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155 Home
oxygen hits problems days into new service The new home oxygen
service, which came into effect on 1 February, has run into problems
within days of its introduction and community pharmacists are being asked
to continue to provide a service ...more
155 Care
home staff failing to administer drugs to patients appropriately Some
care home managers are failing to ensure that staff use basic training
given by community pharmacists in how to administer medicines to patients.
This is according to the head pharmacist, Hazel Sommerville, at the Commission
for Social Care Inspection following its damning report into medicines
management in care homes published this week ...more
155 Medication
management has not improved in two years Parliament has been
told that the management of medication in care homes is no better than
it was two years ago, when the National Care Standards Commission found
the same failings as this week's report by the Commission of Social Care
Inspection ...more
156 Self-monitoring
of anticoagulation cuts mortality Self-monitoring of oral
anticoagulants leads to fewer thromboembolic events and lower mortality
than with standard monitoring, according to a paper ...more
156 Anticoagulant
risk assessment published A risk assessment for anticoagulant
therapy has been published by the National Patient Safety Agency. It
provides the detailed background evidence for safer practice recommendations
that will be made later this year ...more
156 Community
pharmacy incident reports to increase Community pharmacists
are likely to report more incidents to the National Patient Safety Agency
as the new contract beds in, Susan Williams, NPSA joint chief executive,
said at its conference in Birmingham last week ...more
156 Boots Alliance
deemed fair The proposed merger of Boots and Alliance UniChem
will not be referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair
Trading for further scrutiny ...more
156 EMEA makes
information more accessible to patients Simple summaries of
European Medicines Agency pre-licensing medicines assessment reports
are now being published by the EMEA ...more
157 Teams to
be sent to NHS trusts to tackle MRSA bug Support teams are
to be sent into 20 NHS trusts to advise them on how to reduce levels
of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the Department of Health
has announced ...more
157 Public misinterpret
MRSA figures Better public education about the meaning of
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus figures was called for at
a meeting held in London this week ...more
157 Mental health
pharmacy team recognised A pharmacy team working for a mental health and disability trust has won a top award in recognition of the contribution it makes to patient safety and improvements in care. The Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust named its pharmacy advice and support team as overall winners of its annual Celebrating Success awards
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157 Sexual health
clinics lack capacity to deal with increasing number of chlamydia infections Chlamydia remained the most common sexually transmitted infection between 2000 and 2004 in the UK, with new cases per 1,000 patients attending genitourinary clinics up from 117 to 175, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics last month
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158 Community
pharmacies should not have to segregate waste All medicinal
waste returned to community pharmacies should be disposed of as if it
were hazardous waste, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
and the Company Chemists' Association suggest in their responses to the
Department of Health consultation on safe management of health care waste
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158 Society to
submit evidence on workforce Evidence on the pharmacy workforce
is to be submitted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to a House of
Commons Health Committee inquiry into NHS workforce needs and planning
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158 Candidates
announced for PSNC regional elections The Pharmaceutical Services
Negotiating Committee regional representative elections are currently
being held, with results expected at the beginning of March ...more
159 Affordability
drives prescription charge exemptions Government policy on
who should be exempt from prescription charges is driven by patients'
ability to pay and not the conditions from which they suffer ...more
159 £3m
recovered from prescription charge frauds 2001–05 Nearly £3m
has been recovered from 160,000 civil prosecutions for wrongful free
prescription claims up to 31 March last year ...more
159 Health funding
increase will not be spent on service improvements, King's Fund warns Nearly
half of the £4.5bn increase in health spending promised for the
next financial year will be absorbed in staff pay rises, according to
a King's Fund analysis published this week ...more
159 Penciclovir
reclassification Novartis Consumer Health has asked the Medicines
and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to reclassify Fenistil cold
sore cream (penciclovir 10mg/g) as a pharmacy medicine for use by adults
and children aged over 12 years ...more
159 New antifungal
launched A new broad spectrum antifungal has been launched
by Schering Plough ...more
159 Out-of-pocket
expenses claims Pharmacies in England must declare the total
amount and the number of claims for out-of-pocket expenses on FP34C forms
from this month ...more
159 New CMO for
Wales Tony Jewel, currently clinical director and director
of public health for Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health
Authority, has been appointed chief medical officer for Wales ...more
160 Child medicines
need better labelling, say Lords Medicines need to be properly
labelled to indicate their suitability for children, a House of Lords
Committee said last week ...more
160 Antiepileptics
in pregnancy Major congenital malformations (MCMs) occur in
as little as 4.2 per cent of newborns exposed to antiepileptic drugs in
utero ...more
160 Depression
therapy a dilemma in pregnancy Women who discontinue antidepressants
during pregnancy are more likely to have a relapse of their illness than
those who do not, a study has found ...more
160 Chief Medical
Officer announces inclusion of Prevenar in childhood vaccination schedule Prevenar
pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) has been added to the UK childhood
immunisation schedule on the advice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination
and Immunisation ...more
160 Antidepressant
time of onset Antidepressants can elicit a response within
two weeks and even within the first three days of treatment, contrary
to the currently accepted timeframe of several weeks ...more
160 HIV diagnoses
still increase HIV diagnoses in the UK have continued to rise
between 2004 and 2005 ...more
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