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759 Consider
supplying EHC in advance, says Society Pharmacists can supply
emergency hormonal contraception in advance but they must consider the
clinical appropriateness of a supply when faced with a request, says
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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759 S60 Order
published; expected to come into force early in 2007 The long-awaited
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Order 2007 has been published as
a draft Statutory Instrument
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759 Electronic care records
to go ahead with mixed consent model From spring 2007, the electronic
summary care record will be implemented in early adopter sites in England but
patients will be able to amend records and choose to opt out if they wish, health
minister Lord Warner said this week
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760 How
to obtain oxygen away from home Arrangements for supplying oxygen
to patients from Scotland during visits to England and Wales, and vice versa,
are outlined in an NHS circular published by the Scottish Executive this week.
Patients need to be aware of the different routes of supply (ie, regional oxygen
suppliers in England and Wales, and pharmacies in Scotland)
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760 Welsh school will
jointly host burns research centre The UK's first major centre for
burns research is to be hosted by the Welsh School of Pharmacy, in partnership
with the schools of medicine and dentistry at Cardiff University and Morriston
Hospital Swansea
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760 Scottish Drug Tariff
changes Changes to the Scottish Drug Tariff have been set out in two
NHS circulars published this week
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760 Adjustments to reimbursement/remuneration
switch still needed Contractors in Scotland have been told that the
transfer of money from reimbursement to remuneration, scheduled to take place
in this financial year, might not be completed. Instead, further adjustments
could be needed early in the next financial year
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760 NPC launches campaign
to improve statin prescribing Resources to support high quality, cost
effective prescribing and medicines management of statins are available through
an online campaign, launched last week by the National Prescribing Centre
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760 Company law to change
with approval of Companies Bill The Companies Bill received Royal
Assent last month and introduces changes to simplify and improve UK company law
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761 NPSA
to change its focus as part of new patient safety strategy Procedures designed to improve patient safety are to be overhauled next year, including a redesign of the National Patient Safety Agency's National Reporting and Learning System and of the NPSA itself. The recommendations come in “Safety first: a report for patients, clinicians and health care managers”, published by the Department of Health last week as part of a renewed national strategy for patient safety
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761 Delay to conclusions
on reimbursement of branded generics The Department of Health is deferring
its conclusions on the reimbursement of branded generic drugs, following its
consultation on the subject, until after it has received the Office of Fair Trading
report on the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme, expected early in 2007
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761 Reporting systems
miss many patient safety incidents Routine incident reporting systems
considerably under-report the scale and severity of patient safety incidents,
according to research published online in BMJ First last week
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761 Guidance published
on primary medical services A guide to primary medical services for potential contractors — including pharmacists — has been published by NHS Primary Care Contracting
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762 Long-term
HIV study confirms lack of advantage of three-class strategy for initial antiretroviral
therapy For HIV-infected patients, a treatment regimen containing
three classes of antiretroviral drugs offers no advantages over a two-class strategy
for immunological and clinical outcomes, and is associated with increased toxic
effects, data from a long-term trial reveal
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762 Bevacizumab plus chemotherapy
improves survival in lung cancer Addition of bevacizumab to a standard
platinum-based, two-agent chemotherapy regimen in the treatment of selected patients
with non-small-cell lung cancer improves survival but is associated with an increased
risk of treatment-related deaths, according to research published
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762 Ertapenem as prophylaxis Ertapenem,
a long-acting carbepenem, is more effective than the cephalosporin cefotetan
in preventing surgical site infections in patients undergoing elective colorectal
surgery, researchers report. However, they warn that ertapenem may be associated
with more Clostridium difficile infections
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762 Regulators' review
of substance misuse services published Improvements can be made across
all areas of community prescribing services for substance misusers, according
to a review by the Healthcare Commission and the National Treatment Agency for
Substance Misuse
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763 Modest
intake of cranberry juice OK with warfarin The significance of an
interaction between cranberry juice and warfarin has been called into question
by the authors of a recent study
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763 Call for folic acid
fortification of flour to be mandatory Mandatory fortification of
flour with folic acid in the UK is one of the recommendations made by the Scientific
Advisory Committee on Nutrition in its final report on folic acid and disease
prevention
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763 Low daily alcohol
intake may prevent rheumatoid arthritis Mice ingesting low levels
of alcohol on a daily basis have a reduced risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis,
researchers report
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