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541 Guidance published
on safer CD management in secondary care Guidance
to promote the safe and effective use of Controlled Drugs in secondary
care in England is published this week by the Department of Health and
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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541 Test purchases show flaws in pharmacy
medicine controls Evidence that sales of
decongestants, including pseudoephedrine-containing products, are not
properly controlled in all pharmacies has been published by the Medicines
and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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541 Oncology consultant pharmacist appointed Nicola
Stoner, lead cancer pharmacist at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, has been
appointed a consultant pharmacist
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542 SMC announces latest approvals
and rejections Protein kinase inhibitor dasatinib
(Sprycel; Bristol-Myers Squibb) has been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium
for use in NHS Scotland for the treatment of adults with chronic myeloid leukaemia
(CML) with resistance or intolerance to previous therapy including imatinib mesylate
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542 e-Library opened to community pharmacists Community
pharmacists in Scotland can now use a new information resource, launched last
week by NHS Education for Scotland (NES)
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542 DTB supports switching to generic simvastatin There
is a strong argument for switching patients from branded statins to generic simvastatin,
according to the current issue of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
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543 Doctors highlight cases
of OTC medicines misuse Large-scale research is
needed to monitor and assess the extent of dependence on legal non-prescription
drugs, a letter in the BMJ last week suggests. However, some research in this
area has already been published in pharmacy journals
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543 Patients should use one pharmacy for all
their medicines, says WHO Patients should be encouraged
to use a single pharmacy for all their medicines and for information about them,
the World Health Organization has recommended
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543 Follow epoetin indication and dosing restrictions,
EMEA says Epoetin products should be used strictly
in accordance with the indications and dosing recommendations set out in their
summaries of product characteristics, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has
warned this week in a public statement
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544 Primary care trusts' performers
lists up for review Lists kept by primary care
trusts of health professionals and organisations approved to work in the NHS
in England are being reviewed by the Department of Health
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544 Society commended Royal
Pharmaceutical Society processes for appointing and training members of its new
disciplinary committees have been commended for their independence by the Council
for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
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544 Pharmacists detect more adverse drug events
from drug charts than other health care workers, US study suggests Pharmacists
detect more adverse drug events (ADEs) when reviewing drug charts than other
health care workers, a US study suggests
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544 Pharmacist allowed to appeal Controlled
Drug conviction Pharmacist Gary Fisher is to be
allowed to appeal against his conviction in March 2006 for conspiracy to supply
cocaine
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544 BMA proposes alternative approach to health
reform An alternative approach to health reform
is proposed in a discussion paper published by the British Medical Association
this week
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544 Co-op buys nine branches The
Co-operative Pharmacy has acquired seven pharmacies in South Yorkshire from GH
Rock (Chemists) Ltd and two in South Wales from Mayberry and Morris
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544 Consumers trust pharmacists Pharmacists
are the second most trusted professionals after firefighters, according to a
Reader's Digest survey of 1,900 of its customers
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545 Once-yearly zoledronic
acid reduces fracture risk A once-yearly infusion
of zoledronic acid reduces the risk of vertebral, hip and other fractures in
postmenopausal women, according to new research
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545 UniChem launches scheme for preregistration
training UniChem has launched a preregistration
training programme to support independent pharmacists who want to take on a trainee
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545 Pharmacists should screen for diabetes risk Pharmacists
are being encouraged to identify people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes
in a consensus statement published by the International Diabetes Federation
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545 Anti-EGFRs will cause magnesium loss in
almost all patients Almost all cancer patients
treated with monoclonal antibodies that target epidermal growth factor receptors
(EGFR) will have some degree of hypomagnesaemia, research suggests
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546 WHO criticised for being
too reliant on expert opinion The World Health
Organization has been criticised for being too reliant on expert opinion when
it formulates policy. The criticism coincides with an initiative it has launched
to improve data sharing among researchers, health care professionals and the
public
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546 £25m boost to Nottingham health research Drug
discovery will be among five key areas tackled by a new £25m research
centre at the University of Nottingham
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546 Centralised control planned for advanced
therapies in EU Centralised European Union authorisation
for advanced therapies came a step closer last month when the European Parliament
adopted a proposed Regulation
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546 Deaths from air pollution may rise as climate
changes Changes in air pollution over the next
half century could cause hundreds of extra deaths and hospital admissions each
year, the Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency have warned
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