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407 NHS
pharmacy staff awarded 2.5 pc pay increase Pharmacy staff working for the NHS will receive a 2.5 per cent pay rise from 1 April, Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt announced last week
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407 Tell
accountant about VAT status of services Contractors in England
and Wales should alert their accountants as soon as possible to guidance
on the VAT status of essential and advanced services, warns Mike Dent,
head of finance at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
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407 Ballot papers
for Council election declared invalid The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council election ballot papers sent out on 31 March have been declared invalid. An administrative error caused ballot papers to be sent to pharmacy technicians as well as pharmacists
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407 Benchmark
prices for oxygen service set for pharmacists in Wales Benchmark
prices for provision of home oxygen services by community pharmacists
in Wales after 1 February have been developed ...more
407 Foster leaves
DoH Andrew Foster is to leave his role as director general
for workforce at the Department of Health ...more
408 Few opportunities
for pharmacists in GMS contract Few tangible opportunities for pharmacists exist within the revised general medical services (GMS) contract for 2006–07, which came into effect this week
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408 Pharmacists
charged in price-fixing case Pharmacists working as directors
of Goldshield Group Plc were due to be charged with conspiracy to defraud
the NHS this week following a four-year investigation by the Serious
Fraud Office ...more
408 NPSA launches “Please
ask” “Please ask”, a campaign designed to encourage patients to play a more active part in their own health care, has been launched by the National Patient Safety Agency
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408 PCT reconfiguration
update Strategic health authorities are expected to submit
reports on reconfiguration of primary care trusts to the Department of
Health by 10 April ...more
408 Experts set
to examine clinical trial process after adverse events at Northwick Park Clinical trial, immunology and toxicology experts are to examine how the trial process should be modified after the incident at Northwick Park Hospital
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409 Advising
smokers to stop is successful, says NICE Brief chats with
smokers about quitting are both successful in encouraging them to stop
and cost-effective, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
says in its first public health intervention guidance published last
week ...more
409 Responses
to patient pack dispensing proposals published by DoH Patient
pack dispensing should be introduced in England, but the Government's
proposals of how it should be initiated will not work, respondents to
the Department of Health consultation on the topic have argued ...more
409 New dopamine
agonist patch to treat Parkinson's disease A new dopamine agonist for the treatment of early stage Parkinson's disease has been launched this week by Schwarz Pharma
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409 Prescription
numbers up Community pharmacies in Scotland dispensed two million more prescriptions last year than the year before
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409 Prescriptions
dispensed in Wales English prescriptions dispensed in Wales,
including those for patients under 25 years old, will now be charged
at the English fee ...more
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410 Hypoglycaemia
management in some hospitals is inadequate Treatment of hypoglycaemia
in hospital is inadequate and haphazard, according to several research
groups presenting their work at the Diabetes UK annual professional conference
held in Birmingham last week ...more
410 Vitamin C
and E supplements do not prevent pre-eclampsia Vitamin C and
E supplementation does not prevent pre-eclampsia in women at risk, according
to research published ...more
410 Patient safety
website will allow European dialogue A web-based forum for
exchanging ideas and knowledge relating to patient safety was demonstrated
at the 11th congress of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists,
held in Geneva last month ...more
411 WHO targets
loss of health workers in poor countries Developed countries
need to increase health care training to stem the flow of workers from
developing countries and all countries need to revitalise education strategies,
the World Health Organization argues in two reports this week ...more
411 New collaboration
announced for medicines research in Scotland Research into
personalised medicine received a boost this week with the announcement
of a new collaboration in Scotland between industry, academia and the
NHS ...more
411 PDA calls
for firmer stance on remote supervision The Pharmacists' Defence
Association has again voiced its opposition to the Government's plans
for remote pharmacy supervision with the release of a document “Remote
supervision — a step too far?” ...more
411 Boots aims
for 60 stores open until midnight by 2007 Boots The Chemists
aims to have 60 pharmacies open until midnight by the end of 2006, the
company announced this week ...more
411 Statistics
reveal increase in pharmacy staff in NHS Wales Pharmacy staff
numbers, ranging from pharmacy technicians to senior managers, in NHS
Wales increased by 6.3 per cent from 2004 to 2005, Government statistics
have revealed ...more
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