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579 Amorolfine
nail lacquer makes switch to P medicine Amorolfine 5 per cent
nail lacquer has this week been launched as a pharmacy medicine. Marketed
as Curanail by Galderma, the product becomes the first once-weekly over-the-counter
treatment for fungal nail infection (onychomycosis) ...more
579 Pharmacist
prescribing increasing but still at low levels Prescribing
by community pharmacists is on the increase, but numbers of prescriptions
are still relatively low, according to new data ...more
579 Pharmacy
emergency planning guidance published Guidance on how to keep
pharmacy services running in an emergency was published this week ...more
580 Prescribing
will increase importance of ADR reporting Pharmacists' role
in reporting adverse drug reactions will become increasingly important
as the part they play in prescribing grows, according to Vivienne Nathanson,
head of ethics and science at the British Medical Association. She was
speaking at the launch of a BMA report into adverse drug reactions (ADRs)
...more
580 New IV antibiotic
launched Some complicated infections in adults can now be
treated by a new intravenous antibiotic launched by Wyeth ...more
580 Lecturers’ boycott
may hit pharmacy exams Industrial action by lecturers over pay may affect the marking of pharmacy examinations at universities across the UK
...more
580 Age-related
macular degeneration treatment launched Patients with neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — a chronic condition causing progessive loss of central vision — may obtain benefit from a new drug, pegaptanib (Macugen), launched by Pfizer
...more
581 Suspension
of supplementary list widely welcomed Pharmacy groups have
welcomed the Department of Health's decision to suspend plans for primary
care trusts in England to set up registers of pharmacists who work in
community pharmacies ...more
581 New minister clarifies “responsible” rule In general, there should be one responsible pharmacist per pharmacy, health minister Andy Burnham said last week
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581 Consider
radical ways to release pharmacists from dispensary, says Keith Ridge Independent
prescribing could and should radically change the way that medicines
are used in health care, and improve patient access to medicines, Keith
Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England told delegates at a recent
conference ...more
581 Exhibition
links art with research into memory degeneration Links between medicinal plants and current research into memory degeneration are explored in a series of artworks being displayed at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales throughout May
...more
582 NHS Direct
plans 15 per cent cuts NHS Direct, the 24-hour telephone advice organisation for the NHS in England, is likely to be slimmed-down because demand for its services is less than had been expected
...more
582 New CD arrangements
in Scotland New arrangements for prescribing and dispensing
Controlled Drugs will start in Scotland on 5 June. The changes mirror
those announced for England earlier this year and are in response to
the recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry ...more
582 New chief
executive appointed at SPGC Harry McQuillan has been appointed the new chief executive officer of the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council. As chief executive, Mr McQuillan will play a central role in the next stage of the new contract negotiations in Scotland
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582 Nucare stops
wholesaling Nucare has decided to stop wholesaling and to
concentrate on providing buying and marketing services for community
pharmacies and on running its own pharmacy chain ...more
582 SMC advice
comes first NHS boards in Scotland have been reminded that
the Scottish Medicines Consortium remains the main source of advice in
Scotland on newly licensed medicines ...more
582 MHRA drafts
advice for users of in vitro test devices Advice
for users of in vitro testing equipment and devices has been drafted
by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for approval
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583 1m prescriptions
sent by ETP More than a million electronic prescriptions have
now been transmitted by NHS Connecting for Health's electronic prescription
service. Up to 9 May, 1,065,067 prescriptions had been transmitted ...more
583 Pharmacy
EHC is more effective Quicker access to emergency hormonal
contraception from community pharmacies using patient group directions
makes it more effective than obtaining it from family planning clinics
...more
583 UKCPA/GHP
award winners This year's United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy
Association and Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists Pfizer patient safety
award has been won by Bryony Dean Franklin, principal pharmacist, clinical
services, and director of the academic pharmacy unit at Hammersmith Hospitals
NHS Trust, for her evaluation of an internet-based medication safety
educational package ...more
583 Clinical
governance course Seven online modules explaining the clinical
governance requirements of the community pharmacy contract have been
developed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the NHS clinical governance
support team ...more
583 NPSA to develop
guide to safer dispensing Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
are being asked to help the National Patient Safety Agency develop a
set of guidelines for safer dispensing ...more
583 Global withdrawal
for contact lens solution A contact lens solution — ReNu
MoistureLoc — linked to an increased incidence of ocular Fusarium
infections in Asia and the US has been withdrawn worldwide by its manufacturer
Bausch & Lomb ...more
584 Number of
PCTs is halved in reorganisation The number of primary care
trusts in England will be reduced from 303 to 152 from 1 October, Secretary
of State for Health Patricia Hewitt announced this week. The decision
follows local consultations, which ended on 22 March ...more
584 Contract
funding negotiations delayed because of health minister's resignation Negotiations
for funding of the community pharmacy contract for 2006–07 in England
and Wales have been delayed following the resignation of health minister
Jane Kennedy, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee revealed
at its May committee meeting ...more
584 Pharmacy
represented on DoH oxygen group Mark Collins, north western
regional representative at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee,
has been appointed to the Department of Health stakeholder group on oxygen
...more
584 Snakes and
ladders game wins poster competition Illustrating the ups
and downs of running a community pharmacy chlamydia service with a snakes
and ladders game has won Lambeth and Southwark's Modernisation Initiative
Sexual Health programme first prize in a poster competition ...more
584 Enhanced
services pricing toolkit published A toolkit to help to price
enhanced services has been published by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee in association with NHS Employers ...more
584 New ministerial
team at the DoH confirmed Responsibilities for the new ministerial
team at the Department of Health have been announced ...more
R&D News
585 Hepatitis
B drug achieves rapid virus suppression Entecavir maintains
greater viral load suppression and lower levels of resistance in hepatitis
B patients compared with lamivudine, suggest data that were presented
at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the
Liver in Vienna last month ...more
585 New drug
combination holds potential for thoracic cancer A combination
of valproic acid and UCN-01 — an experimental anticancer drug — has
the potential to be developed into a targeted therapy for thoracic cancer,
according to data published ...more
585 Novel class
of antibiotics identified A new antibiotic that demonstrates
strong, broad-spectrum gram-positive antibacterial activity by selectively
inhibiting cellular lipid biosynthesis has been discovered by researchers
in the US ...more
585 Bird flu
vaccine with adjuvant shows encouraging results An avian influenza
vaccine including an adjuvant was well tolerated and initiated an antibody
response in over two-thirds of recipients in a phase I trial ...more
586 New approach
to constipation Alvimopan (Entereg), a new class of peripheral
opioid receptor antagonist — designed for treating the gastrointestinal
symptoms associated with opioids — doubled spontaneous bowel movements
in a study of 522 patients, according to data presented at the American
Pain Society annual scientific meeting in San Antonio, Texas, this month
...more
586 Fluoxetine
target identified Fluoxetine targets early progenitor cells
in the adult brain leading to the generation of new neurons, researchers
have discovered ...more
586 Predictable
recovery of fertility after male hormonal contraception Hormonal
male contraception regimens are reversible within four to five months,
according to the authors of a paper ...more
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