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61 Regulatory change
team revealed Membership of the oversight
group that will work with health ministers to establish the General Pharmaceutical
Council and to advise on the formation of a professional leadership body
was announced by the Department of Health last week. However, its composition
has been criticised by some pharmacy organisations
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61 Dawn Primarolo is named new minister
in charge of pharmacy Dawn Primarolo, Minister
of State for Public Health, is the new minister responsible for pharmacy
at the Department of Health
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61Regulation needs to be “reframed”, Keith Ridge tells the College of Pharmacy Practice Formation
of a General Pharmaceutical Council should allow for time for rethinking the
role of regulation, Keith Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, believes
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62 Push for ETP roll-out in
Scotland NHS boards in Scotland were told this
week to check up on local implementation of electronic transmission of prescriptions
(ETP), as part of a push by the Scottish Executive to keep the ePharmacy programme
on track
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62 NHS cancer planning system wins recognition A
web-based oncology services planning system, being rolled out across UK cancer
networks, has been selected by information technology magazine CIO as one of
the world's top 100 IT initiatives for 2007
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62 Aberdeen student invents handy dose reminder
alarm Patients could be given an egg-shaped device
to remind them when to take their medicines, if a prototype designed by a Robert
Gordon University student comes to fruition
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62 NPA issues EPS warning Pharmacists
who are not prepared for the electronic prescription service (EPS) are running
a significant business risk, the National Pharmacy Association has warned
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62 Mobiles aid Boots diagnoses People
are seeking advice from pharmacists about conditions they find embarrassing by
using photographs of the problem taken with a mobile telephone or digital camera,
according to Boots The Chemists
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63 Company chemists reject
emphasis in APPG report Pressure from the All-Party
Pharmacy Group for the community pharmacy sector to focus on health, rather than
retailing, has been rejected by the Company Chemists' Association
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63 Alcohol gel supplies for patients suggested Hospital
patients could be given personal supplies of alcohol-based hand cleanser to be
offered to health professionals before they treat them as a way of tackling hospital-acquired
infections
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63 Pharmacy control of pseudoephedrine sales
to be scrutinised The pharmacy profession will
be scrutinised over the next few months to see if it can control the inappropriate
use of pseudoephedrine purchased from its outlets, according to pharmacy organisations
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63 Revised code of ethics The
new Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, which comes into
effect on 1 August 2007, is distributed this week with The Journal
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63 MUR numbers rise The number of medicines use reviews undertaken by pharmacists in England has risen from fewer than 147,000 in 2005–06 to over 557,000 in 2006–07, figures released last week by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee show
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63 NHS trust announces job cuts Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust has announced that the equivalent of 600 full-time posts — a third of its workforce — are to be made redundant
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64 Greater emphasis on off-label
prescribing needed Greater emphasis on dealing
with off-label prescribing is needed in pharmacy undergraduate and postgraduate
education, say the authors of a study published
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64 Selenium supplements linked with diabetes Taking
selenium supplements may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according
to research published online
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64 Doses of vitamin C do not protect against
common cold Prophylatic use of vitamin C does not
offer protection against the common cold in the general population but can reduce
the duration of illness, a review suggests
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64 UEA awards honorary degree to Sandy Florence
as students graduate from first new pharmacy school for 30 years The
first undergraduate cohort from the University of East Anglia's school of pharmacy
received their degrees at a ceremony last week. They are the first to graduate
from a new school of pharmacy for over 30 years
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64 Bath celebrates its centenary More
than 700 former students, members of staff and other guests took part in celebrations
to mark 100 years of pharmacy research and education in Bath earlier this month
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65 Reprimands for three companies Bayer,
GlaxoSmithKline and Roche are to be publicly reprimanded in advertisements that
will be taken out by the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority
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65 EU and US to widen co-operation Regulatory
co-operation between the EU and the US is to be expanded to include confidential
exchanges of information on paediatric medicines and orphan drugs
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65 EU introduces fines for licensing breaches Pharmaceutical
companies can now be fined up to 5 per cent of their EU turnover if they break
the centralised European medicines licensing rules
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66 SMC accepts four new medicines Rotigotine
transdermal patches have been accepted for use by the NHS in Scotland following
a resubmission by their manufacturer to the Scottish Medicines Consortium. The
product is to be used as monotherapy to treat the signs and symptoms of early
stage Parkinson's disease
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66 Healthcare Commission report reveals diabetes
service gaps Less than a sixth of primary care trusts in England received an overall score of “good” or “excellent” in the Healthcare Commission’s report on diabetes services, published this week
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66 Saline nasal spray can relieve rhinosinusitis
symptoms Spraying saline into the nostrils can
relieve the symptoms associated with chronic rhinosinusitis but is not as effective
as an intranasal steroid, a review of eight randomised trials has concluded
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66 Paracetamol for ankle pain Paracetamol
is as effective as naproxen in relieving ankle-sprain discomfort in children,
say researchers, who compared the two drugs in 77 children, aged eight to 14
years
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66 Anticoagulants and antiplatelets Adding
an oral anticoagulant to antiplatelet therapy does not reduce the likelihood
of patients with peripheral arterial disease experiencing a major cardiovascular
complication and increases the chance of a life-threatening bleed occurring,
data from a study published
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R&D news
67 New rheumatoid arthritis treatments show
promise Two investigational drugs for rheumatoid arthritis — tocilizumab and certolizumab pegol — have shown promise in Phase III studies, data from which were presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, held last month in Barcelona
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67 New oral anticoagulants offer benefits for
orthopaedic surgery patients, say researchers Two
new oral anticoagulants offer improvements in terms of ease of administration
for patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery and one my reduce the risk of venous
thromboembolism, the results of Phase III trials suggest
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67 Encouraging results for new NNRTI in resistant
HIV patients Use of the non-nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) etravirine, for treatment-experienced patients
with NNRTI resistance, achieves better virological suppression than placebo,
according to the results of two trials published
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67 Data suggest effective new drug for Crohn's
disease Certolizumab pegol is an effective treatment
for adults with Crohn's disease, two new studies indicate
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