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645 APPG
complaint upheld by standards committee Complaints against
three all-party groups, including the All-Party Pharmacy Group, have
been upheld by the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges.
The committee has suggested several changes to tighten the regulation
of relations between outside groups and all-party groups ...more
645 Students
affected by industrial action may proceed with training Final-year
pharmacy students who have completed all of their MPharm assessments
but whose examinations have not been marked, or the marks withheld owing
to industrial action by lecturers, will still be allowed to enter preregistration
training ...more
645 Plans outlined
for Welsh prescription charge entitlement card to combat health tourism Everyone
who lives in Wales will be able to pay Welsh prescription charges, regardless
of where their GP is based, health minister Brian Gibbons announced last
week ...more
646 Membership/registration
do not need to be linked Registration as a practising pharmacist
and membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society do not need to be
linked, members of the National Pharmacy Association's board have argued
...more
646 Private company
challenges monopoly of GPs with first contract to run medical practice For
the first time, a private company has won a contract to run a GP practice
and walk-in centre, health minister Lord Warner announced last week ...more
646 NPA worries
over loss of care homes business Concern over the loss of
care homes business from independent pharmacies to multiples has prompted
the National Pharmacy Association to try to redress the balance between
the two ...more
646 Scottish
e-library relaunched NHS Scotland's e-library has been relaunched and is now available to the public in addition to NHS staff
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646 Chlamydia
screening value Benefits of chlamydia screening programmes
might have been overestimated, say researchers who analysed data from
43,715 women in Uppsala, Sweden ...more
647 NPSA issues
morphine/diamorphine safety notice Ways that NHS organisations can minimise harm to patients receiving high-dose morphine or diamorphine have been highlighted in a safer practice notice issued by the National Patient Safety Agency last week
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647 Advice issued
to minimise side effects with venlafaxine Updated advice for prescribing venlafaxine (Efexor) to minimise the risk of side effects, especially in overdose, has been issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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647 ACE inhibitors
may prevent certain cancers Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may prevent people from developing certain cancers, according to data presented last week at a Digestive Disease Week conference held in Los Angeles, California
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647 Unlicensed
drugs — community pharmacists need support Community
pharmacists need more support when they are involved in the supply of
unlicensed medicines. This is the conclusion of a research project carried
out by Saima Afzal, a preregistration trainee at Glasgow Royal Infirmary,
which last week won her the 2006 Pfizer Award for preregistration trainees
in Scotland ...more
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648 Electronic
care records will be at least two years late Plans to implement
the electronic national care records service are running at least two
years behind schedule, according to health minister Lord Warner ...more
648 Patient involvement
resource centre opens A new patient and public involvement
resource centre was due to open as The Journal went to press.
The centre aims to develop and support NHS staff and organisations in
order to involve people in local health services ...more
648 Patients
not given full details about take-home medicines Only 40 per
cent of inpatients believe they are given a complete explanation about
their medicines' side effects when leaving hospital, according to results
of a 2005 survey released last week by the Healthcare Commission ...more
648 Four new
pharmacy advisory boards replace Numark’s regional committees New
pharmacy advisory boards have been introduced by Numark to help shape
the future of their independent pharmacy business ...more
649 MHRA uncovers
inappropriate procedures in Northwick Park trial Inadequate
training, incomplete documentation and inappropriate procedures have
been uncovered in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's
report into the adverse events experienced during the clinical trial
of TGN1412 at Northwick Park Hospital, London, in March ...more
649 TNF inhibitor
side effects in rheumatoid arthritis studied Patients with
rheumatoid arthritis treated with tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors
may be at an increased risk of serious infection or malignancy, according
to a meta-analysis published ...more
649 Imported
cases of chikungunya infection in UK increasing An increase
of imported cases of chikungunya infection in the UK has been highlighted
by the Health Protection Agency ...more
649 Warning images
for tobacco products planned Images of smoking-related diseases
that might be displayed on packs of cigarettes and other tobacco products
are in Government proposals that have been opened to consultation ...more
649 FIP calls
for smoke-free World Cup The International Pharmaceutical
Federation (FIP) has joined other health organisations in calling for
a smoke-free World Cup competition ...more
649 Heatwave
plan published Reducing the number of excess deaths from heat
is the aim of an updated heatwave plan published last week by the Department
of Health ...more
649 WHO director
general Anders Nordström is to serve as acting director
general of the World Health Organization following the death of Lee Jong-Wook
last week ...more
650 Children
with HIV underdosed with antiretrovirals Problems in prescribing
drugs for children were highlighted by research published in the BMJ last
week which shows that children with HIV in the UK and Ireland have been
underdosed with antiretrovirals for the past nine years ...more
650 Inhaled ciclosporin
offers lung function benefits to patients after lung transplantation Lung
transplant patients who receive inhaled ciclosporin have better lung
function two years after surgery compared with patients given placebo
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