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563 Health
Bill will enable personal supervision changes Requirements
for community pharmacies to be under the personal control of, and for
work to be supervised by, a pharmacist are to be changed under the Health
Bill, which was laid before Parliament at the end of last week ...more
563 Plan
for smoking ban does not go far enough Government plans to
ban smoking in most enclosed public places squander an opportunity to
provide proper protection from smoking, in the view of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society ...more
564 Prescription
charges should be retained but reformed NHS prescription charges should remain in place but the current charging system needs an overhaul. This is the message that representatives of pharmacy organisations gave the Scottish Parliament's health committee this week
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564 Shift from
hospital- to community-focused care in Scotland Preventive health care based in local communities is the central theme of the Scottish Executive's new plan for the development of the NHS in Scotland
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564 “Best
practice” clinical waste management plans proposed Consultation
has started on a new unified approach to the classification and handling
of health care waste in England and Wales ...more
564 NHS fraud
awareness month November is NHS fraud awareness month in Scotland
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564 CHD rates
fall in Scotland Rates of coronary heart disease and stroke
are continuing to fall in Scotland, according to statistics released
by the NHS this week ...more
565 Roche cuts
wholesalers from Tamiflu supply chain Roche is bypassing wholesalers
and dealing direct with pharmacists in an attempt to keep a tight rein
over supplies of the influenza anti-viral Tamiflu ...more
565 New protease
inhibitor A protease inhibitor licensed to treat multidrug-resistant
HIV patients has been launched by Boehringer Ingelheim ...more
565 Probenecid
could reduce need for Tamiflu A report in this week's issue
of Nature suggests a way in which supplies of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) could
be boosted in the event of an influenza pandemic ...more
565 Third Ask
About Medicines Week about to get off the blocks The annual Ask About Medicines Week, which is in its third year, takes place next week from 7–11 November
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566 New subcutaneous
treatment for asthma launched Omalizumab (Xolair), an anti-IgE
antibody, has been launched in the UK as an add-on therapy for the treatment
of asthma ...more
566 DTB revises
view on leukotriene antagonists The place of leukotriene receptor
antagonists in the management of asthma is reconsidered by the Drug
and Therapeutics Bulletin this month ...more
566 NHS needs
to tackle lack of capacity to deliver cancer services Action
is needed to tackle the lack of capacity within the NHS to deliver cancer
services, according to a report published by Cancer Capacity Coalition
(a group of oncology clinicians and charities) this week ...more
566 New antibiotic
delivery system for children A new drug delivery system designed
to improve compliance and dosing accuracy when administering drugs to
children has been launched by Grünenthal this week ...more
567 EHC purchase
from pharmacies doubles in past year In the past year, the
number of women buying emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) from community
pharmacists has doubled, according to official figures published last
week ...more
567 Pharmacists
could play role in increasing rates of VTE prophylaxis Venous
thromboembolism prophylaxis is consistently underemployed and ward pharmacists
could be used to increase its use, an article published this week suggests
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567 Mountain
rescue teams to get better access to drugs Suitably trained
members of mountain rescue teams are to be allowed to supply and administer
any necessary medicines to sick or injured people involved in mountain
rescue emergencies ...more
567 Patient safety
guide launched A guide to help primary care organisations
in England and Wales make patient care safer has been launched by the
National Patient Safety Agency ...more
568 Council member
cleared of conduct complaint Noel Wicks, a member of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society's Council, has been cleared of two allegations
that he broke the Council's code of conduct ...more
568 Violence
in primary care and the community should always be reported to PCTs It
is essential that pharmacists report violence against themselves and
their staff so that the NHS Security Management Service (NHS SMS) can
take action to prevent it, Alastair Buxton, head of NHS services at the
Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, said at a press briefing
last week ...more
568 Community
preregistration placements The National Pharmacy Association
has launched a service to help pharmacy students find preregistration
placements in community pharmacy ...more
568 Concerned
technicians advised to appeal against AfC Pharmacy technicians
who are unhappy with their job profile match under the NHS Agenda for
Change pay system are being advised to appeal by the Association of Pharmacy
Technicians UK ...more
568 Clinical
governance survey The National Audit Office wants pharmacists
to comment on views expressed during a recent study of clinical governance
in primary care in England ...more
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