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387 No single clinical
group can dominate new PECs New Department
of Health guidance on primary care trust professional executive committees
(PECs) says that their membership should be locally determined with practising
clinical professionals in the majority. It adds that no one clinical
group should dominate
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387 Feedback sought on updated medicines
use review form Pharmacists in England
and Wales are being invited to test a new version of the medicines use
review form that has been produced following a recent review and consultation
conducted by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the
Department of Health
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387 Technicians will seek membership of future
leadership body Pharmacy technicians will seek
membership of any future professional leadership body that emerges following
the Government's decision to split the functions of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society. And, as The Journal went to press, the King's Fund released a report
indicating support for a royal college for the pharmacy profession
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387 Home reviews do not improve quality of life Home-based
medication reviews by pharmacists appear to reduce the number of medicines prescribed,
but have no effect on quality of life measures, a paper published
online suggests
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387 Remuneration in Scotland Transitional remuneration arrangements for community pharmacy in Scotland are to remain in place in 2007–08, with an uplift of 2 per cent
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388 Six in 10 hospital pharmacists have to work unpaid overtime to complete their daily workload Almost
60 per cent of pharmacy staff say they do not have enough time to carry out their
work, according to a survey of NHS staff conducted by the Healthcare Commission
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388 DoH says human rights should be brought
into health care planning NHS Trusts in England
have been told to consider people's human rights as a means of delivering more
effective and better quality person-centred health care
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388 Patient questionnaire awaits Welsh Assembly
approval Community pharmacists in Wales need to
wait for the Welsh Assembly Government to confirm it is satisfied with the format
of the community pharmacy patient questionnaire before they can start using it
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388 Alliance Boots bid raised; other companies
showing interest Alliance Boots has opened its books to inspection by private equity group KKR and Stefano Pessina after the group increased its informal offer to £10.2bn (£10.40 per share) from £9.7bn. Despite this, there has still been no formal takeover offer
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389 E-prescribing would help
hospitals control infection Hospitals will continue
to struggle to control outbreaks of infectious diseases unless they introduce
electronic prescribing, says the Health Protection Agency
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389 Feedback on prescribing habits can help
reduce cases of C difficile Pharmacists'
feedback to doctors about their prescribing habits can help reduce cases of Clostridium
difficile and increase prescribing of narrow-spectrum, rather than broad-spectrum,
antibiotics, a study published online suggests
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389 Age exemption checks no longer required
if proof is in place Pharmacists in Scotland are
no longer required to check proof of exemption from NHS prescription charges
on age grounds, provided the patient's date of birth is recorded on the patient
medication record or is specified on a computer-generated prescription (electronic
or paper). Checks must still be carried out for handwritten prescriptions
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389 DoH consults on law change to combat infectious
disease Proposals to update legislation on the
control of infectious diseases have been published by the Department of Health
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390 Paracetamol pack cuts
had little effect on suicides New research has
shown that restricting the size of packs of paracetamol sold over the counter
since 1998 might have had no effect in reducing the number of deaths from suicide
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390 Project seeks to improve safety of injectables Safety
issues affecting injectable medicines are to be tackled through a project established
by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency
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390 Safety concerns lead to withdrawal of pergolide
in the US Pergolide, a Parkinson's disease therapy, is being withdrawn from the US market because of its potential to cause heart valve damage, the US Food and Drug Administration has announced. No similar action is being taken in the UK or Europe, although measures introduced in 2004–05 to reduce the risk associated with the drug continue to be monitored
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390 EMEA orders revision of telithromycin indications Telithromycin
(Ketek; sanofi-aventis) should only be used to treat cases of bronchitis, sinusitis
and tonsillitis/pharyngitis caused by bacterial strains that are suspected or
proven to be resistant to macrolide and beta-lactam antibiotics, the European
Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended, following a review by its Committee
for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)
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391 Study shows benefit of
omega-3s Adding an omega-3 fatty acid to standard
treatment with a statin provides further protection against major coronary events,
a five-year study of Japanese patients with hypercholesterolaemia suggests
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391 Study clarifies first-choice treatment options
for epilepsy Lamotrigine should be the drug of
first choice to treat most patients with partial epilepsy, and valproate should
remain first-line treatment for those with generalised and unclassifiable epilepsy,
according to two articles published
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391 Core skills for enhanced services in Wales
should be defined by working group The core competencies
required to provide enhanced services in Wales should be defined by a working
group, Community Pharmacy Wales, local health boards and the Welsh Assembly Government
have agreed
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391 Practice leaflet content agreed Information
that must be included in community pharmacy practice leaflets in England has
been agreed. Details are available on the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee website
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391 Influenza programme announced The Department of Health has set out details of the influenza immunisation programme for 2007–08
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391 Discharge planning criticised Some 70 per cent of GP practices say that they receive hospital discharge summaries late “fairly often” or “very often”, according to an NHS Alliance survey of over 650 general practices
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