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467 Financial
deal to support new contract in Scotland Community pharmacists
in Scotland will this week hear the details of the financial deal that
will support their new contract ...more
467 Strategic
health authorities to be reduced to 10 The number of strategic
health authorities in England will be reduced from 28 to 10 from 1 July,
Secretary of State for Health Patricia Hewitt announced last week ...more
467 Students
question status quo over registration/membership The link
between registration as a pharmacist and membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society may be broken, according to students at the British Pharmaceutical
Students' Association annual conference held in Bradford last week ...more
468 PPRS bites into GP drugs bill … and the pharmaceutical industry Last
year's 7 per cent cut in drug prices imposed on the pharmaceutical industry
through the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, coupled with some
high cost drugs coming out of patent, resulted in a 2.8 per cent fall
in the costs of GP prescribing in England ... Medicine prices have fallen
by 21 per cent in real terms over the past 10 years, according to the
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry ...more
468 Pharmacies
overpaid for generics, says LSE researcher Community pharmacies
are making more profit from drug purchasing for NHS dispensing than allowed
in the new pharmacy contract for England and Wales, according to London
School of Economics researcher Panos Kanavos. Dr Kanavos bases his claim
on an analysis of a sample of generic medicines dispensed during the
first half of last year, before the contract came into effect ...more
468 Drug costs
to be targeted Spending on medicines has been highlighted
as a target for savings to help control costs in the NHS ...more
469 Guide to
independent prescribing published by DoH Guidance for implementing
independent prescribing in England has been published by the Department
of Health. The guide, which addresses legal, training and evaluation
issues, covers pharmacist and nurse prescribers and is applicable to
both the NHS and the independent sector ...more
469 More pharmacists
register for EPS but many are still waiting for IT The number of pharmacists registering to use the electronic prescription service (EPS) in England is rising quickly but many are still waiting for computer systems to be authorised for national rollout
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469 Air Products
announces oxygen fee waiver Air Products will waive any lost
oxygen cylinder fees that would have applied after 31 July and refund
all full cylinders returned after that date, the company has announced
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469 Society calls
for RFID tags on food animals Food animals should be fitted
with radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices so that their complete
medication history can travel with them when they are moved between farms.
That is the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's advice to a Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs review of livestock movement rules
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470 Some COPD
exacerbations need antibiotic treatment Exacerbations of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with increased cough
and sputum purulence should be treated with antibiotics, according to
a review ...more
470 Antibiotics
in asthma attacks Antibiotic treatment with telithromycin
(Ketek) may provide some benefit to patients who have had an asthma attack,
according to a recent study ...more
470 Compression
stockings are shown to decrease DVT risk Wearing compression
stockings decreases the risk of symptomless deep vein thrombosis from
about 10–30 per 1,000 to 1–3 per 1,000 long-haul airline
passengers, according to a Cochrane review of 10 trials involving 2,856
people ...more
470 SMC accepts
one of four medicines Daptomycin (Cubicin) has been reviewed
by the Scottish Medicines Consortium and accepted for restricted use
within NHS Scotland for the treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue
infections in adults ...more
470 Oestrogen-only
HRT does not raise breast cancer risk Postmenopausal women
who take oestrogen-only hormone replacement therapy do not have an increased
risk of breast cancer, according to an analysis of data from the Women's
Health Initiative ...more
470 Europe generally
well prepared for an influenza pandemic European countries
are generally well prepared for an influenza pandemic, but co-operation
between countries needs to be improved, a review of national plans published
online has concluded ...more
471 Pharmacy
advice on Parkinson's disease popular with patients Patients
with Parkinson's disease find consultations with a pharmacist helpful,
the results of a Medicines Partnership project suggest ...more
471 Tesco drops
illegal Nurofen promotion Tesco has withdrawn a sales promotion
after being told by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency that giving away free medicines is illegal ...more
471 Industry
code of practice to be discussed Employees from 50 pharmaceutical
companies in the UK are planning to talk to pharmacists and other health
care professionals next week about the code of practice that governs
their work ...more
471 Panel set
up to promote good practice in health research Good practice
in health research in universities, the NHS and industry is to be promoted
by a UK-wide initiative launched last week ...more
471 Welsh pharmacist
appointed vice-chairman of British Pharmacopoeia Commission A
senior quality assurance pharmacist in Wales, V'Iain Fenton-May, has
been appointed vice-chairman of the British Pharmacopoeia Commission
and is the UK nomination to the European Pharmacopoeia Commission ...more
471 Suicide rates
in England are the lowest on record Current rates of suicide
in England are the lowest on record, according to the 2005 National Suicide
Prevention Strategy for England annual report from the National Institute
for Mental Health in England (NIMHE). Furthermore, the suicide rate among
young men has continued to fall, says the institute ...more
471 AAH launches
MUR support pack AAH has launched a support pack to help raise
patients' awareness of medicines use review and prescription intervention
services ...more
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