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Enhanced services expected to cause problems Few community
pharmacists in England are likely to find it easy to deliver enhanced
services under the new NHS pharmacy contract ...more
327 NHS staff
in favour of planned IT changes Members of NHS staff are generally
supportive of the national programme for IT and consider it an important
priority for the NHS, according to new survey conducted by MORI Social
Research Institute on behalf of NHS Connecting for Health ...more
327 Extra hours
cannot be enforced, PCTs are told Primary care trusts have
been told by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the
Department of Health that they cannot hold pharmacies that have declared
core opening hours of more than 40 per week to their commitment. ...more
327 Properly tested
medicines for children come a step closer Better development
of medicines for children has come a step closer with the acceptance by
the European Parliament of a proposal to give extended patents to medicines
that are tested in children ...more
327 Oxygen
High pressure oxygen cylinders with integrated headsets are to become
prescribable for the last few months that community pharmacies will provide
home oxygen services in England ...more
328 New cut-down-then-stop
smoking strategy launched Until now, smokers wanting to quit
using nicotine replacement therapy have been advised that total abstinence
from cigarettes is the only option. A new strategy to stop smoking, which
involves cutting down before stopping, has been launched ...more
328 SMC recommends
use of six medicines in NHS Scotland Six further medicines
have been recommended for use in NHS Scotland by the Scottish Medicines
Consortium this week ...more
328 Pharmacists
trained to give flu vaccines Pharmacists working within City
and Hackney Primary Care Trust were trained to administer influenza vaccines
last week in an attempt to improve uptake of the vaccine in east London
during this year’s annual flu campaign ...more
329 New proposals
to encourage use of patient packs Dispensers could be allowed
to round the quantity ordered on a prescription, in order to enable original
patient pack dispensing, under proposals put out to consultation by the
Department of Health ...more
329 More generic
consultations announced Two further rounds of consultation
on the reimbursement of generic medicines have been announced by the Department
of Health ...more
329 Prescription
pricing accuracy Pharmacy contractors in England are losing
less money each year as a result of increasing accuracy at the Prescription
Pricing Authority ...more
329 NHS medicines
bill declines NHS spending on medicines in the UK has grown
more slowly than the rest of NHS spending since 1999, according to the
latest Compendium of Health Statistics launched by the Office of Health
Economics ...more
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330 Pioglitazone
of benefit in high-risk diabetes patients Treating patients
at high risk of a second cardiac event with pioglitazone (Actos) leads
to a 16 per cent reduction in the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction
or death ...more
330
Global type 2 diabetes guidelines launched Global guidelines
for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes, have been launched
...more
330 Diabetes classifications
blurred and need updating Distinctions between juvenile type
1 and type 2 diabetes are being blurred and their classifications need
to be re-explored ...more
330 Positive results
for Exubera Exubera, an inhaled rapid-acting insulin preparation,
is as effective as subcutaneous insulin in achieving glycaemic control
in patients with type 1 diabetes, new data show ...more
330 Shortage of
pharmacists in Africa for HIV/AIDS treatment A year-long FIP
survey of health professionals in Africa for the International Pharmaceutical
Federation has revealed a critical shortage of pharmacists in most African
countries with a high burden of HIV/AIDS ...more
330 Investing
saves money Increased prescribing of statins and more intensive
management of diabetes could save the NHS in Scotland money in the long
term ...more
331 New pharmacy
group for independents to be born Formation of a new Independent
Pharmacy Federation to represent almost half of the UK’s community
pharmacy contractors is imminent...more
331
Scotland gets workforce planning framework A framework to enable
the NHS in Scotland to plan its workforce was published recently by the
Scottish Executive ...more
331 Welsh Assembly
consults on control of entry Proposed changes to the control
of entry regulations in Wales have been outlined in a consultation document
published by the Welsh Assembly Government ...more
331 OFT to investigate
national drug price controls scheme An investigation into the
operation of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme has been launched
by the Office of Fair Trading ...more
332 Quarter of
MRSA infections in just-admitted patients Nearly a quarter
of all hospital patients with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus
aureus have just been admitted, according to new data ...more
332 New guidance
to tackle antibiotic-resistant infections published for use in Scotland
How the NHS in Scotland can improve antibiotic prescribing and reduce
the prevalence of resistant infections has been set out in new guidance
...more
332 Risk-treatment
mismatch in heart failure Patients with heart failure at high
risk of death are least likely to receive treatment with angiotensin-converting
enzymes, angiotensin II receptor blockers and beta-blockers, say Canadian
researchers ...more
332 Clopidogrel
pretreatment of benefit in PCI, data suggest Pretreatment with
clopidogrel in patients with recent ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
(STEMI) undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces
the incidence of cardiovascular death or ischaemic complications without
a significant increase in bleeding, researchers suggest ...more
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