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257 Consultation
on independent prescribing starts Consultation on independent
prescribing by pharmacists throughout the UK is being undertaken by the
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the Department
of Health, Health Secretary John Reid announced this week ...more
257 Scottish
bodies give evidence on new Bill Pharmacy organisations in
Scotland have been giving evidence over the past two weeks to the Scottish
Executive about the new Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill.
They were generally supportive of the principles of the Bill but raised
some questions around the fine detail ...more
257 Draft
guidance on pharmacy regulations published Draft guidance
on the forthcoming Statutory Instrument that will implement the new community
pharmacy contract has been published by the Department of Health ...more
257 Contract
specifications delay Specifications for enhanced services
to be provided under the new pharmacy contract will not be published
until May this year at the earliest, The Journal understands ...more
258 Pharmacists
to be called upon during flu pandemic Pharmacists may have
a key role to play in administering any new vaccine that becomes available
during an influenza pandemic, a Government report confirmed this week
...more
258 Heart failure service extended to Glasgow’s community pharmacists Community
pharmacists across Glasgow will start offering a heart failure service
next week. Pharmacists working in GP surgeries and in secondary care
in the city have been involved in a heart failure service for some time
...more
258 Study
questions stroke link to atypical antipsychotics Older patients
with dementia who receive atypical antipsychotics to treat their behavioural
and psychological symptoms appear to have a similar risk of ischaemic
stroke as those receiving typical antipsychotics ...more
259 West Yorkshire
centre becomes first to start ETP A pharmacy and medical centre
in Keighley, West Yorkshire, are the first to go live with electronic
transmission of prescriptions ...more
259 Good business
case needed for independent sector to provide primary care services Government
proposals to encourage the independent sector to provide services in
primary care will only happen if there is a good business case, the Company
Chemists Association warned this week ...more
259 Electronic
transmission roll out must be equitable Roll out of electronic
transmission of prescriptions must be equitable, with all community pharmacies
having the opportunity to participate, the National Pharmaceutical Association
has warned ...more
260 Security
device for lone NHS workers launched Personal security devices
are to be made available as part of a strategy to protect NHS lone workers
from verbal and physical abuse, John Reid, Secretary of State for Health,
announced this week ...more
260 Violence
risk in pharmacies needs assessing All pharmacies should have
to assess the risk of violence towards staff and make their findings
available to workers ...more
260 NHS Education
for Scotland launches strategic plan NHS Education for Scotland
(NES) launched a three-year strategic work plan in Edinburgh this week
...more
260 Pharmacies
can keep premium rate numbers Community pharmacies will soon
be the only NHS contractors in England to be allowed to use premium rate
telephone numbers for patients to contact them ...more
260 Inquiry into
Shipman case pharmacist adjourned On 24 February the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Statutory Committee adjourned its inquiry into a pharmacist criticised during the Shipman Inquiry
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260 Consultation
on vet medicines Consultation has started on legal steps to
break the complex monopoly operated by the manufacturers of animal medicines
and veterinary surgeons over supplies of veterinary medicines ...more
260 Investment
in NHS Scotland NHS boards in Scotland have been given a 10 per cent increase in funding for 2005–06 compared with the allocations for 2004–05
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260 AAH
creates contract toolkit AAH Pharmaceuticals has created a
toolkit to help its members deliver the new community pharmacy contract
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Local pharmaceutical committees' annual conference
261 Violence
against pharmacists is taken seriously Violence and the threat
of violence against pharmacists is taken extremely seriously, health
minister Rosie Winterton said at the 23rd annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee in London this week ...more
261 Urgent dispensing
fee lost The additional fee payable for dispensing prescriptions
marked “urgent” has been dropped in the new pharmacy contract,
Sue Sharpe, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee, announced at the local pharmaceutical committees’ conference
this week ...more
261 Pharmacy
contractors want to keep the pharmacist supervision requirements Representatives
of pharmacy owners have made it clear that they went to retain the requirement
that pharmacists supervise everything that happens in their pharmacies
...more
261 PSNC levy
up 6.6 per cent A levy increase averaging 6.6 per cent is
being sought by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee because
of the need to commission external experts to analyse the market and
the need to build a new information technology system, Sue Sharpe, chief
executive of the PSNC, explained at the local pharmaceutical committees’ conference
this week ...more
262 Contractors
want legal advice from the PSNC Pharmacy contractors have
called on the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee to give legal
advice on service level agreements and contracts ...more
262 Disability
provision in pharmacy services must be on a case-by-case basis The
level of “reasonable adjustment” necessary to enable someone
with a disability to use a pharmacy service must be made on a individual
basis, Sue Sharpe, chief executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee, said at the local pharmaceutical committees’ conference
...more
262 Big increase
in preregistration training grant The preregistration training
grant will increase from £4,910 to £16,440, Sue Sharpe, chief
executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee said at
the local pharmaceutical committees’ conference ...more
262 Small pharmacies
becoming unsaleable Small pharmacies have been made unsaleable
by the new pharmacy contract, this week’s conference of local pharmaceutical
committees has been told ...more
Other news
263 Evidence
is lacking for newer eczema treatments Data on the comparative
use of eczema treatments is lacking, making it hard for clinicians to
judge when use of newer treatments would be appropriate, UK researchers
say ...more
263 Factor VII
improves outcome in stroke Patients with intracerebral haemorrhage,
a cause of stroke, have improved clinical outcomes if they receive early
treatment with the haemostatic agent recombinant activated factor VII
...more
263 Half of drug
histories taken on admission inaccurate Health care systems
need to explore ways to improve the accuracy of patients’ medication
histories taken on admission to hospital, say researchers. This could
involve pharmacist consultations or computer systems that allow transfer
of medication histories between primary and secondary care ...more
263 Passive smoking
kills at least 30 people in UK daily Passive smoking kills
at least 30 people every day in the UK, according to a new study ...more
263 Arrhythmia
NSF Publication of a national service framework on arrhythmias
was expected this week after The Journal went to press ...more
263 Supply of
MS drug Supply of natalizumab, a multiple sclerosis drug,
has been suspended by its manufacturers ...more
263 Inpatient
quit counselling Patients who receive smoking cessation counselling
while in hospital following a myocardial infarction are less likely to
die within the first two months of admission than patients who do not
receive counselling, say researchers ...more
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