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535 Greater
interprofessional co-operation is needed Insufficient co-operation
between health professionals threatens service improvements, the All
Party Pharmacy Group warned following last week’s evidence session
for its inquiry into the future of pharmacy
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535 More consistent
approach to patient safety across the NHS required Patient
safety must be emphasised more consistently within the NHS, according
to this year’s State of Healthcare Report, published by the Healthcare
Commission this week
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535 Health minister open
to care record access Health minister Andy Burnham has agreed
to raise the issue of pharmacists’ access to the NHS Care Record database
with Lord Warner, the minister responsible for IT. The assurance came during
a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Patient Safety held in London
last week
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535 Society warns of pharmacist’s
behaviour Pharmacy employers have been alerted to the behaviour of
a pharmacist who violently attacked a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s
staff after being told that he was to be struck off the Register for professional
misconduct
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536 Twice-daily deliveries
at risk if others follow Pfizer arrangements Twice-daily deliveries
to pharmacies would be threatened if other manufacturers follow Pfizer’s
lead in changing supply arrangements, MP Sandra Gidley (Lib Dem, Romsey) warned
this week
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536 PSNC calls
for national minor ailments service National implementation
of a minor ailments service as an essential service under the new pharmacy contract
has been called for by the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee
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536 Wholesaler
rift widens as European meeting disrupted Alliance Boots’s wholesale
and commercial affairs director, Ornella Barra, is accused this week of disrupting
a European Association of Pharmaceutical Full-line Wholesalers (GIRP) meeting,
which took place in Brussels
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536 Guild of Healthcare
Pharmacists calls again for recruitment and retention premiums The
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has once again called for recruitment and retention
premiums of up to £4,244 for hospital pharmacists
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537 DoH
figures indicate PBC progress Primary care trusts and GP practices
continue to make progress towards adopting practice-based commissioning (PBC),
according to figures released
by the Department of Health last week. However, whether PCTs are truly
engaging in practice-based commissioning has been questioned
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537 Erewash self
care project changes attitude more than behaviour Significant changes
in the public’s attitude to self care have been achieved by a 12-month
project commissioned by the Proprietary Association of Great Britain. But the
change in attitude has only been matched by minor changes in behaviour
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537 Guideline
highlights legal implications of crushing tablets Crushing tablets
or opening capsules should only be carried out as a last resort and could have
important medical and legal consequences,
according to a consensus guideline for the medicines management of people
with dysphagia published last week
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538 Patient
groups should disclose financial support A survey of patient groups
based in the US has revealed that seven of 29 groups received at least 20 per
cent of their funding from pharmaceutical
and medical device companies
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538 Involve patients
in CV disease prevention decisions, say experts Aggressive
cardiovascular disease prevention strategies are “medicalising” patients
but without involving them in understanding the risks, experts suggest
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538 WHO initiative
to combat medicines-related corruption Anti-corruption specialists
are to join experts in medicines in a new initiative launched by the World
Health Organization
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538 New agreement
defines counterfeiting as serious crime Counterfeiting medicines
is to be defined as a serious crime under plans for a new convention announced
by the Council of Europe
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538 NHS fraudsters
face parallel actions under new policy Health professionals who defraud
the NHS are to face criminal, professional disciplinary and civil recovery proceedings
all at the same time, the
NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service has announced
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539 Greater
focus on needle exchange schemes needed The prevalence of HIV infection
in injecting drug users (IDUs) is around double that seen at the beginning of
the decade, a recent report reveals
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539 Poor results for methadone
programme in Scotland, report researchers Questions over the
effectiveness of the methadone programme in Scotland were posed this week by
researchers from Glasgow
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539 Dispensing doctors
want one register for all dispensing staff There should be
one register that covers all dispensing staff, no matter where they work, the
Dispensing Doctors’ Association suggests in its response to the Foster
review of non-medical regulation
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540 Further
evidence suggests neutral effect of statins on risk of cancer Further
evidence to suggest that statins are not associated with an increased or decreased
risk of cancer has emerged in a meta-analysis
published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology
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540 Once daily mesalazine
induces remission in colitis A new 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) drug
formulation for ulcerative colitis is likely to be launched in the UK next year,
allowing once daily
dosing for a condition in which compliance is a particular problem
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540 Review supports protective
effect of COX-2s but not statins against colorectal cancer Patients
who take cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors have a reduced risk of developing
colorectal cancer (CRC), suggests a retrospective
analysis of UK general practice data
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540 New
musculoskeletal framework Primary care trusts will want to exploit
all opportunities for increasing the input and influence of pharmacists and community
pharmacies to support
the improved care of people with musculoskeletal conditions, according
to new guidance
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540 Chlamydia screening
on track Chlamydia screening has increased by over a third in the
past year, according to the National Chlamydia Screening Programme 2005–06
annual report
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541 Anti-obesity drugs
needed unless attitudes change Unless there is a complete revision
of attitudes to obesity, drug therapies should continue to play an important
role in treatment, the authors
of a Lancet article published online on 27 October argue
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541 Rimonabant leads to
modest weight loss, Cochrane review concludes Use of rimonabant
for one year could produce moderate weight loss of about 5 per cent, according
to a Cochrane review of the anti-obesity
drug, which was launched in the UK earlier this year
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541 MHRA rules that Superdrug
advertisements were illegal Superdrug broke the law on medicines
advertising earlier this year in its summer magazine, the Medicines and Healthcare
products Regulatory
Agency has ruled
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541 Nucare members struggle
since control of entry change Many independent pharmacies do not find
it financially viable to open on Saturdays, Nucare has pointed out in its response to
the Department of Health’s review of
pharmacy control-of-entry reforms
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541 All Wales business
rate relief scheme will help pharmacy Adoption of an all Wales small
business rate relief scheme will support the existence of the community pharmacy
as an important part of the
local business infrastructure, says the National Pharmacy Association
in its response to the Welsh Assembly Government’s consultation
on plans to introduce the scheme
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