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299 Minister
launches national framework to support establishment of pharmacists with
special interests A national framework and guidance to support
the establishment of pharmacists with special interests (PhwSIs) was
launched by minister of state for delivery and quality, Andy Burnham,
at the 2006 British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester this week
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299 Support for
closer working with GPs to manage long-term conditions Support
for pharmacists wishing to contribute to the care of patients with long-term
conditions comes in a document launched at the British Pharmaceutical
Conference in Manchester this week
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299 Regulator and leadership
body do not need to be within same organisation, says Keith Ridge There
needs to be a close understanding between the profession's leadership body and
the profession's regulator but the two do not need to be part of the same organisation,
Keith Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, said during a debate held
at the British Pharmaceutical Conference in Manchester earlier this week
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300 Commissioning needs
to be informed by strategic pharmaceutical advice, says Society's President Commissioning
of NHS services has to be informed by strategic pharmaceutical advice and medicines
management expertise if it is to be fully effective, Hemant Patel, President
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, told health minister Andy Burnham in his
address to the 2006 British Pharmaceutical Conference held in Manchester earlier
this week
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300 Push for enhanced services “must come from you”, pharmacists told Now
is the time to push enhanced services, Andy Burnham, minister of state for delivery
and quality, told participants at the 2006 British Pharmaceutical Conference
in Manchester this week
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300 Bradford professor
receives Harrison Memorial Medal Peter York, professor of physical
pharmaceutics at the University of Bradford and a fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society, was awarded the Harrison Memorial Medal at the British Pharmaceutical
Conference this week
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300 News in brief Section
60 Order on horizon / Review of CPPE
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301 Changes
to homoeopathic remedy licensing announced by MHRA New rules,
to be introduced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency, will create a more level market in homoeopathic remedies
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301 PSNC reveals
underpayment of pharmacies Checks of the accuracy of prescription
pricing by the NHS in England showed that contractors were paid on average
0.05 per cent less than they were due in the past financial year
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301 CHRE highlights information
barriers faced by the Society Regulatory difficulties faced by the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society in two areas have been highlighted by the Council
for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
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301 Department appoints
new director general of workforce Clare Chapman, currently group personnel
director at Tesco, has been appointed director general of workforce for the NHS
and social care at the Department of Health
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301 Boots joins National
Pharmacy Association Boots The Chemists will be joining the National
Pharmacy Association
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301 Alliance Boots moves
forward with its expansion in Ireland Alliance Boots is to open 30 new stores across the Irish Republic over the next five years, in a €50m expansion programme. By 2011, it aims to have more than 70 outlets in the country
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301 NICE to tackle practices
that persist without evidence base The National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence will begin a new programme to help the NHS to reduce
the amount of money spent on treatments that lack a sound evidence base, the
Department of Health has announced this week
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302 NPSA
recommends anticoagulant role for pharmacy Pharmacists could play
a greater role in the provision of anticoagulant care, new recommendations from
the National Patient Safety Agency and the British Committee for Standards in
Haematology suggest
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302 MHRA seeks new advisers Experts
in clinical pharmacology are among those being asked to apply for new positions
on the independent scientific advisory committee (ISAC) for the Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory Agency database research
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302 Community pharmacy
wins PCT contract to supply aseptic products for palliative care Manor Pharmacy — a 46 strong community pharmacy multiple in the East Midlands — has won a contract from Erewash Primary Care Trust to prepare and supply pre-filled syringes of medicines for use in palliative care
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302 Pharmacists can help
asthma management Community pharmacists can help people with asthma
better manage their condition, Australian research presented in two abstracts
at the European Respiratory Society congress in Munich this week has shown
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303 Further
ASCOT data support case for amlodipine-based therapy Patients receiving
calcium channel blocker-based antihypertensive therapy are less likely to develop
new-onset diabetes than those receiving beta-blocker-based therapy, according
to a reanalysis of data from the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT)
presented at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona this week
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303 New data provide metabolic
syndrome insight Patients with both coronary heart disease and metabolic
syndrome are good candidates for intensive lipid-lowering therapy, according
the authors of a study
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303 Vaccination could
reduce cervical cancer cases by 76 per cent Prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) could achieve a 76 per cent reduction in the prevalence of cervical cancer, a modelling study presented at the International Papillomavirus Conference in Prague this week has shown
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