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103 Society
national boards plan wins broad support National boards for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in England, Scotland and Wales have been broadly supported by the Company Chemists’ Association, the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists, the National Pharmacy Association and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
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103 Healthcare
Commission calls for pharmacist input into prescribing More
involvement by pharmacists in prescribing and regular medication reviews
have been called for by the Healthcare Commission this week ...more
103 New
scheme announced for essential small pharmacies Community
pharmacies currently in the Essential Small Pharmacy Scheme for England
must tell their primary care trusts by 30 September and complete a formal
application by 31 October if they want to transfer to the replacement
Essential Small Pharmacy Local Pharmaceutical Services contracts next
year ...more
104 Long-term
conditions panel excludes pharmacy A multi-professional advisory panel that will advise the Government on how to implement the long-term conditions national service framework was announced earlier this week by health minister Liam Byrne. However, the panel does not have pharmacy representation
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104 Medicines
Partnership to become part of NPC in 2006 Medicines Partnership
is to become part of the National Prescribing Centre, health minister
Jane Kennedy announced earlier this week ...more
104 NHS
has not embraced patient safety culture The NHS has not yet embraced the culture of patient safety, Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer for England, says in his annual report on the state of public health, published by the Department of Health this week
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104 MPs visit
teaching hospital to learn about pharmacy practice Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords visited the pharmacy department at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, on 18 July
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104 Antifungal
lacquer may be P Galderma has applied to the Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to have a version of Loceryl antifungal
nail lacquer (amorolfine 5 per cent) classified as a pharmacy medicine
under the name Curanail Lacquer ...more
105 Electronic
version of minor ailments service goes live Scotland’s minor ailments service took a step towards IT-enablement last week when the first electronic version went live
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105 British National
Formulary for Children is previewed ahead of its September launch A preview of the British National Formulary for Children (BNF-C) took place at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, last week, in the presence of the Princess Royal
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105 PILs “need
to communicate risks more clearly” Patient information leaflets (PILs) need to communicate the risks associated with medicines more clearly, according to a Committee on Safety of Medicines working group. They also need to be more readable, both in terms of type-size and their use of language
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105 Repeat dispensing
in England jumps by a quarter Between March and May, the number of items dispensed under the repeat dispensing arrangements in England jumped by a quarter, health minister Jane Kennedy said this week
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105 Mawdsleys
MUR guide A guide to how pharmacists can offer medicines use reviews (MURs) has been launched by Mawdsleys
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106 Pharmacists
in line for NHS national awards Pharmacists from the Midlands
and the south of England have won awards in regional finals of the Department
of Health’s NHS Health and Social Care awards ...more
106 Community
contract puts credibility on the line Community pharmacy contractors
in England and Wales need to act now if the sector is to maintain its
credibility ...more
106 Most PCTs
are making good progress on the contract Nearly 90 per cent
of primary care trusts in England are progressing well with generating
the structure and activity to implement the new contract, according to
research from Health Direction, a health care business intelligence company
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106 South west
London drop-in pharmacy project wins health promotion award A
project providing drop-in pharmacy sessions in community centres and
schools has been awarded the “Health promotion” award by
the South West London Strategic Health Authority last week ...more
107 NICE calls
for data to support Alzheimer’s drugs The National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has called for more data
from the manufacturers of donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine and memantine
before it publishes its final guidance on the use of these medicines
to treat Alzheimer’s disease ...more
107 Reconsider
recommendations for prescribing of antidepressants Current
recommendations for prescribing antidepressants need to be reconsidered,
according to an article in the BMJ last week ...more
107 Hepatitis
B and HIV treatments among those endorsed by SMC Seven more
drugs were accepted for use within NHS Scotland by the Scottish Medicines
Consortium this month ...more
108 Buccal route
is an alternative for treating acute seizures in children Buccal
midazolam is more effective than rectal diazepam for treating acute seizures
in children, a UK study has shown ...more
108 Public health
register to be set up after London bombs The Health Protection
Agency is to establish a register of those people who were physically
exposed to the effects of the explosions that occurred in London on 7
July ...more
108 NHS fraud
cut by £675m Counter-fraud work in the NHS has led
to an extra £675m being spent on patient care, the NHS Counter
Fraud and Security Management Service has claimed ...more
108 Withdraw
antiepileptic drugs slowly to avoid complications All patients
who stop taking antiepileptic drugs should do so gradually to avoid withdrawal
complications, suggest researchers ...more
108 Short course
for hepatitis C Patients with hepatitis C virus genotype
2 or 3 infection who are treated with peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin
and have undetectable HCV RNA after four weeks achieve high response
rates with 12 weeks of therapy and do not require the standard 24 weeks,
suggest researchers ...more
108 Lung cancer
survival rates Chemotherapy (vinorelbine plus cisplatin) given
after surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer improves survival
compared with surgery alone ...more
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