, and not in the first year, according to the National Pharmaceutical
Association ...more
671 CCA
companies will vote independently on contract Company Chemists’ Association members have denied that they will exercise a block vote on the new contract
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671 DoH
publishes a guide on the new contract for PCTs A guide that
sets out support available to primary care trusts about the new pharmacy
contract was published this week ...more
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672 CSM issues
safety update on grapefruit and statins Updated advice on
the risks of drinking grapefruit juice while taking statins, issued by
the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory Agency, and guidance on the risk of venous thromboembolism
when taking oral contraceptives ...more
672 Patients
need more information about complementary medicines Patients
are still not getting enough information about the use of complementary
medicines and may not feel able to discuss the matter with health care
professionals, new research has shown ...more
672 National
patient group direction website launched A website that will
form a national resource on patient group directions (PGDs) is to be
launched within the next few months ...more
672 DTB cautious
on probiotics Optimum regimens for probiotics need to be clarified
before these products can be advocated for treatment of gastrointestinal
disorders, says the latest issue of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin ...more
673 European
Court threat to parallel importing Parallel importing is likely
to be dealt a heavy blow in the European Court following the release
of an advocate general’s legal opinion that companies can limit
supplies to countries where governments keep prices artificially low
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673 Patented
medicines will be allowed to be copied for use in developing countries ...more
673 Mawdsleys
offers help in bidding for service contracts A scheme to help
independent pharmacies bid for NHS service contracts from primary care
trusts has been launched by the wholesaler Mawdsleys ...more
673 Pharmacists
CANDO! Examples of best practice in primary care have been
published by the NHS Alliance and the National Primary and Care Trust
Development Programme (NatPaCT) ...more
673 Society evidence
session ...more
673 Vantage training Vantage
Pharmacy’s dispensing assistant course has been accredited by the
College of Pharmacy Practice ...more
674 No long-term
benefit from HIV treatment interruption “Structured
treatment interruption” in which highly active antiretroviral therapy
(HAART) is intermittently stopped is a practice which does not appear
to provide long-term benefit to patients infected with HIV ...more
674 Analgesic
use in pregnancy linked to increased risk of schizophrenia Children
born to women who took analgesics in the second trimester of pregnancy
may have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia, say Danish researchers
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