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31 Government
rejects Society preference for Health Bill Calls by the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society for the changes to the supervision requirements
in pharmacies to be set out in the Health Bill currently being considered
by Parliament have been rejected ...more
31 Health
minister to discuss pharmacy with MPs Members of Parliament
and peers with an interest in pharmacy are meeting health minister Jane
Kennedy next week to discuss the increased role community pharmacists
can play in helping to meet the Government's commitment to deliver more
patient care outside the hospital sector ...more
31 PCT reform
criticised by Parliamentary Health Committee The Government should allow primary care trusts to “develop organically”, says the House of Commons Health Committee in its report on the Government's proposed reform of primary care
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31 Note early
signs of meningitis Early warning signs for meningococcal
sepsis in children have been identified in a new study ...more
31 Regulatory
review goes to ministers Ministers are currently considering
a review of the regulation of non-medical health professionals ...more
32 Volumatic
spacer devices to be reintroduced in UK Volumatic spacer devices are to be reintroduced in the UK following concerns raised by the Committee on Safety of Medicines over a lack of data to support the AeroChamber Plus device, Gordon Duff, chairman of the Commission on Human Medicines, has announced in a letter to health professionals
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32 DoH warns
about volatile substance abuse Concerns about the abuse of
volatile substances by health workers have been raised by Sir Liam Donaldson,
chief medical officer for England, in a letter to the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society's President, Hemant Patel ...more
32 Community
pharmacists in Fife advise on winter ailments Community pharmacists
in Fife are aiming to raise awareness of pharmacy's role in managing
winter ailments in a new campaign starting next week ...more
32 Oxygen cylinder
shortage Due to a shortage of BOC Medical's portage oxygen cylinder type DD, another type of cylinder has been temporarily added to the Scottish Drug Tariff
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32 Law change
could stop safe disposal of medicines Planned changes to waste
management regulations mean that community pharmacies might be forced
to stop accepting unwanted medicines from patients for safe disposal
...more
33 MHRA issues
warning over herbal medicines advertising Herbal practitioners
have been warned by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency not to make unjustified or unsubstantiated claims about the safety
of herbal medicines ...more
33 Survey reveals
pharmacy potential to help people deal with stress As much
as 15 per cent of people would consider buying medicines from a pharmacist
to help themselves feel less stressed, a survey has found ...more
33 Society calls
for inquiry into system of licensing wholesale dealers The
Government should look urgently at the system for licensing wholesalers,
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society said this week ...more
33 Scots charge
abolition Bill gets a boost Proposals to end NHS prescription charges in Scotland got a boost this week as the Scottish Parliament's health committee announced its support for an abolition Bill
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33 Boots using
talking labels to help the visually impaired Talking labels
are now available for dispensed medicines from all Boots pharmacies,
a spokeswoman for the company told The Journal this week ...more
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34 Doctors concerned
about progress of IT programme Only 1.0 per cent of doctors
believe that the National Programme for IT is making good progress, according
to an independent poll of more than 1,300 doctors ...more
34 General public
should be able to ask primary care providers to set up services they
choose Members of the public should be able to petition councillors
to ask primary care service providers to set up in their locality without
being invited to do so by primary care trusts or their equivalents, a
report published last week has argued ...more
34 LPC fraud
investigation NHS fraud investigators are soon to decide
whether they need take any action against North East London Local Pharmaceutical
Committee ...more
34 Fraudulent
pharmacist must repay over £200,000 Defrauding the NHS
has resulted in the confiscation of over £200,000 from a Yorkshire
pharmacist ...more
34 Three firms
bring discredit on the pharmaceutical industry Activities
of three pharmaceutical companies or their representatives brought discredit
on the pharmaceutical industry, according to the latest issue of the
Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority's Code of Practice
Review ...more
35 Intraperitoneal
chemotherapy has survival benefits Women with ovarian cancer
treated with intraperitoneal as well as intravenous chemotherapy after
surgery survive longer than women treated only with intravenous therapy
post-surgery, a new trial reveals ...more
35 Beta-lactam
antibiotic temocillin now available in the UK Temocillin (Negaban;
Eumedica), an injectable beta-lactam antibiotic, is now available in
the UK. It is indicated for the treatment of septicaemia, urinary tract
infection and lower respiratory tract infection where susceptible gram-negative
bacilli are suspected or confirmed ...more
35 Theory proposed
for cough syrups' “placebo” effect Sweet-tasting
syrups alone may provide antitussive relief by modulating the production
of endogenous opioids ...more
35 Reserve TNF
inhibitors for selected patients, says DTB Etanercept,
infliximab and adalimumab (tumour necrosis factor inhibitors) should
be reserved for patients with severe peripheral joint psoriatic arthritis
who have failed treatment with other drugs, according to the latest Drug
and Therapeutics Bulletin review ...more
35 Memantine
effective in Alzheimer's disease over long term Memantine
is safe and effective in the long term, according to an open-label 24-week
extension of a 28-week, randomised, double-blind trial in patients with
moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease ...more
35 Cases in Turkey Turkish
laboratories have confirmed 15 cases of H5N1 avian influenza, two of
which were fatal (as of 11 January) ...more
35 Travel advice As The
Journal went to press there were no official travel warnings related
to countries affected by avian influenza ...more
35 Vaccine application GlaxoSmithKline
Biologicals has submitted the first pandemic influenza vaccine application
to the European Medicines Agency ...more
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