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123 Briefing
paper highlights pharmacy's role to PM Ways in which the pharmacy profession is helping to improve Britain's health and how the profession might evolve to complement the Government's public health agenda are discussed in a briefing paper that was distributed to delegates at an “Our nation's future” lecture delivered by Prime Minister Tony Blair in Nottingham this week
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123 Boots plans
to house outpatient services for primary care trusts Some NHS health care services that would normally be offered in hospital outpatient clinics may soon be available in a Boots pharmacy
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124 Pharmacists
need to advise public about allergies Pharmacists can play a crucial
role in providing the public with high-quality information about allergies, a
Department of Health review of allergy services has concluded
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124 Regulators and manufacturers
should work more closely together Regulators and drug developers need
to communicate more closely with one another, and UK schools of medical sciences,
including pharmacy, should consider organising secondments to commercial clinical
trial organisations, the expert scientific group established to examine clinical
trials has concluded
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124 No compelling evidence
for herbal medicine use in COPD There is no compelling evidence to
support the use of herbal medicine for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), according to a systematic review
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124 “Ever smoked” campaign Developing Patient Partnerships has launched a campaign called “Ever smoked” to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease following research commissioned by the health education charity that revealed most people have not heard of the condition
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125 Indicative
rates for enhanced services set in Wales Community Pharmacy Wales and local health boards in Wales have developed “indicative rates” for the provision of three national enhanced services, it was announced last week. Concerns had previously been raised that establishing benchmark prices for enhanced services could contravene the Competition Act
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125 Transitional arrangements
for home oxygen service come to an end but FP10s continue Transitional arrangements for the supply of home oxygen in England and Wales are due to come to an end next week, but pharmacies will continue to be reimbursed for prescriptions for home oxygen until next year, NHS Primary Care Contracting announced last week
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125 AIMp widens membership Members
of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies (AIMp) have approved changes
to the criteria for membership
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125 Welsh prescription
charge From 1 August, the Welsh prescription charge of £3 will only apply automatically to prescriptions on Welsh forms dispensed in pharmacies in Wales
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125 Welsh smoking ban Consultation
began last week on the ban on smoking in enclosed public places in Wales
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125 Health Bill becomes
Act The Health Bill received Royal Assent on 19 July and so becomes
the Health Act 2006
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125 PSNC members An
amendment to the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee constitution will
enable members to be co-opted, rather than elected, if no regional representative
is found in the regional election process
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126 More
work needed to combat C difficile infections Although the
incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitals
is falling, more work is needed to combat other health care associated infections,
such as Clostridium difficile, the Health Protection Agency said this week
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126 Study authors discourage
immediate use of chloramphenicol Delaying the prescribing of antibiotics
for the treatment of conjunctivitis is a more favourable strategy than immediate
treatment with chloramphenicol drops, according to the authors of a recent study
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126 Purulent rhinitis
will get better without antibiotics Antibiotics for treatment of acute
purulent rhinitis, although likely to be effective, should not be used first
line, conclude researchers
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126 “Who regulates health and social care” leaflet launched A leaflet identifying the regulatory body responsible for each health and social care profession and explaining what regulation means is available via the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's website
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127 Over
11,000 scripts written by pharmacists in 2005 Over 11,000 prescriptions
were written by pharmacist supplementary prescribers in England in 2005, statistics
issued by the Department of Health last week reveal
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127 PPRS saves NHS £1.3bn over five years Medicine price cuts of 4.5 per cent agreed in October 1999 had saved the NHS £1.3bn by the end of 2004, the Department of Health's ninth report on the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme reveals
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127 Yorkshire and Humber
PCTs target medicines wastage A new campaign to raise awareness about medicines wastage is advising people to discuss their medicines with a pharmacist or GP on a regular basis
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127 HIV drug regimen better
with efavirenz than nelfinavir Efavirenz is better than nelfinavir
for treating HIV when part of a triple drug regimen using didanosine and stavudine
as the initial nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) backbone,
according to data published
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128 NICE
accepts two drugs for severe plaque psoriasis Etanercept (Enbrel) and efalizumab (Raptiva) have been recommended for the treatment of severe plaque psoriasis by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
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128 NICE publishes guidance
for the management of bipolar disorder This week a new guideline for
the management of people with bipolar disorder has been issued by the National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the National Collaborating Centre
for Mental Health
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128 Imatinib and doxorubicin
implicated in cardiac toxicities Two drugs — imatinib and doxorubicin — have been implicated in the development of cardiac toxicities in studies published this month
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128 Do not mask inappropriate
variations in care, says CMO Professional autonomy must not be used
to mask inappropriate variations in the way evidence is applied to health care,
Sir Liam Donaldson, England's chief medical officer, says in his annual report
published last week
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