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677 Chief
pharmaceutical officer for England appointed at DoH Keith
Ridge, currently director of pharmacy at University Hospital Birmingham
NHS Foundation Trust, has been appointed chief pharmaceutical officer
at the Department of Health ...more
677 Implementation
plan announced for new contract in Scotland Implementation of the new community pharmacy contract in Scotland is to take a bottom-up approach, with a key role given to local pharmacy practitioner champions
...more
677 National
patient group direction allows urgent supplies of repeat medicines Pharmacists in Scotland are to be authorised to provide emergency supplies of a full cycle of patients' regular medicines instead of being limited to a five-day supply
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678 APPG writes
to Hewitt on care outside hospitals Community pharmacists'
accessibility and trusted status, along with the new community pharmacy
contract, will enable them to be used as the principal means of delivering
improvements in primary care, says Howard Stoate, chairman of the All-Party
Pharmacy Group, in a letter to the Department of Health about its forthcoming
White Paper on out-of-hospital care ...more
678 Providing
services from pharmacies will relieve pressure on GPs Providing diagnostic tests and other services in pharmacies will reduce the number of visits patients need to make to other health professionals and will mean GPs' time can be used more effectively, according to the NHS Confederation
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678 Ethics code
could fetter discretion, NPA warns Professional discretion will be fettered if the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's new Code of Ethics follows the prescriptive form of its current version
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678 Follow NICE
guidelines on hypertension, says MeReC Extra Prescribers should follow the current National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guideline on managing hypertension until any changes are announced, the November issue of MeReC
Extra concludes
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678 Healthy Start
scheme begins Roll-out of the Healthy Start scheme, which
replaces the Welfare Food Scheme, has started in Devon and Cornwall ...more
679 Manchester
pharmacies in chlamydia/EHC study Young women asking for emergency contraception at about 30 pharmacies in the Greater Manchester Primary Care Trust area are to be offered chlamydia screening in a University of Manchester study
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679 Judge contract
applications on essential services only, say pharmacists in Wales Applications for NHS pharmacy contracts in Wales should not be decided on the basis of ability to provide either advanced or enhanced pharmaceutical services, Community Pharmacy Wales has told the Welsh Assembly Government
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679 Financial
concerns over abolishing prescription charges Abolishing NHS prescription charges got the thumbs down from the Scottish Parliament's finance committee last week
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679 New funding
for IT upgrades for Scotland pharmacies Pharmacy contractors
in Scotland are to receive additional funding towards upgrading their
computer software in preparation for the new contract ...more
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680 Conventional
antipsychotics as likely as atypicals to increase risk of death in elderly,
study suggests Conventional antipsychotic drugs are at least
as likely as atypical antipsychotics to increase the risk of death among
elderly people, according to the authors of a study ...more
680 Call for
global action to improve patient safety Global action is
necessary to improve patient safety, said Patricia Hewitt, Secretary
of State for Health, at the opening of a patient safety summit in London
this week ...more
680 Regular salbutamol
may increase risk of airflow obstruction Regular inhaled short-acting
beta agonists may increase the risk of future moderate or severe asthma
attacks, authors of a letter published in Nature predict ...more
680 Almus safety
award Jonathan Burton, of Danderhall Pharmacy, Danderhall,
Midlothian, has won the first Almus patient safety award, which was launched
earlier this year ...more
680 Calprofen
reclassification Pfizer Consumer Healthcare has applied to
the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to have Calprofen
100mg/5ml oral suspension (ibuprofen) reclassified as a general sale
list medicine ...more
681 Flavours
for dispensed medicines to be marketed Flavorx, a US company
that markets flavourings for dispensed medicines, is to try to expand
its business into the UK ...more
681 Welsh solution
to MDS dilemma sought Health and social care professionals
in Wales are hoping to find a way of providing monitored dosage systems
(MDSs) for patients who would benefit from them but who do not qualify
for them under the new NHS pharmacy contract ...more
681 Intramuscular
injections may not always be successful As much as 68 per
cent of patients may not be successfully receiving drugs delivered by
intramuscular injection into the buttocks, a study presented at the annual
meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago, Illinois,
this week suggests ...more
681 TNF inhibitors
appear to induce remission in rheumatoid arthritis More than
half of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who go into remission after
treatment with a tumour necrosis factor inhibitor may remain well once
the treatment is withdrawn, according to data presented at the American
College of Rheumatology annual meeting held in San Diego, California,
last month ...more
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