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733 Pharmacists
should ask LPCs about smartcards Community pharmacists should
find out when their primary care trust will issue them with the smartcard
essential for them to take part in the electronic prescription service
(EPS) before they commit themselves to paying for the costs of the computer
connection, pharmacy negotiators warned this week ...more
733 Pharmacist
projects win national awards Two medicines management projects involving pharmacists were among the winners of the inaugural general medical services and personal medical services Awards of Excellence, presented at the NHS Alliance Conference in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, this week
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733 Review limit
raised to 250 The maximum number of medicines use reviews
that can be carried out during the first year of the new community pharmacy
contract has been increased from 200 to 250, the Department of Health
has confirmed ...more
733 Leaflet for
patients on drug side effects developed by MHRA A patient
leaflet that contains questions and answers on the side effects of medicines
has been produced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency ...more
734 Social-value
judgements not relevant to health care Treatment should not
be denied to patients with conditions that may be self-inflicted, the
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says in a report
published last week ...more
734 Implementing
NICE guidance Practical advice on implementing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance was published by NICE in the form of a “How to” guide last week
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734 Lack of NICE
guidance cannot be sole reason for withholding treatment from NHS patients It is not acceptable for NHS organisations to cite a lack of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance as the sole reason for not providing a treatment, according to health minister Jane Kennedy
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734 SMC issues
guidance on six more drugs The Scottish Medicines Consortium this week accepted five drugs for use within NHS Scotland and rejected one
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734 NHS complaints Complaints about the NHS in Scotland fell by 3.2 per cent in the financial year 2004–05 compared with the previous year
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734 Scotland's
obesity problem Obesity among children in Scotland has increased
over the past five years, statistics released by NHS Scotland this week
show ...more
735 Society criticised
despite winning High Court appeal Manchester pharmacist Allan Stuart Black was rightly struck off by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Statutory Committee earlier this year, a High Court judge has ruled. However, the judge criticised the Society for treating him unfairly despite dismissing Mr Black's appeal
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735 Prevention
in NHS reforms Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has pledged
that the next raft of reforms in the NHS will move away from acute care
to prevention, and health and social care in the community ...more
735 NHS efficiency
savings ahead of schedule Efficiency savings in the NHS in England are ahead of schedule, the Secretary of State for Heath, Patricia Hewitt, has said
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735 Union issues
lobbying call over health service reform Amicus is urging its members to lobby their members of Parliament over Government proposals to reform health services
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735 Hospital
pharmacists migrate to primary care Pharmacists who work exclusively in primary care are more likely to have come from the hospital than the community sector, a paper in this month's International
Journal of Pharmacy Practice reveals
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736 Switch to
aromatase inhibitor improves survival Replacing tamoxifen
with anastrozole (Arimidex) improves survival of patients with early
breast cancer compared with continuing on tamoxifen for five years, according
to results from the first study to show a survival benefit of changing
hormonal therapy ...more
736 COX-2 inhibitor
launched by Novartis A new selective cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2)
inhibitor has been launched by Novartis ...more
736 Adding trastuzumab
increases survival Treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin)
at the same time as, or following, chemotherapy increased disease-free
survival in a trial of 3,222 women with human epidermal growth factor
receptor 2 (HER2)-positive early breast cancer ...more
737 Pharmacists
consulted on paediatric formulations Pharmacists are being
consulted on their views about the formulation of children's medicines,
which might bring about new European guidelines for the pharmaceutical
industry ...more
737 More licensed
child medicines a step closer Having more medicines licensed
for use in children came a step closer last week with approval of a research
incentive scheme by the EU Council of Ministers ...more
737 Toxic herbal
medicines alert Consumers are warned by the Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory Agency not to purchase or use two African
herbal remedies — M2 and Energy 2000 ...more
737 ACE inhibitors
and ARBs not always best in kidney disease Angiotensin-converting
enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin-II receptor blockers are not necessarily
better than other antihypertensives in preventing kidney disease, a review
of evidence suggests ...more
737 Study questions
routine prophylaxis against thromboembolism after fracture below the
knee Fractures below the knee do not warrant routine prophylaxis
against venous thromboembolism, concludes a Canadian prospective cohort
study presented at the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of
Hematology in Atlanta, Georgia, this week ...more
737 100th Nucare
PLUS store Nucare has opened its 100th Nucare PLUS store — part
of the upgrade scheme for Nucare pharmacies — in Tyldesley, Manchester
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738 Pharmacy
IT must evolve for future contract needs Key to finding the
most appropriate IT system to support the new community pharmacy contract
is identifying one that will evolve over time to meet both current and
future needs, according to Nick Strong, managing director of Systems
Solutions ...more
738 Pharmacist
wins “Leader for change” award Joel Hirst, a pharmacist
and quality improvement facilitator in medicines and pharmacy at Bristol
North Primary Care Trust, has won a “Leaders for change” award
for a project that focuses on increasing the role of community pharmacists
in the provision of local health services ...more
738 System implemented
to aid rational clinically led drug selection in Northern Ireland Pharmacists
in Northern Ireland and the Netherlands have collaborated to develop
and implement an evidence-based, transparent process for drug selection
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