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203 Pharmacists to
be core members of Welsh chronic conditions teams Community
pharmacists will form part of the core management team responsible for
providing co-ordinated care for chronic conditions in Wales, the Welsh
Assembly Government has revealed
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203 Yellow card campaign forms part
of Scottish contract Pharmacists in Scotland
are being told this week that they must participate in the latest yellow
card campaign. This is different from the situation in England and Wales,
where involvement is voluntary unless a local agreement is in place
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203 Additional funding pledged for pharmacy
weight management scheme Pharmacy weight management
services in Coventry are to receive further funding from the Department of Health,
participants heard at an All-Party Pharmacy Group meeting held in Westminster
this week
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204 Hospital discharge notes
lacking Documentation sent to GPs when patients
are discharged from hospital is often poor and this may lead to medication-related
readmissions, a recent study suggests
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204 AZ rebates amended with Drug Tariff change Certain AstraZeneca products that pharmacists no longer receive discount for under its direct-to-pharmacy scheme are to be added to the Drug Tariff’s “list of drugs for which discount is not deducted” from 1 March 2008
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204 Society postpones emeritus membership Introduction
of a new membership category for retired members of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society has been postponed, the Society announced this week
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204 Think about NHS pensions NHS
staff thinking of retiring in the near future and those who are not married should
consider the impact of new NHS pension arrangements on their personal circumstances,
NHS Pensions, the body responsible for negotiating the new pensions deal, said
this week
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204 10pc eAMS-ready in Scotland About
10 per cent of community pharmacies in Scotland are now able to process prescriptions
electronically
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204 Pharmacy allergy screening Pharmacists
with an interest in allergy screening are being invited by the National Pharmacy
Association to sign up for training
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204 Health and Social Care Bill The
Health and Social Care Bill, which will bring the planned General Pharmaceutical
Council into being, completed its passage through the House of Commons on 18
February 2008
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205 Pharmacy schools will
need to increase PhD places Schools of pharmacy will need to train an additional 333 PhD students by 2015 to produce the number of academic pharmacists that will be required to meet the needs of pharmacists’ expanding roles as well as increasing undergraduate numbers, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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205 EC advises on ethical considerations of
paediatric trials Final guidance on carrying out
clinical trials involving children has been published by the European Commission
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205 Research trust seeks partnerships with social
sciences Academic partnerships to explore pharmacy
practice in the wider context of law and ethics, social science, health economics,
epidemiology and psychology are being sought by the Pharmacy Practice Research
Trust
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205 Single application process Applications
to conduct UK health research can now be made using a single online system
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205 Sebivo neuropathy warning New warnings about the risk of peripheral neuropathy in patients with chronic hepatitis B who are being treated with Sebivo (telbivudine) are to be included in Sebivo’s product information following a recommendation from the European Medicines Agency
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206 Criminal charges reconsidered
after epidural error Criminal charges are to be reconsidered by the Crown Prosecution Service following an inquest jury’s verdict that a woman who died at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital in 2004 was unlawfully killed after a midwife mistakenly gave her an intravenous infusion of bupivacaine, intended for epidural injection, instead of saline
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206 Depressed doctors make more drug errors Depression
among paediatricians is associated with a six-fold increase in medication errors,
a US study suggests
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206 Inaccurate weighing scales could be risking
lives Inaccurate weighing scales in hospitals could be putting patients’ lives at risk, according to trading standards officers, after a series of pilot studies found that hospital staff were using results from inaccurate and unsuitable scales to calculate doses for medicines
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206 Heparin adverse events in US Serious
adverse reactions experienced by patients using a Baxter Healthcare heparin product
in the US have resulted in the company temporarily halting the manufacture of
its multiple-dose vials of heparin sodium
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206 WHO seeks views on safety Views
on the implementation of patient safety solutions are being sought by the World
Health Organization, in a consultation that closes on 29 February 2008
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207 Glucosamine not effective
for hip osteoarthritis but use still debated Glucosamine
sulphate does not have clinically important effects on pain, function and stiffness
when used by patients with hip osteoarthritis, a new study suggests
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207 Oxcarbazepine ineffective as prophylaxis
for migraine Oxcarbazepine is not an effective
prophylactic treatment for migraine headache, a study reveals
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207 Enteral probiotics should not be considered
harmless Probiotics can no longer be considered
to be harmless adjuncts to enteral nutrition, according to the authors of a study
published online
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207 Transdermal delivery by microneedle Microneedle
arrays allow transdermal delivery of hydrophilic drug molecules to humans, a
proof of concept study published
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207 Stress response alcoholism treatment Mediating
stress responses shows promise as a treatment for alcoholism, according to a
study published online
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207 Resin salve treats ulcers effectively Treatment
of pressure ulcers with a traditional Finnish resin-based salve is more effective
than standard therapy, according to research published online
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207 Fatigue from “leaky” calcium
channels Restoring “leaky” calcium channels in muscle tissue reduces exercise-induced fatigue say researchers
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208 Benefit of intensive diabetes
therapy still unclear Contrasting reports on whether
intensive lowering of blood glucose increases deaths in patients with type 2
diabetes and high cardiovascular risk have emerged this month
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208 Target for reduced cardiovascular deaths
reached five years early Doubling the number of prescriptions written for statins over the past three years has contributed to the Department of Health’s target of reducing deaths from cardiovascular disease for people under 75 years by 40 per cent being reached five years early
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