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279 Government to provide £3m for establishing GPhC Funding of £3m is to be provided by the Government to support the establishment of the General Pharmaceutical Council, Ben Bradshaw, Minister of State for Health Services, revealed at the British Pharmaceutical Conference
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279 Further details of independent
inquiry into professional body outlined Details
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's independent inquiry into the options
for a professional body for pharmacy were revealed during a discussion
at the BPC
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279 Legislation set to separate concepts of “responsible pharmacist” and “supervision” “Responsible pharmacist” (the concept that will encompass and modernise “personal control”) is to be separated from the concept of “supervision” in legislative changes due to take effect within the next six months. This was announced at the BPC by Jeannette Howe, head of pharmacy at the Department of Health
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280 Evaluation of community
pharmacy contract shows some progress but still room for improvement Substantial
changes have occurred since the introduction of the community pharmacy contract
in England and Wales, with community pharmacists providing more services across
the three tiers in the contract, data released at the British Pharmaceutical
Conference reveal
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280 MHRA announces new strategy to raise
awareness of yellow cards Reporting of
adverse drugs effects by health care professionals and patients is to
be strengthened by a new strategy from the Medicines and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency
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281 Statin switch
debate reopened after new study data Changing
patients from atorvastatin to simvastatin raises the risk of death or
major cardiovascular event by a third according to a Pfizer study presented
at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Vienna last week
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281 Contraceptives do not raise overall
cancer risk Taking the oral contraceptive
pill is not associated with an overall increased risk of cancer and may
even produce a net public health gain, according to a study published
this week. However, the researchers identified an increased risk for
women who took oral contraceptives for more than eight years
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281 Free contraceptives Katya (ethinylestradiol 30µg/gestodene 75µg) tablets and Sunya (ethinylestradiol 20µg/gestodene 75µg) tablets have been added to the list of contraceptive drugs to be dispensed free of charge in the September 2007 issue of the Drug Tariff
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281 CD prescriptions in Wales Pharmacy
contractors in Wales have been brought in line with those in Scotland and England
by a decision of the Welsh Assembly Government that they should send original
private prescription forms for Controlled Drugs to their NHS pricing office from
1 September 2007
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282 Scottish Executive funds
pharmacy methadone study Pharmacists in Scotland are to take part in a new research project to help improve outcomes for methadone patients. The study has attracted £184,000 of funding from the Scottish Executive over two years
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282 Scottish Medicines Consortium announces
latest medicines approved for use in Scotland Natalizumab
(Tysabri) is now approved for restricted use in NHS Scotland following a resubmission
to the Scottish Medicines Consortium
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282 Wales accepts two HIV drugs Darunavir
(Prezista) and tipranavir (Aptivus) have been accepted for use by the NHS in
Wales, following ministerial approval of the recommendations made by the All-Wales
Medicines Strategy Group at its August 2007 meeting
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282 Scottish prescriber numbers A
total of 575 pharmacists, mostly in community, have completed or are undergoing
supplementary prescribing training in Scotland, said Frank Owens, vice-chairman
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Scottish Pharmacy Board, at last week's
UniChem convention in Barbados
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283 NICE Alzheimer’s
advice amended The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has this week reissued its guidance on Alzheimer’s disease drugs, following the High Court’s ruling that NICE’s November 2006 guidance discriminated against those who cannot communicate in English or have learning disabilities
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283 BNF 54 up to date on patient safety issues The
latest edition of the British National Formulary contains new information on
areas as diverse as the fire risk associated with paraffin-based emollients and
which patients are most likely to suffer psychiatric reactions with systemic
corticosteroids
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283 Nelarabine launched for T-cell leukaemia
and lymphoma Patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia and T-cell acute lymphoblastic lymphoma who have not responded to or
have relapsed following two chemotherapy regimens can now be treated with nelarabine,
available this week from GlaxoSmithKline
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283 New treatment available for children with
growth failure Mecasermin (Increlex) — a human insulin-like growth factor produced by recombinant DNA technology — has been launched this week by Ipsen. The subcutaneous injection is indicated for long-term treatment of growth failure in children and adolescents with severe primary insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) deficiency
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283 DTB questions routine self-monitoring of
blood glucose Routine self-monitoring of blood
glucose by people with type 2 diabetes who have reasonable glycaemic control
offers little advantage and may increase the likelihood of hypoglycaemia, according
to the latest issue of the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
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284 CCA steps in on retention
fee increase proposals Opposition to proposed increases
in Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership fees for pharmacists (50 per cent)
and premises registration and retention fees (6 per cent and 56 per cent, respectively)
has been voiced by the Company Chemists' Association
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284 Heart attacks fall after Scottish smoking
ban Hospital admissions after heart attacks have
fallen by 17 per cent following Scotland's ban on smoking in public places, according
to research released this week
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284 Pharmacogenetics professor Pharmacogenetics
has been boosted by the award of a five-year contract to the University of Liverpool
to host an NHS chair in the subject. The first NHS professor of pharmacogenetics
will be clinical pharmacologist Munir Pirmohamed
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284 NI pharmacists want to stay separate from
Great Britain More than half of the pharmacists
registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland and who expressed
a view want to keep pharmacy regulation and representation separate from plans
for new bodies in Great Britain
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284 New proposals on remuneration for stoma
supplies Consultation has started on revised proposals
on how community pharmacies and appliance contractors in England should be paid
for dispensing stoma and incontinence supplies and providing related services
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285 UK catches up on health
spending but outcomes lag Increased NHS spending
since 2002 means that the UK has caught up with the EU average for spending on
health, but lack of productivity and unhealthy lifestyles mean that clinical
outcomes are not catching up
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285 Exercise reveals that pandemic influenza
advice needs clarification Advice to the public
about using antiviral drugs and face-masks in any influenza pandemic and potential
problems associated with stockpiling drugs need to be made more clear, according
to a Government report
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285 European governments agree on minimum standards
for selling medicines by mail order Mail order
selling of medicines via the internet should be restricted to community pharmacies
that are open to the public, the Council of Europe has decided. It believes that
this will facilitate patient counselling
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285 Asda pharmacy goes online Asda
has teamed up with Pharmacy2U to become the first supermarket to offer pharmacy
products online
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285 NPSA focuses on dispensing Safe dispensing will be the focus of two new “Design for patient safety” publications from the National Patient Safety Agency
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