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355 Controlled Drug
supply under PGD set to expand Proposals
to expand the range of Controlled Drugs that can be supplied or administered
by pharmacists and nurses working under patient group directions (PGDs)
have been published by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency
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355 Consultation begins on pharmacist
independent prescribing of CDs Whether
pharmacist independent prescribers should be allowed to prescribe Controlled
Drugs is the subject of a Home Office consultation that aims to increase
access to medicines for patients, improving care in areas such as palliative
care, substance misuse, post-operative care and pain relief
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355 PSNC and DoH publish details of community
pharmacy patient questionnaire requirements Details
of the community pharmacy patient questionnaire (formerly referred to as the
patient satisfaction questionnaire) were published last week by the Pharmaceutical
Services Negotiating Committee and the Department of Health
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356 Pharmacists need to see
anticoagulation test results Before dispensing
repeat prescriptions for anticoagulants, community pharmacists should ask to
see patients' latest international normalised ratio results, the National Patient
Safety Agency has recommended
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356 Superintendents must live in UK, say company
chemists Superintendent pharmacists of pharmacy
companies should have to live in the UK, the Company Chemists Association has
said
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356 Pharmacies in information prescription plan Pharmacies
are to be involved in two pilot schemes to test ways of improving the information
patients receive about their illnesses and treatment
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356 Pharmacies might have to print out a quarter
of EPS prescriptions Paper tokens might need to
be generated for over a quarter of prescriptions when release 2 of the electronic
prescription service is introduced later this year. But local pharmaceutical
committee representatives objected to this at their annual conference last week
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357 Agreement backed by 18
pharmacy organisations says that royal college should be all-encompassing Basic
agreement on how a professional leadership body for pharmacy should be set up
was reached at a meeting held in Waterloo, London, earlier this month. The Royal
Pharmaceutical Society was not invited to participate
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357 Still no terms of reference for the Carter
working party With only one more meeting of the
working party set up to advise Lord Carter on the establishment of the General
Pharmaceutical Council and a royal college-type body, its terms of reference
are still under discussion. Lord Carter, who chairs the working party, is due
to write his paper and present it to Government ministers for consideration before
Easter
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357 Professional leadership body should not
have a monopoly on education and training To guard
against complacency and inefficiency, the new professional leadership body for
pharmacy should not have a monopoly on accrediting undergraduate courses and
revalidating practitioners, according to the Council of University Heads of Pharmacy
(CUHOP)
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358 Mixed views on success
of Pfizer distribution scheme Some four weeks into
Pfizer's direct-to-pharmacy distribution arrangement through UniChem views on
the success of the scheme are mixed
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358 Scottish industry manifesto The
Scottish branch of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has
published a manifesto to call on election candidates to recognise the pharmaceutical
industry's contribution to the health and wealth of the nation
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358 Plan the NHS workforce, MPs tell the DoH Workforce planning must become a priority for the health service, the House of Commons Health Committee says in a report that calls the Government's approach “a disastrous failure”
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358 CCA blames primary care trusts for lack
of new pharmacy services Insufficient creative
thinking among commissioners and a lack of appropriate incentives for GP support
is holding back the delivery of patient-centred services by pharmacies, according
to the Company Chemists Association
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359 All change for top positions
at key pharmacy bodies Lawyer Christopher Hodges
has been appointed to chair the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
when Barry Andrews's term of office runs out at the end of August
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359 Pharmacy developments have only just started,
minister says Developments in pharmacy services
have only just begun to scratch the surface of what can be achieved, health minister
Andy Burnham said at last week's Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
annual dinner
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359 Bids sought for EPS release 2 initial implementer
sites Expressions of interest are being sought
from primary care trusts in England to be initial implementer sites for release
2 of the electronic prescription service, health minister Andy Burnham announced
at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee dinner held in London last
week
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359 SPGC to be renamed Community
Pharmacy Scotland is to be the new name of the Scottish Pharmaceutical General
Council, Harry McQuillan, SPGC's chief executive officer, confirmed this week
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359 Medway seeks new head The
universities of Greenwich and Kent are seeking a new head of school for the Medway
School of Pharmacy
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360 Smoking ban helps people
to quit Scotland's ban on smoking in enclosed public
places is inspiring people to quit the habit, health minister Andy Kerr claimed
this week
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360 Consider role pharmacy can play helping
smokers quit after ban in England and Wales Pharmacy
should play a key role in supporting the increased demand on smoking cessation
schemes that will be generated by the smoking bans in England and Wales, the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society has declared
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360 NICE advice on interventions to reduce substance
misuse Anyone who works with young people should
be prepared to identify those who are vulnerable to drug problems and to step
in and help them access the right support and services, says the National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence
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360 Oxygen headset fees agreed Decommissioning
fees for oxygen headsets have been agreed by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee and the Department of Health
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360 MURs will help make best use of free scripts Pharmacists
in Wales can help patients make the best use of free prescriptions by offering
medicines use reviews, says Community Pharmacy Wales
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360 Support for NHS prescription charge reform Widespread
support for reform of NHS prescription charges exists in Scotland, according
to the findings of a Scottish Executive consultation
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361 Low-dose aspirin as effective
as higher dose after percutaneous coronary intervention — and safer Patients
with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
(PCI) experience similarly low rates of cardiovascular events with low-dose aspirin
as those treated with higher doses, but with less risk of major bleeding, according
to results from a major study
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361 Smokers miss out on advice on how to quit Two
out of three smokers are not being told by their doctor about the range of methods
available to help them stop, warns a survey which highlights the need for improved
provision of information on smoking cessation
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361 Illicit drug classification does not reflect
harm assessment The framework used by the UK's
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to assess the risks associated with illicit
drugs is discussed in an article published last week
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361 Testosterone patch may address low libido
in women with surgically induced menopause A transdermal
testosterone patch to treat loss of female sexual desire resulting from surgically
induced menopause has been launched
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