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207 Royal Pharmaceutical
Society of Great Britain to split The Royal
Pharmaceutical Society is to split and regulation of the profession will
be carried out by a new General Pharmaceutical Council. A royal college-style
model is proposed to take on leadership of the profession and the chief
pharmaceutical officers of Britain hope that the Society will take this
opportunity to transform itself into this professional and clinical leadership
body
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208 Value-based drug pricing scheme
needed, OFT says Value-based approaches
to medicines pricing should replace the current Prescription Pricing
Regulation System, the Office of Fair Trading recommended this week
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208 OTC medicines will be considered in contract
applications Primary care trusts will be able to
consider the provision of over-the-counter products when deciding between competing
applications for community pharmacy contracts in England, draft legislation published
last week confirms
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208 New safety criteria to be introduced for
animal medicines Safety criteria under which medicines
for use in food-producing animals can be exempt from prescription control have
been specified by the European Commission
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208 Quality-of-care data to be kept on health
professionals Health care organisations should
maintain files on the quality of the care provided by all professional employees,
the Government recommends
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209 Slow initial uptake of
MURs Medicines use reviews (MURs) were slow to
take off during the first year of the new community pharmacy contract, with the
number provided representing less than 7 per cent of the maximum for which funding
was allocated, according to research published in The Journal this week
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209 UK pandemic flu plan tested The Government's response to a human influenza pandemic was tested this week in an exercise dubbed “Winter willow”
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209 Antibiotic use and resistance link demonstrated A
study demonstrating the direct link between antibiotic use and emergence of bacterial
resistance has been published in The Lancet
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209 First prescriptions written by pharmacist
independent prescribers in primary care Beth Hird,
senior practice pharmacist at Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust,
became the first pharmacist in England to write a prescription independently
this week. She was also the first pharmacist to register as an independent prescriber
with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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210 Barcode all medicines
and patients, DoH suggests All medicines and patients
in England should be given barcodes that use the coding system developed by GS1
and which is already used for most medicines, the Department of Health has recommended
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210 CD guidance issued in Scotland Guidance
on managing Controlled Drugs has been issued this week by the Scottish Executive
Health Department. It specifies how NHS Scotland will respond to the requirements
of last year's Health Act 2006 and subsequent Controlled Drug Regulations
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210 Doctors need calculations training The
ability of junior doctors to perform drug dose calculations has been called into
question by the results of a survey published this week. The authors recommend
that drug administration training should be reinforced during doctors' first
years of practice
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210 Discharge medication lists miss out a fifth
of medicines taken by patients, study finds Accuracy
of medication lists for patients discharged from hospital needs to be improved
to prevent inappropriate use of medicines and adverse drug reactions, a recent
study suggests
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211 Consultation starts on
contract application feesCharges of up to £3,000 could be levied on contractors applying to provide pharmaceutical services in England
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211 Society meets Scottish minister at party
conference Lyndon Braddick, director of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society's Scottish Office, met Nicol Stephen MSP, Deputy First
Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland, at last week's Scottish
Liberal Democrat spring conference
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211 Carers to benefit from pharmacists' advice
through Ask About Medicines initiative A project in which pharmacists teach carers about the importance of medicines management and patient concordance achieved national recognition earlier this month when it won a £1,000 ASK grant towards expanding its work
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211 Public health developments to pharmacy contract
in Lothian All community pharmacies in Lothian
will be visited during the next two weeks as part of the development of the public
health service (PHS) in Scotland
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211 Pfizer/UniChem deadlines Pharmacists
who have signed up to Pfizer's direct-to-pharmacy distribution scheme but are
concerned that they have not been notified of order-cut-off and delivery times
will find out what is happening next week
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212 New treatment available
for grass pollen allergy Patients who suffer from allergic rhinitis brought on by grass pollen could benefit from a new immunotherapy launched this month by ALK-Abelló, a company that specialises in specific allergy treatments
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212 Montelukast/salmeterol combination not recommended Patients
with moderate asthma should not change from an inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting
beta2 agonist (LABA) to a combination of a leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRA)
and a LABA, data from a crossover study of 192 patients indicate
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