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513 Royal college
should be new entity, says Lord Hunt The
proposed royal college-type body for pharmacy should be a new entity,
not a reincarnation of the present Royal pharmaceutical Society, Lord
Hunt, the minister with responsibility for pharmacy believes
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513 Pharmacy bodies put forward options
for establishing royal college Representatives
of 44 pharmacy bodies met this week to discuss ways of establishing a
royal college-type body for the profession at the invitation of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society
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514 Positive results for asthma
MURs Medicines use reviews for patients with asthma
improve their understanding, prompt them to change the way they take their medicines
and improve their asthma control, according to a survey commissioned by Lloydspharmacy
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514 Charity highlights regional variations in
use of hospital emergency services for asthma The
number of patients going to accident and emergency departments with asthma varies
considerably across different regions of England, according to a report released
this week by Asthma UK to coincide with World Asthma Day (1 May)
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514 Successful pharmacy weight management pilot
extended A community pharmacy-based weight management
service in Ayrshire is being extended following a successful pilot
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514 NHS pharmacist numbers NHS
pharmacy staff numbers remain on a par with those of recent years, the 2006 NHS
workforce census suggests
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514 Diabetes screening Tesco
Pharmacy has launched a free diabetes screening service
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514 Lloydspharmacy grows The
Lloydspharmacy chain has bought the 29 pharmacy-strong Manichem chain
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515 Rigorous accreditation
process for PhwSIs revealed Community pharmacists
who want to become pharmacists with special interests (PhwSIs) will have to undergo
a rigorous accreditation process in order to undertake advanced clinical practice.
Details of the new process were revealed in guidance launched by health minister
Andy Burnham last week
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515 HPA reports on malaria cases Nearly
80 per cent of the 1,758 cases of malaria reported in UK travellers last year
were caused by the potentially fatal Plasmodium falciparum, according to Health
Protection Agency figures
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515 Faulty equipment campaign The
public has been urged to report faults found with medical equipment as part of
a campaign launched this week by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency
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515 Supplementary prescribing funding extended Scottish
funding for supplementary prescribing clinics will continue in 2007-08, with
money also on offer for new clinics. This will cover the transitional period
until the introduction of the chronic medication service in April 2008
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515 Pharmacist convicted of fraud over stop-smoking
service Pharmacist Anil Shah, of Dearcare Pharmacy, Richmond Way, London, has been fined £3,000 plus £1,500 costs after being found guilty of three counts of defrauding the NHS
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516 Alliance Boots calls for
access to electronic records All community pharmacists
should have access to a core set of clinical information about patients in order
to reach the full potential of their professional roles and to fulfil their responsibilities
under the new contract, Alliance Boots says in its written response to the Parliamentary
Health Committee's inquiry into the electronic care record
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516 AMS will test electronic prescription transfer Scotland's
acute medication service (AMS) will initially be used to demonstrate the process
of electronic transfer of prescriptions, the Scottish Executive confirmed this
week
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516 Evaluation of summary care record to start
this month Evaluation of the summary care record
early adopter programme will start this month and will be carried out by University
College London, NHS Connecting for Health announced last week
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516 EPS approval for Eclipse Hadley
Healthcare Solutions has now been given the go-ahead by NHS Connecting for Health
for its electronic prescription service-compatible eclipsePMR system to be deployed
in England
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516 Director of NHS national knowledge service
predicts expanded role for chief pharmacists With
the development of prescriptions for knowledge as well as medicines, chief pharmacists
will become chief knowledge officers for medicines, according to Sir Muir Gray,
director of the NHS National Knowledge Service
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517 Decongestant switch is
disproportionate to the risk Making all products
containing pseudo-ephedrine prescription medicines is a disproportionate response
to the threat posed by the drug's illicit conversion to methylamphetamine. That
is the view set out by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in a submission to a
Parliamentary inquiry into reclassification plans announced by the Medicines
and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency earlier this year
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517 Reimbursement concession for amlodipine
besilate to end in two months' time Pharmacy contractors
in England and Wales have been warned by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee that the concession for reimbursement of amlodipine besilate will end
on 1 July
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517 NPA welcomes commissioning assessments Plans
announced by the Healthcare Commission to assess practice-based commissioning,
in terms of outcomes achieved for the resources invested, have been welcomed
by the National Pharmacy Association
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517 Check for payment of Protected Professional
Allowance Eligible contractors are advised to check whether they have received the Protected Professional Allowance — the fee payable to pharmacies that existed before 1 April 2005 and which dispense few prescriptions
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518 Clostridium difficilecases rise in 2006, HPA reveals Cases
of Clostridium difficile infection in patients over 65 years of age are increasing,
figures released last week by the Health Protection Agency indicate
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518 Increase in haemorrhagic stroke due to antithrombotic
use Despite a substantial fall in hypertension-associated
intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke over the past 25 years, the overall number
of over 75 year olds dying of intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke has not fallen.
This is in part due to an increase in cases associated with antithrombotic use,
research published online this week suggests
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518 Reducing salt intake lowers risk of cardiovascular
events Sodium reduction, previously shown to lower
blood pressure, may also reduce long-term risk of cardiovascular events, according
to research published
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518 UK Biobank begins — volunteers seen
at assessment centres in Manchester and Oxford The
UK Biobank project, which aims to collect genetic and lifestyle information from
500,000 volunteers for use in research, has kicked off in England
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