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563 Public
health training places open to pharmacists Pharmacists in the north west of England will be among the first to benefit from “Choosing health” monies, according to Liz Stafford, national primary care liaison manager at Rowlands Pharmacy and a member of the North West Pharmacy Workforce Development Group
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563 Indicative
rates announced for two more national enhanced services for Wales Indicative
rates for two further national enhanced services for Wales have been
set, Community Pharmacy Wales announced this week
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563 Pharmacists' views
on care records are being considered Although pharmacists are not
represented on the NHS Summary Care Record Taskforce their views are being sought,
said public health minister Caroline Flint, in response to a parliamentary question
from MP Sandra Gidley (Lib Dem, Romsey)
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563 BOC sets date for
end of oxygen deliveries to pharmacies BOC will stop delivering home
oxygen cylinders to all community pharmacies in England by December, it was announced
this week
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564 Updated
NHS warning system about dangerous professionals Warning notices about
health professionals who are considered to be a danger to the public are to be
issued under a new system to be introduced for the NHS in England on 6 December
and operated by strategic health authorities (SHAs)
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564 Large-scale pilots
planned by health department to test telecare/telehealth schemes The
Department of Health is planning to conduct large-scale telecare and telehealth
pilots that will involve one million people with complex long-term conditions
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564 GMC and BMA respond
to Donaldson review The opinions of the medical profession's regulator
and its professional association are at odds over several proposals outlined
in chief medical officer Liam Donaldson's review of the regulation of doctors
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564 UniChem and Roche
offer enhanced services deal UniChem and Roche Diagnostics are to
offer diabetes screening kits to independent pharmacists looking to establish
enhanced services under the community pharmacy contract
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565 Pharmacy
education should be a continuous process from student to specialist, say academics The
process of pharmacy education should be continuous from student to specialist,
according to academics and other stakeholders who attended a joint symposium
of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Academic Pharmacy Group and the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London this week
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565 Online learning package
offers paediatric training for community pharmacists Community pharmacists can gain confidence in dealing with children through the use of an online “Paediatric minor ailments electronic learning package”, presented at a Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group conference in Harrogate last week
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565 Booklet for children
with renal problems developed A booklet for children with renal problems,
developed by Angela Lamb, specialist paediatric renal pharmacist at Yorkhill
Renal Unit, Glasgow, looks set to become available across Scotland. The booklet
contains details of the patient's medication, along with a record of the patient's
link nurse and consultant
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565 Statins beneficial
in heart failure In a study involving over 24,000 patients with heart
failure, those who started statin therapy were less likely to die or be admitted
to hospital during the 2.4 years follow-up than patients who did not start statin
therapy
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566 Pharmaceutical
companies urged to have closer link with pharmacy Pharmaceutical companies
need to work more closely with pharmacists and primary care trusts, according
to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
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566 Diabetes commissioning
toolkit published A toolkit to help NHS commissioners — at both a primary care trust and practice level — commission diabetes services has been published by the Department of Health
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566 Involve pharmacists
in respiratory care, says WAG Pharmacists should be involved in the
early assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of respiratory conditions,
the Welsh Assembly Government has suggested
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566 Arnica gel first product
to be granted herbal registration The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has granted the UK's first product registration for a “traditional herbal medicine”
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567 Use
omalizumab only within trials Omalizumab should only be used in the
context of clinical trials, according to the latest edition of the Drug and Therapeutics
Bulletin
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567 Epirubicin plus CMF
superior to CMF alone Epirubicin plus CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate
and fluorouracil) is superior to CMF alone as adjuvant treatment for early breast
cancer, according to researchers who combined the results of two trials involving
2,391 women
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567 Smoking increases
asthma Regular cigarette smoking increases the risk for new onset
asthma among adolescents, a prospective study of 2,609 children reveals
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567 TB cases rise by 11
per cent Tuberculosis diagnoses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
have increased by nearly 11 per cent, according to data released last week by
the Health Protection Agency
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568 NHS
specials database previewed A decision support tool to help NHS pharmacy
staff identify and source unlicensed products made by NHS manufacturing units
was previewed to delegates at a Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists Procurement and
Distribution Interest Group autumn symposium last week
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568 Small amounts of liquids
allowed on flights Air passengers are allowed to carry small amounts
of liquids in their hand baggage from this week. Under revised hand baggage restrictions,
liquids must be in containers of no more than 100ml and all containers of liquids
must fit in a single transparent resealable bag (approximately 20cm x 20cm),
to be viewed by airport security
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568 Relaxed labelling
extended to prescription medicines Recently relaxed rules that allow
medicines manufacturers to update labelling and patient information leaflets
for over-the-counter medicines without prior approval have been extended to prescription
medicines
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568 Information for people
with visual impairment boosted Patient information for people with
visual impairment is available through a new service, developed by Datapharm
Communi-cations and the Royal National Institute of the Blind and launched at
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society this week. Two million people could benefit
from the service
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568 “Analyst” system approved NHS
Connecting for Health has given the go-ahead for national roll-out of Analyst,
the electronic prescription service-compatible pharmacy system from Positive
Solutions. This latest approval brings the number of pharmacy systems authorised
for national roll-out to six, four of which are available commercially
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