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129 Pharmacy
should be represented at senior levels NHS boards should ensure
that pharmacy is represented at senior levels of decision-making, according
to a report published by Audit Scotland this week ...more
129 Mistakes
in identification put patients at risk There is a lack of systematic and standardised processes to support the identification of patients so that health care staff can match them to their care, treatment and records, a report on patient safety incidents in England and Wales, published by the National Patient Safety Agency this week, has found
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129 Domiciliary
oxygen change delayed until February 2006 New arrangements for the supply of oxygen to patients in the community in England are likely to be delayed until February next year, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has warned
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129 DoH consults
again on charges for pharmacy contract applications Primary care trusts in England will be able to levy charges for pharmacy contract applications if Department of Health proposals go through
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130 Information
on choice of contraception is lacking Raising the profile of different methods of contraception and changing prescribing practices could result in annual savings to the NHS of approximately £33m, according to research commissioned by the fpa
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130 OTC switches
likely to benefit elderly patients For elderly patients treating self-limiting conditions the benefits of switching medicines from prescription only to over-the-counter status are likely to outweigh the risks, say researchers. Nevertheless, the risks of OTC treatment for long-term conditions still need to be evaluated
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130 National
toolkit to assess implementation of contract A quality assurance monitoring toolkit to help primary care trusts assess compliance with the new community pharmacy contract in England is being developed by the NHS Primary Care Contracting Team. The toolkit will be a nationally designed and agreed framework with a core set of indicators and quality markers
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130 PSNC issues
advice on using compliance aids Pharmacy contractors must
make their own decisions about whether to dispense using compliance aids
in order to meet their obligations under the Disability Discrimination
Act 1995, says the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee ...more
130 MURs in all
Tesco pharmacies Medicines use reviews are now being offered
in all Tesco Pharmacies in England and Wales ...more
131 Consultant
pharmacist appointed in critical care Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed what is thought to be the first consultant pharmacist recruited using the Department of Health’s recent guidance
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131 General Dental
Council gets extended regulatory powers New powers have been
given to the General Dental Council to make sure that dentists registered
in the UK are fit to practise and maintain satisfactory standards ...more
131 Diagnostic
testing to be piloted in Manchester pharmacies A pharmacy-based diagnostic service is to be piloted in 22 community pharmacies by Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority later this year. Training for pharmacy staff has now begun
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131 Deadline
set for fitness-to-practise declarations to PCTs in England Pharmacy contractors in England have until 3 October to make fitness-to-practise declarations to their primary care trusts. Contractors with multiple contracts only have to send the information to the PCT in which their registered office is based
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132 Carers and
liver patients added to flu target lists People with chronic
liver disease and people who are the main carers for elderly or disabled
persons are to be offered influenza immunisation this year as part of
the flu immunisation campaigns in England and Wales ...more
132 Two million
doses of H5N1 bird-flu vaccine ordered by UK Government Two
million doses of vaccine against the H5N1 avian influenza virus are to
be ordered by the UK Government ...more
132 Echinacea
has no clinically significant effects on common cold Extracts
from Echinacea angustifolia roots have no clinically significant effects
on common cold infection or illness, according to data published this
week ...more
133 Two cancer
drugs referred early for NICE evaluation The National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence is to evaluate trastuzumab (Herceptin)
for the treatment of early stage breast cancer and bortezomib (Velcade)
for the treatment of multiple myeloma in advance of its 12th wave work
programme ...more
133 NICE to consider
decision support systems Ways of evaluating computerised decision
support systems are to be tested by the National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence in a joint pilot study with NHS Con-necting for
Health (the organisation responsible for the Government’s national
programme for IT) ...more
133 Advice on
national IT programme offered to pharmacists UniChem is offering
IT advice to pharmacists to help them meet the demands of the Government’s
national programme for IT ...more
133 Beta-blockers
for PTSD? Beta-blockers interfere with the way the brain stores
memories and could be used to treat sufferers of post-traumatic stress
disorder, according to a report in Nature this week ...more
133 Post-herpetic
neuralgia Tricyclic antidepressants and some opioids are as
effective for treating post-herpetic neuralgia as newer drugs such as
gabapentin, tramadol and pregabalin, the authors of a systematic review
conclude ...more
133 Vardenafil
works for 10 hours Vardenafil (Levitra) is effective for up
to 10 hours after administration, results presented at the World Congress
of Sexology in Montreal earlier this month have shown ...more
133 Carboplatin
versus radiotherapy A single injection of carboplatin is an
effective adjuvant treatment for stage I seminoma with similar outcomes
to adjuvant radiotherapy, new data show ...more
134 Parliamentary
skin group calls for pharmacists’ views on services The
All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin has launched an inquiry into the
current state of dermatology services and is calling for pharmacists’ views
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134 Patients
to benefit from new industry-NHS framework A revised framework
outlining ways in which the pharmaceutical industry can co-operate with
the NHS has been launched ...more
134 Stopping
smoking becomes more popular There has been a 45 per cent
increase in the number of people claiming to have given up smoking in
England ...more
134 TEVA takes
over IVAX Generics company TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries,
based in Israel, is to buy the US IVAX Corporation ...more
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