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693 Economic analysis
suggests Society should evolve Economic analysis shows that the preferred option for modernising regulation and leadership in the pharmacy profession is to have “a royal college evolving from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and other expertise” when the General Pharmaceutical Council is set up
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693 Society sets timetable for consultation
with membership over future How the Royal Pharmaceutical Society plans to engage with its members over the next six months about a future professional body has now been outlined
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694 Society rejects primary
care trust performers' lists Lists of pharmacists working for the NHS that would be kept by primary care trusts have been rejected by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and other pharmacy organisations
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694 Quality of supply could be assessed nationally Local
indicators of supplier performance could be brought together to provide information
on the reliability of suppliers across the UK
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694 Faulty hospital pregnancy test kits recalled
by Unipath Women who have recently had negative
pregnancy tests at hospitals and who remain worried that they might be pregnant
have been told to seek advice from community pharmacists, among others
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694 Viracept recalled after fears of genotoxic
contamination All Viracept (nelfinavir; Roche)
products are being recalled following concerns about contamination with a genotoxic
substance
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695 Independents believe Pfizer's
single wholesaler distribution model puts them at a disadvantage Some
two thirds of independent contractors surveyed by the Independent Pharmacy Federation
believe there has been deterioration in the service level received for Pfizer
products following the launch of Pfizer's direct-to-pharmacy (DTP) scheme on
5 March 2007
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695 Small manufacturers speak out over changes
to distribution Small manufacturers' ability to
compete following recent and proposed changes to the distribution of medicines
may be under threat, according to Keith Davies, UK logistics manager at ProStrakan,
speaking at the British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers' annual conference
in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, last week
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696 New Scottish Government
starts to outline policies Abolishing NHS prescription
charges is back on the agenda in Scotland, where the new Government has confirmed
its manifesto pledge to phase out charges. It will set out the detail of its
plans for the health service by the end of this year
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696 SMC accepts eight drugs for use in Scotland Ranibizumab
was approved for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration
in NHS Scotland this week
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696 Text can locate closest pharmacy selling
EHC Women seeking emergency hormonal contraception
can find out the location of their nearest pharmacy by text message by using
a new service from Schering Health Care
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696 Fifth type of animal medicine proposed to
fill gap in system Another category of veterinary
medicine has been proposed to fill a perceived gap in the current four-category
system
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697 Cardiovascular risks of
rosiglitazone still unclear Interim findings from
an ongoing study of the effects of rosiglitazone on risk of admission to hospital
or death from cardiovascular causes are inconclusive, according to research published
online
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697 Rise in prescribing of newer antiepileptics Prescribing
of newer antiepilepsy drugs for children has increased five-fold since 1993,
an analysis of the UK General Practice Research Database suggests. However, the
authors of the study say that the long-term safety of these drugs has yet to
be established
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697 Pharmacogenetic testing by pharmacists envisaged Pharmacists
should be able to deliver pharmacogenetic tests in the future, a scoping meeting
has included. The meeting in London last week was organised by the National Genetics
Education and Development Centre (NGEDC), in conjunction with the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society
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697 Drug pellet delivery system wins innovation
award A system which delivers solid drugs as pellets
fired through the skin won one of the Medical Futures Innovation Awards this
week
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698 Pharmacy overlooked in
commissioning proposals Both the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society and the Company Chemists' Association are calling for appropriate scrutiny
of commissioning in primary care to ensure that the process is transparent and
the services commissioned are the most suitable for patients
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698 No more NHS targets, says health minister There
are to be no more targets for the NHS, health minister Andy Burnham said last
week. In a speech to the Fabian Society, Mr Burnham said that the next decade
would see a decisive move away from national targets and performance management
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698 Flint launches Lloydspharmacy smoking cessation
campaign Health minister Caroline Flint launched
Lloydspharmacy's smoking cessation campaign in London last week ahead of the
smoking ban in England, which starts on 1 July 2007
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698 Surgical pre-admission clinic benefits from
pharmacist Using a pharmacist to conduct medication
histories in a surgical pre-admission clinic can reduce the number of medication
discrepancies on the postoperative prescription chart, a Canadian study shows
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698 Pharmacy takeover prompts competition concerns Lloydspharmacy will have to sell four pharmacies as a result of its planned acquisition of Independent Pharmacy Care Centres Plc — a 34-pharmacy company. If Lloydspharmacy fails to provide satisfactory undertakings to sell the pharmacies, then the Office of Fair Trading will refer the acquisition to the Competition Commission
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698 Advice issued on improving prescribing committees Guidance
for area prescribing and medicines management committees (APCs) in order to make
them more effective has been developed by the National Prescribing Centre
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R&D news
699 Eltrombopag priming maintains platelets
in hepatitis C Eltrombopag, a thrombopoietin receptor
agonist, raises platelet counts in hepatitis C patients before myelosuppressive
pegylated interferon alfa therapy, and enables adequate platelet counts to be
maintained during the first 12 weeks of antiviral treatment
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699 Temsirolimus improves survival in metastatic
renal cancer Temsirolimus — developed by Wyeth — improves the overall survival of patients with advanced renal cancer when compared with interferon alfa, a phase III study shows
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699 Study of isradipine in mice could lead to
future treatment for Parkinson’s disease Calcium
channel blockers may form the basis of future therapy that protects brain cells
from changes thought to lead to Parkinson's disease, research published online
this week indicates
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699 Research reveals common disease genes UK researchers from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium have used genome-wide association (GWA) — an evolving study technique — to identify genes involved in particular human diseases
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699 Antibody treatment for bird flu on horizon Human
monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with neutralising activity against H5N1 avian influenza
virus might provide future prevention or an adjunctive treatment against a human
outbreak, research published online suggests
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