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667 New
focus on long-term conditions for NHS Scotland Pharmacists
in Scotland will have a key role to play in the future NHS, as announced
last week ...more
667 Society
asked to join advisory group on non-medical regulation The
Royal Pharmaceutical Society has been invited to join the advisory group
reviewing non-medical professional regulation, the Society announced
this week ...more
667 CCA
calls for closer working between GPs and pharmacy GPs should meet with representatives from their “top five” pharmacies at least annually to agree three areas to improve patient care, says the Company Chemists’ Association
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668 Pharmacist
jailed for six months for ESPS fraud Surrey pharmacist Rajiv Kumar Sarna, who owns pharmacies in Reading, Ascot and Basingstoke, was sentenced last week to six months imprisonment for defrauding the NHS of £23,000. Mr Sarna made false claims for support under the Essential Small Pharmacies Scheme
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668 New
rental charge for oxygen cylinders BOC Medical will introduce a rental charge of £5.25 per cylinder per month for Drug Tariff oxygen cylinders (AF, F and DF sizes) from 1 June, the company announced last week
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668 European
Court rejects parallel import case Parallel importers have
claimed victory after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declined to
rule on a case referred by Greek authorities ...more
668 VAT
and the new contract HM Revenue and Customs has given preliminary
consideration to whether or not VAT should be levied on services provided
under the new community pharmacy contract, and it is in discussion with
the Department of Health, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
says ...more
668 Lloydspharmacy
reveals model pharmacies Lloydspharmacy has unveiled the first
of four model pharmacies that the company says will be used as benchmarks
for the rest of its stores ...more
669 Society
issues response to the fifth Shipman report The Royal Pharmaceutical
Society has issued its response to the Fifth Report of the Shipman Inquiry
chaired by Dame Janet Smith ...more
669 Error rates
in community pharmacy leave room for improvement Error rates
in community pharmacy are low, but could still be improved, the final
report of “Patient safety in community pharmacy — understanding
errors and managing risk” by the Community Pharmacy Practice Research
Consortium has shown ...more
669 Hospital
pharmacy is formally designated as a department of the University of
Nottingham’s school of pharmacy The pharmacy department
at the Queen’s Medical Centre University Hospital has been
formally designated as a department of the school of pharmacy at the
University of Nottingham ...more
669 Research
team wins award A team at Cardiff University’s school of pharmacy has won an award for its evaluation of whether community pharmacies can provide an adequate service for a bilingual society
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670 Improve access
to contraception services for young people Pharmacists need to consider what more they can do to improve access to contraception services for young people, according to Karen O’Brien, chronic disease and medicine management lead, Central Manchester Primary Care Trust, and joint founder project manager of the Manchester, Salford and Trafford emergency hormonal contraception scheme
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670 DTB challenges
first-line use of certain anti-hypertensives First-line use of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-II receptor antagonists in patients with type 2 diabetes who also have microalbuminuria has been called into question by the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
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670 SIGN issues
guidance on bipolar affective disorder Lithium should be used
as the maintenance treatment of choice after a diagnosis of bipolar affective
disorder, according to guidance published by the Scottish Intercollegiate
Guidelines Network this week ...more
670 Variation
in blood clotting gene alters response to warfarin Variations in a gene involved in blood clotting appear to play a key role in a patient’s response to warfarin and may be a useful dose predictor, new research suggests
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670 Corticosteroids
raise death rate in head injuries by 15 pc Use of corticosteroids to treat head injury is associated with a 15 per cent higher risk of death within six months compared with placebo, follow-up data from the CRASH (corticosteroid randomisation after significant head injury) trial have shown
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670 Prescription
charging The Scottish Executive has hinted that abolition
of NHS prescription charges in Scotland is unlikely ...more
670 NES PGD website NHS
Education for Scotland has launched a patient group direction (PGD) educational
website ...more
670 Antenatal
betamethasone Antenatal exposure to betamethasone does not
worsen cardiovascular risk factors (although it may result in insulin
resistance) in individuals whose mothers received the drug to prevent
neonatal respiratory distress syndrome as part of a clinical trial ...more
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671 Some British
South Asian patients may miss doses Some British South Asian
patients with type 2 diabetes make deliberate efforts to reduce their
intake of oral hypoglycaemic medicines without being advised to, a qualitative
study has found ...more
671 Pharmacy
diabetes scheme benefits patients A pharmacist-run diabetes
programme has been shown to improve patients’ perceptions of
their condition and their medicines ...more
671 World No
Tobacco Day focuses on role of health professionals in helping smokers
stop The involvement of health care professionals, including
pharmacists, in helping people give up smoking was the theme of this
year’s World No Tobacco Day, launched earlier this week in London
...more
671 Men’s
health promotion window display competition kicks off Pharmacy
staff have been invited to take part in a competition aimed at promoting
men’s health ...more
671 Easy access
to NRT can improve quit rate Easy access to free nicotine
replacement therapy patches can substantially increase the likelihood
of quitting smoking, a study in The Lancet concludes ...more
672 Several new
therapeutic classes to go OTC this year By the end of the
year pharmacists will be able to sell a number of medicines for conditions
that have only previously been treatable with medicines prescribed by
doctors ...more
672 UK paediatric
incentive consultation starts Consultation has started in
the UK on European plans intended to make more properly tested medicines
available for paediatric use so that children do not have to be prescribed
unlicensed or off-label medicines ...more
672 New European
review started for fluoxetine European medicines regulators
have started a new review of the use of fluoxetine (Prozac) in children
and adolescents ...more
672 Formulary
expansion for independent nurse prescribers More than 50 new
medicines to treat an additional 32 conditions were added to the nurse
prescribers’ extended formulary at the beginning of May ...more
672 Pharmaceutical
parts of Scottish health bill debated Amendments to the pharmaceutical
care part of the new Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Bill
were considered by the Scottish Executive’s health committee last
week ...more
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