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3 Call to improve monitoring
of CD requisition forms Both the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society and the National Pharmacy Association have called
on the Home Office to introduce standardised serial numbered requisition
forms for Controlled Drugs to improve monitoring of the circulation of
CDs
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3 Nearly all change at the Health Department Prime
Minister Gordon Brown has replaced all but one of the ministerial team
at the Department of Health
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3 AstraZeneca delays direct-to-pharmacy distribution AstraZeneca
has delayed the introduction of its direct-to-pharmacy distribution model until
the new year. The company's plans, involving AAH Pharmaceuticals and UniChem,
were expected to come into place late in the summer
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3 Dissatisfaction with Pfizer More
than five out of six pharmacy contractors who responded to a Pharmaceutical Services
Negotiating Committee online survey believe that changes to the delivery of Pfizer
medicines have adversely affected their ability to provide a service to patients
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4 Winners of Ask About Medicines
Awards announced NHS Direct, Great Ormond Street
Hospital, the Terrence Higgins Trust and the Parkinson's Disease Society are
among this year's winners of the Ask About Medicines Awards for Excellence
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4 Wales tests electronic prescription barcodes Two-dimensional
barcodes are being tested in Wales for their suitability for use in the electronic
transmission of prescriptions (ETP) project
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4 Call for oseltamivir to be made available
over the counter Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is wasted
by being restricted to supply on prescription, a retired Australian virologist
has said
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4 New NPA board members Five
new members have been elected to the National Pharmacy Association's management
board following by-elections
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4 PSNC advises on FoI disclosures Pharmacies
in England and Wales have been reminded by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee that they can be required to release information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000
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4 Consent for care record A
traffic light model of consent is to be adopted for the electronic summary care
record
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5 Paliperidone added to antipsychotic
drugs arsenal Paliperidone, a new atypical antipsychotic
medicine, has been launched this week by Janssen-Cilag
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5 DTB attacks NICE position on blindness drugs The
draft recommendation to restrict treatment for macular degeneration to the better
seeing eye, made by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence,
has been questioned in this month's Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
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5 Lactobacillus drinks could prevent C difficilediarrhoea Probiotic
drinks containing lactobacilli can help to prevent diarrhoea associated with
Clostridium difficile infection or antibiotics, a recent study suggests
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5 SSRIs associated with increased risk of bone
loss in older people, find researchers Further
evidence to suggest an increased risk of bone loss in older men and women taking
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is presented in two studies published
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6 Payment by results could hamper
best practice Payment by results (PBR), the system
by which hospital care is paid for in England, is influencing the way in which
hospitals treat patients, according to speakers at a Pharmaceutical Marketing
Society meeting held in London last week
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6 CPS unveils new logo Community
Pharmacy Scotland, formerly the Scottish Pharmaceutical General Council, has
unveiled its new logo
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6 Scottish Government wants flexible access
in primary care Primary care service providers
in Scotland will have to adopt a more flexible approach, if the new Government's
policy intentions are implemented
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6 Trainee funding for Scotland How
future preregistration placements will be funded in Scotland was set out this
week in an NHS circular
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6 MAS registrations may lapse following updated
directions Registrations for the minor ailment
service (MAS) in Scotland will start to lapse from 1 July 2007 for patients who
have not used the service for 12 months
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6 Chloramphenicol ointment makes the POM-to-P
switch Chloramphenicol eye ointment 1 per cent
can now be sold over the counter to people with conjunctivitis, following last
week's approval of the POM-to-P switch by the Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency
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7 A third of patient safety
incidents reported within primary care take place in community pharmacies More
than a third of incidents in primary care reported to the National Reporting
and Learning System took place in community pharmacies, the Patient Safety Observatory
of the National Patient Safety Agency states in its fourth report, published
last week
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7 Pharmacist loses appeal against CD conviction Pharmacist
Gary Fisher has lost an appeal against his conviction in March 2006 for conspiracy
to supply cocaine
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7 New MHRA strategy to address counterfeits Patient
safety is the top priority of an investigation into the distribution of counterfeit
Casodex, Zyprexa and Plavix, the then health minister Caroline Flint told MPs
last month
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7 Which? calls for more limits on medicines
marketing Which?, formerly the Consumers Association,
has called for new limits over the promotion of medicines by pharmaceutical companies
and more sources of independent information on drugs
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