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523 Independent
pharmacist prescribing becomes legal, but no training courses are available
yet Pharmacists were given the legislative go-ahead to prescribe
independently this week. However the first prescribers are not likely
to qualify until the end of the year ...more
523 Discount
change focuses attention on GSK trading scheme Changes announced
last week to the zero-discount scheme for NHS pharmacy reimbursement
in England and Wales have focused attention on GlaxoSmithKline's trading
terms ...more
523 NHS to oversee
transition to home oxygen service NHS staff will oversee the final transition of the home oxygen service to the new suppliers, NHS Primary Care Contracting announced last week
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523 Mezzanine
floor development to require permission Retailers wishing
to expand their sales space by building a mezzanine floor will be subject
to new restrictions from 10 May ...more
524 Agenda for
Change could be a missed opportunity Agenda for Change will
be a missed opportunity if NHS trusts see it as just a new pay system,
rather than a chance to redesign jobs and services, according to Andrew
Foster, who recently resigned as director of workforce at the Department
of Health ...more
524 Department
of Health fails to renew DTB contract for NHS NHS
employees may no longer have free access to clinical evidence from the
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin if the Department of Health decides not
to renew the contract for the Which? publication ...more
524 Hewitt sees
pharmacist prescribing benefits Health secretary Patricia Hewitt visited Dudley Beacon & Castle Primary Care Trust last week and met practice-based pharmacist Nazir Hussain
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524 Out-of-hours
care fails on quality standards Providers of out-of-hours
GP services are not meeting quality requirements, particularly those
relating to timely response, according to a National Audit Office report
...more
524 Influenza
containment Restricting air travel from countries where there
is a serious influenza outbreak will do little to prevent the spread
of infection, a mathematical modelling study by the Health Protection
Agency reveals ...more
525 New era for
diagnostic devices could save millions Within the next decade,
pharmacies could help save the NHS millions of pounds a year by stocking
diagnostic devices for use at home for detecting sexually transmitted
diseases, a Department of Trade and Industry report suggests ...more
525 Incidents
analysed by pharmacists’ peers Pharmacists in Scotland
have been benefiting from a scheme to improve safety and provision of
patient care via formal peer review analysis of significant events. The
scheme was launched six months ago by NHS Education for Scotland (NES)
and so far 31 incidents have been reported ...more
525 Polygonum
multiflorum warning over liver reactions Patients taking Polygonum
multiflorum may experience liver reactions, including hepatitis and jaundice, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency warned last week
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525 MHRA and
police act on illegal internet medicines trading Investigations
into illegal internet trading in medicines came to a head last week with
co-ordinated Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and
police raids in different parts of England ...more
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526 Pharmacists'
role in PBC outlined How community pharmacists can become
engaged with practice-based commissioning (PBC) is the subject of a resource
published by the National Pharmacy Association last week ...more
526 Undeveloped
anti-cancer drugs given new lease of life Promising anti-cancer
agents left undeveloped by pharmaceutical companies will be taken into
early stage clinical trials under a new initiative, Cancer Research UK
has announced this week ...more
526 New model
proposed for clinical leadership A new model for clinical
leadership in primary care and primary care trusts has been proposed
in a discussion document published by the NHS Alliance ...more
526 Doctors warned
on “shared premises” risk Concerns voiced by
the Irish Pharmaceutical Union over the rapid development in the republic
of one-stop health centres, with GP surgery and pharmacy on the same
premises, have been echoed by the medical profession's ruling body ...more
526 Imaging technologies
may give answers in cancer trials Advances in imaging technologies
could provide knowledge about the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics
of new cancer drugs in clinical trials, according to a recent review
article ...more
526 Drug misuse
Bill Proposals for all drug misusers to receive individual
care plans within seven days of seeking help were put forward in Scotland
last month ...more
527 Studies address
length of treatment for hepatitis C Data from studies addressing
treatment duration for hepatitis C infection were presented at the annual
meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver held in
Vienna last week ...more
527 Acid secretion
affects oral thyroxine absorption Patients with goitre who
also have impaired acid secretion need an increased dose of thyroxine,
Italian researchers say ...more
527 Diabetes
patients who have recovered from depression benefit from continued treatment Patients
with diabetes who recover from a bout of depression benefit from continued
antidepressant treatment, a study shows ...more
527 Diabetes
mortality People with type 2 diabetes aged 35 to 54 years
have over three times the mortality rate of those without the condition
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527 Adults in
England are healthier than their US counterparts Middle-aged
men and women in England are healthier than their US counterparts, a
study suggests ...more
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