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425 Prescribing
practice predisposed patients Antibiotic prescribing practices at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS
Trust unnecessarily predisposed vulnerable patients to developing Clostridium
difficile infection, a Healthcare Commission investigation has concluded
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425 Pharmacists can play a role in helping
defuse the obesity time-bomb Allowing pharmacists an increased role in prescribing anti-obesity medicines
over the counter would help address the huge public health problem of
obesity, argued Nick Finer, an honorary consultant in medicine at Addenbrooke’s
Hospital, Cambridge
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426 Routine inspection of
no value, say pharmacy bodies Routine visits to
pharmacy premises by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
inspectors are no longer of value and should be discontinued
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426 Phoenix makes offer to take over Nucare Phoenix
Medical Supplies Ltd has announced its intention to take over Nucare
Plc with the agreement of Nucare’s directors
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426 PCTs and practice-based commissioners “not
up to the job” Failures in local
commissioning are frustrating pharmacy, Steve Williams, chairman of the Association
of Independent Multiple Pharmacies, warned
at the association’s annual dinner last week
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426 Access to emergency care summaries on cards
for pharmacists in Scotland Community pharmacists
in Scotland could gain direct access to patient emergency care summaries when
the scheme is next extended
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427 Respond swiftly to phase
2 of Lord Darzi’s review Pharmacists are
urged to respond to the second phase of Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS
in England
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427 CPS manifesto calls for pharmacist access
to electronic records Community Pharmacy Scotland
is lobbying politicians with the aim of obtaining
access for community pharmacists to electronic patient records
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427 Agree on future role before funding decisions AAH
Pharmaceuticals has told the Department of Health that it should determine the
future role of community pharmacy before deciding how
to fund it
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427 Scotland’s acute medication service
delayed Implementation of the acute medication
service (AMS) in Scotland has been delayed because the introduction of the electronic
systems that will support the service is taking longer than expected
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428 NPA speaks out over category
M If the Government wants a competitive medicines
market that keeps down the costs of health care then the system that governs
fair return must
be reliable and predictable
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428 Talks continue over excessive purchase profits Negotiations
are ongoing in Scotland over how an excessive amount of retained purchase profit
should be recovered from community pharmacies
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428 The PHARMAs — pharmacists honoured
at inaugural awards ceremony in Birmingham Pharmacists
from all areas of the profession were among the winners of the inaugural Pharmacy
Awards
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428 National Pharmacy Association intends to
sharpen its focus The National Pharmacy Association
is to sharpen its focus on the needs of its members
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428 Public health agenda not a fad, says Society
President Pharmacists need to accept clinical and
public health pharmacy as serious Government priorities and not short-term fads
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429 BOPA to establish a faculty
of oncology pharmacy Preliminary steps have been
taken by the British Oncology Pharmacy Association to set up a faculty of oncology
pharmacy with the College of Pharmacy
Practice
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429 BAPW plans to expand set of member bodies Plans
to expand membership of the British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers
to include other representative bodies are under discussion
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429 Pharmacists must have the courage to make
clinical decisions If pharmacists are to market
themselves as the health professionals on the high street they need the courage
to make clinical decisions
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429 Independent prescribing by pharmacists may
start in Scotland in November Independent prescribing
by pharmacists in Scotland is expected to be permitted at the end of November
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430 Statins provide lasting
protection against MI Statins appear to provide
protection against heart attacks for many years after patients stop taking them
PJ 2007;279:430
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430 Boots launches health advice website A
new health advice website has been launched by Boots in partnership with the
BMJ Group
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430 Review suggests measures to halt spread
of infections Spread of epidemic respiratory viruses
might be prevented by taking precautions over hygiene around younger children
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430 GP sexual health service poor Provision
of sexual health services in general practice is erratic, unco-ordinated and
poorly planned
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430 Record BP over 24 hours Ambulatory
blood pressure should be recorded over 24 hours in order to predict fatal and
non-fatal cardiovascular events
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430 Flu vaccination effective Vaccination
of elderly persons over 10 influenza seasons is associated with a 27 per cent
reduction in hospital admissions for pneumonia
or
influenza and a 48 per cent decrease in the risk of death from any
cause
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431 Discount shops defy MHRA
over paracetamol sales Sales of multiple packs
of analgesics are still taking place despite pressure from the Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
to try to persuade retailers to restrict sales to no more than two packs
at a time
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431 Prescription charge rules alter for TB therapy
in England and Scotland Changes to the Regulations
that govern NHS prescription charges in England and Scotland have altered the
way tuberculosis treatment is paid for
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R&D news
432 Mixed results for factor
X inhibitor as VTE treatment Idraparinux - a long-acting
inhibitor of activated factor X - has been tested in venous thromboembolism with
mixed results
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432 First malaria vaccine set to be licensed The
world’s first partially effective malaria vaccine is expected to be licensed
around 2012
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432 Stem cell research A
multidisciplinary centre for research into stem cell technologies was opened
last month
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432 Vildagliptin improves glycaemic control
in type 2 diabetes Twice as many patients taking
vildagliptin, a selective dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, as those taking placebo
achieve HbA1c levels below
7 per cent
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432 Oestrogen receptor modulator reduces vertebral
fractures Bazedoxifene, a selective oestrogen receptor
modulator, reduces occurrence of new vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women
at high risk of fractures
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433 Pain relieved without
numbness A way of delivering local anaesthetic
so that it blocks pain but does not cause numbness or interfere with motor function
has been developed
by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical
School, Boston
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433 Oral anticoagulant as effective as enoxaparin Dabigatran
etexilate, an oral anticoagulant, is as effective as enoxaparin in reducing the
risk of venous thromboembolism after total hip replacement
surgery
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433 Multiple sclerosis vaccine appears well
tolerated Treatment
of multiple sclerosis with a DNA vaccine is safe and well tolerated
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433 Pharmacological cousin of amiodarone is
effective without toxic side effects Dronedarone,
a drug related to amiodarone, could provide an effective new treatment for arrhythmia,
without amiodarone’s thyroid and pulmonary side effects
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