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573 Society given
one year to win pharmacists over The future of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society remains uncertain following the publication of the report from the working party led by Lord Carter of Coles this week, although it suggests the Society has a year to determine what will happen to it. The working party was commissioned by the Department of Health to look into professional regulation and leadership in pharmacy following publication of the White Paper “Trust Assurance and Safety”
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573 Royal college will destroy pharmacy
infrastructure, says IPMI Establishing
a new royal college structure in pharmacy will take many years and will
destroy much of pharmacy's infrastructure, the Institute of Pharmacy
Management International has said. It has also warned that consultations
on professional regulation have gone beyond their remit and breached
Cabinet Office guidelines
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574 UK lags behind in uptake
of new cancer drugs Uptake of new drugs for cancer
in the UK is behind that of many countries, according to a Swedish report sponsored
by Roche Pharmaceuticals and published last week
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574 Cancer care closer to home highlighted in
DoH report Some diagnostic tests and treatment
services for people with cancer can be provided closer to where patients live,
according to Mike Richards, national cancer director
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574 NICE chairman calls on patient groups to
challenge the cost of medicines Patient groups
need to be wary about donations from pharmaceutical companies and should question
the cost of their products, according to the chairman of the National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence
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574 New pharmacy awards scheme launched Pharmacists
and other pharmacy staff are being invited to apply, and to nominate others,
for a new set of pharmacy awards
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575 Pilot project will result
in guidance on medicines reconciliation Guidance
on a standard approach to medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital in
order to address patient safety problems is to be produced by the National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence, in collaboration with the National Patient
Safety Agency
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575 Bowel cancer awareness campaign kicks off From
this week, a bowel cancer awareness campaign is being piloted in 975 community
pharmacies within 11 primary care trusts in England
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575 Daily aspirin can prevent colorectal cancer
but risks too high for general use Taking 300mg
or more of aspirin a day for five years can prevent colorectal cancer, according
to research published
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575 NPA by-election By-elections
are to be held to fill vacancies for representatives from Yorkshire, the East
Midlands, the West Midlands, Wales and Scotland on the National Pharmacy Association
management board
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575 Safety concern with IT delays Senior
NHS staff have concerns about a growing risk to patient safety with delays to
the NHS IT programme, a study published online this week shows
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576 PSNC presses for more
nationally agreed services Work is continuing at
the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee to try to make the Department
of Health agree to three more advanced pharmacy services that all accredited
community pharmacists can provide if they wish
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576 Patients are not given enough information
about the purpose of their medicines Fewer hospital
patients than a year ago are being given full information about the purpose of
their medicines and possible side effects, according to the latest patient survey
from the Healthcare Commission
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576 Better prescribing would save £300m a year, NAO says Potential savings of over £300m a year on the primary care prescribing bill that would not adversely affect patient care have been identified by the National Audit Office
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576 ABPI defends direct-to-pharmacy protagonists Drug
manufacturers' right to change their distribution arrangements has been defended
by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry at a media briefing
this week
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576 Self-diagnosis will be the market of the
future Self-diagnostics will be the growth area
in over-the-counter health for the next five years, according to the Mintel market
research organisation
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577 Prospect of pharmacy access
to care records raised The Government has indicated
again that it plans to authorise pharmacists to have access to patients' electronic
care records. However, it qualifies its support by saying that access must be
appropriate and that certain mechanisms need to be in place before permission
can be granted
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577 New details of Alliance Boots private equity
scheme revealed to shareholders Further details
of the planned scheme to take Alliance Boots into private ownership were laid
out in a circular last week
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577 Formulary management system wins award An
intranet-hosted formulary management system has won this year's First DataBank
Europe Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists Information Technology Award
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577 Brown favours pharmacy involvement in future
services Future services to be offered from community
pharmacies have featured more than once in speeches by Gordon Brown as he campaigns
for the leadership of the Labour Party and the post of prime minister that goes
with it
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578 Mental health pharmacy
workforce needs boosting Too few pharmacists are working in mental health trusts to provide effective medicines-related services, a progress report on the “New ways of working in mental health” (NWW) programme stresses. NWW began in 2003 as part of the National Institute for Mental Health in England national workforce programme to ensure that new practices were introduced for the benefit of service users, carers and the mental health workforce
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578 Aspirin use does not slow cognitive decline Long-term
aspirin use does not slow cognitive decline in women aged 65 years and over,
a study published suggests
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578 Treatment strategies for people with mild
asthma examined Strategies to treat mild asthma
are the subject of two studies published
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578 Preventing ulcer bleeding Patients
at high risk of ulcer bleeding and who need anti-inflammatory analgesics should
receive a proton pump inhibitor and a cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitor, say researchers
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578 Heart failure interventions Evidence
supporting pharmacists' role in heart failure is published
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578 Vitamins and prostate cancer There
is an increased risk of advanced and fatal prostate cancers among men reporting
excessive use of multivitamins compared with men who have never used multivitamins,
according to a review
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578 Antiplatelets for pre-eclampsia Use
of antiplatelet agents, such as aspirin, during pregnancy is associated with
moderate reductions in the relative risk of pre-eclampsia, of birth before 34
weeks' gestation and of having a pregnancy with a serious adverse outcome, according
to a review published online
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R&D news
579 Micafungin is better tolerated than amphotericin
B Micafungin is as effective as liposomal amphotericin
B at treating Candida spp infection, and causes fewer side effects, a phase III
study has shown
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579 Levosimendan may not cut mortality in heart
failure Levosimendan, a potential acute heart failure
treatment, does not reduce mortality compared with dobutamine, the results of
a trial in 1,327 patients suggest
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579 Compound allows cells to bypass gene defects Forcing
ribosomes to ignore inappropriate signals could lead to new treatments for inherited
diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, a new study
suggests
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579 Cell culture vaccine hope Novartis's
Optaflu, an influenza vaccine made in cell culture, rather than in hens' eggs,
has been recommended for approval by the EU
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579 Itraconazole shows potential as new cancer
treatment Itraconazole may have a role in the treatment
of cancer, diabetic retinopathy and rheumatoid arthritis
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579 “Minicells” could deliver drugs direct to tumours A technique involving the delivery of chemotherapy to specific cancer cells using bacteria-derived “minicells” is described in a study published last week
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