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359 NHS needs to be open about patient safety incidents Being
open when patients are harmed is the subject of a safer practice notice
issued last week by the National Patient Safety Agency
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359 LPC
criticised in health authority report North East London Local
Pharmaceutical Committee has been criticised for procedural irregularities
in a review commissioned by North East
London Strategic Health Authority
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359 PSNC produces
fitness-to-practise notification template Templates for pharmacy
contractors to use to notify primary care trusts about fitness-to-practise
matters have been produced by the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee
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359 PSNC produces
workbook to help contractors prepare for contract monitoring To
help pharmacy contractors prepare for the monitoring stage of the new
community pharmacy contract, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee has produced a workbook
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359 Pharmacists’ public
health role underlined at party conference Pharmacists’ role
in engaging the public about health matters has been highlighted in meetings
at the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference in Blackpool ...more
360 British National
Formulary for Children launched With the publication of the
British National Formulary for Children, pharmacists, doctors and nurses
will have access to the most recent
data about medicines use in children, which should lead to safer prescribing
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360 BNF charitable
collection The Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association’s
annual collection of outdated copies of the British National Formulary
will take place from 7 to 11 November ...more
360 NHS 24 recruits
pharmacists NHS 24, the Scottish telephone advice service,
has recruited 12 part-time pharmacists as front-line staff to manage
its out-of-hours medicines-related
enquiries after an audit showed that one in three calls had a noticeable
pharmaceutical element
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360 Safety warning
issued on slimming aids Potentially dangerous and illegal
traditional Chinese medicine slimming aids have been discovered on the
UK and international markets
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360 Strychnine
for mole control Strychnine will no longer be approved for
mole control from 1 September 2006
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360 Sale of Private-Rx Private-Rx,
an online pharmacy discussion forum, has been acquired by PPLS group
of companies
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361 Pharmacists
will need pharmacogenetics training Pharmacists of the
future will require a much stronger basic training in the fundamentals
of human genetics to have a more defined role in the application
of pharmacogenetics ...more
361 Drug pictograms
can improve compliance A “universally acceptable” system
of pictograms to supplement spoken directions and written labels in emergencies
has been developed by the Military and Emergency Pharmacy Section (MEPS)
of the International Pharmaceutical Federation ...more
361 Oral contraceptives
may be associated with delay in MS Recent use of oral contraceptives
may delay the first clinical attack of multiple sclerosis ...more
361 High antibiotic
use is associated with high levels of MRSA in European hospitals Antibiotic
use and infection control measures have a significant impact on methicillin
resistant Staphylococcus aureus levels in European hospitals ...more
362 Connecting
for Health launches staff communication campaign Communication
with NHS employees about the NHS Care Records Service, part of the national
IT programme, officially started this week ...more
362 Society calls
for smoking ban to be complete Only a complete ban on smoking
in all enclosed public places will protect people from second hand smoke,
encourage them to give up and ultimately act as a deterrent to smoking,
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society says ...more
362 NPC chief
executive receives Schering award Clive Jackson, chief executive
of the National Prescribing Centre, received the 2004 Schering award
during a ceremony in London earlier this month ...more
363 New and old
antipsychotics have similar efficacy First and second generation
antipsychotics are comparably effective but both associated with high
rates of stopping therapy, according to research published in the New
England Journal of Medicine ...more
363 Quarter
of people do not realise they have diabetes, audit shows About
a quarter of people who are predicted by epidemiological studies to
have diabetes have not had their condition diagnosed and recorded in
practice registers, a new audit shows ...more
363 Combination
of long-acting bronchodilators improves lung function for patients with
COPD A combination of the long-acting bronchodilators tiotropium
and formoterol improves lung function in patients with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease more than a bronchodilator/anti-inflammatory combination,
according to a study ...more
363 Public consultation
on diabetes care launched A public consultation to help assess
the state of diabetes health care across the UK has been launched by
Diabetes UK in association with the All Party Parliamentary Group for
Diabetes and the Hansard Society ...more
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