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61 Do not e-mail MUR forms to doctors, says the PSNC Pharmacists should not e-mail medicines use review forms to GPs ...more
61 Commissioning of enhanced services difficult Funding crises in the NHS are making the commissioning of enhanced services in England more difficult, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s chief executive Sue Sharpe acknowledged this week ...more
61 Funding of community pharmacist MURs not justified Available evidence does not support the Government’s funding of medicines use reviews in community pharmacies
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61 Scottish Pharmaceutical Federation members vote to wind up Members of the Scottish Pharmaceutical Federation have voted in favour of the federation being wound up ...more
61 Unsocial hours options tested Pharmacists at 10 trusts are among the health professions involved in testing options for how pay for unsocial hours will be calculated and introduced under Agenda for Change ...more
62 New violence offence set to cover pharmacies Laws designed to protect emergency services workers and public servants from attack are to be extended to pharmacists and community pharmacy staff
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62 Elderly people still given inappropriate drugs Most elderly people continue to be prescribed antipsychotic drugs inappropriately ...more
62 No cost estimate made for patient packs, DoH admits No estimates have been made by the Department of Health of the cost to pharmacists of providing full patient packs if reimbursement is based on the quantity of medicines prescribed ...more
62 NI pharmacist chairs British Pharmacopoeia Commission Northern Ireland pharmacist David Woolfson has been made chairman of the British Pharmacopoeia Commission
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62 Duthie report author dies Robert Duthie, Emeritus Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford, and known for his contribution to the “Duthie report”, died on 25 December 2005
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63 Doctors in UK surveyed about end-of-life decisions One in three patients died after doctors administered treatment to alleviate symptoms knowing that it might shorten life, according to research due to be published next week ...more
63 Do not use metronidazole to prevent delivery Metronidazole should no longer be used in pregnancy for the prevention of pre-term delivery, according to the authors of a study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ...more
63 Head lice treatments may be linked with child leukaemia An association between insecticidal head lice shampoo treatments and childhood leuk-aemias has been observed by the authors of a new study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine ...more
63 Blindness risk with use of erectile dysfunction drugs Men taking the erectile dysfunction medicines sildenafil (Viagra) or tadalafil (Cialis) are at higher risk of non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy if they have a history of myocardial infarction
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63 Antivirals may not always be appropriate to treat influenza Use of M2 ion channel-blocking drugs (amantadine and rimantadine) to treat influenza should be discouraged, say the authors of a systematic review ...more
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64 Failure to declare source of funds for APPG was accidental omission The All-Party Pharmacy Group was named in an article in The Times last week as one of six all-party groups that does not list the source of its support in the parliamentary register ...more
64 SMC accepts antihistamine eye-drop and dispersible PPI but rejects four other drugs A new antihistamine eye drop and an oro-dispersible form of lansoprazole have been accepted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium for use within NHS Scotland ...more
64 Pharmacy2U taken to task over marketing The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has upheld two complaints made about the marketing of services provided by online pharmacy business Pharmacy2U ...more
64 Superdrug plans Irish move Superdrug has confirmed that it is examining sites in the Irish Republic and plans to open its first stores there later this year ...more
64 IPU warns on health centres Pharmacies being opened in doctor-owned health centres in the Irish Republic are threatening to squeeze other members of the profession out of business, according to the Irish Pharmaceutical Union ...more
65 Antidepressants and suicide risk debate continues Further evidence to support the use of newer antidepressants in adults has emerged from a study published this month ...more
65 HIV/hepatitis co-infection meeting a success HIV and hepatitis specialists met last week in London for the inaugural British Co-Infection Association meeting ...more
65 Warning on Konakion MM Paediatric dose for neonates Konakion Neonatal (phytomenadione [vitamin K]) ampoules are to be discontinued on 31 March ...more
65 Most patients on thiazides do not have electrolytes monitored Two-thirds of patients prescribed thiazide diuretics in primary care have not had their electrolytes checked, according to a paper published this week ...more
65 Effects of aspirin may differ between men and women Low-dose aspirin reduces the risk of cardiovascular events through its effect on ischaemic stroke in women and myocardial infarction in men, according to a meta-analysis published this week ...more
66 Dasatinib effective in treating resistant CML cases Dasatinib, a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is effective in imatinib-resistant and intolerant patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), according to data from a phase II trial ...more
66 Rotavirus research shows promising results Promising results from trials of new rotavirus vaccines have been published ...more
66 Inhaled ciclosporin improves survival in lung transplants Inhaled ciclosporin improves chronic rejection and survival in lung transplant patients, a randomised, double-blind trial concludes ...more
66 EGFR mutations can affect drug response Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations can modulate differential responses to erlotinib and gefitinib ...more
66 Scots awarded grant to investigate stent Researchers in Scotland have been awarded a grant of £90,000 from the British Heart Foundation to investigate a novel drug-eluting stent ...more
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