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325 Primarolo wants
pharmacy to take new direction Preventing disease and tackling health inequalities are high priorities for the future, and the forthcoming White Paper will explore how pharmacy’s role and contribution in these areas can be expanded, according to health minister Dawn Primarolo, who was speaking at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee annual dinner held in London last week
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325 NPA appoints chief John
Turk has been appointed chief executive of the National Pharmacy Association
and will join the organisation on 7 April 2008
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325 LPS throws a lifeline for low dispensing-volume
pharmacies New guidance on local pharmaceutical
services (LPS) contracts sets out a lifeline for those pharmacies in England
that will lose the protected professional allowance on 1 April 2008. It contains
a section on using LPS contracts to guarantee adequate pharmaceutical services
in areas served by low-volume pharmacies
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325 Pharmacists not prepared for flu pandemic Less
than half of community pharmacists (44 per cent) in the UK are confident about
their ability to respond to an influenza pandemic, according to a survey commissioned
by Roche Products, manufacturer of Tamiflu (oseltamivir)
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325 Extra £2.9m secured for transition
to GPhC Extra resources of £2.9m have been secured by the Department of Health for development of the General Pharmaceutical Council, members of the Pharmacy Regulation and Leadership Oversight Group were told at a meeting earlier this month
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326 Nucare members asked to
join Numark from October Plans to integrate Numark
and Nucare services under the Numark name were revealed at a press briefing in
London last week. Members of Nucare will be asked to sign up to Numark from 1
October 2008
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326 Use of the EPS by community pharmacies is
consistent and growing The number of prescriptions
being dispensed via release 1 of the electronic prescription service is consistent
and growing ahead of release 2 of the service going live at early implementer
sites this spring or summer, according to NHS Connecting for Health
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326 Toolkit encouraging joint working between
industry and the NHS published by DoH and ABPI Joint
working between NHS organisations and the pharmaceutical industry has been made
easier through the development of a toolkit that aims to provide practical information
and strategies to help the two parties work together to benefit patients
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327 New AstraZeneca scheme
will pay pharmacists to help patients take their medicines as prescribed Pharmacists
are to be paid by AstraZeneca to talk to patients about taking its medicines
as prescribed, the manufacturer told The Journal this week
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327 Released prisoners exempt from charges In
the first phase of a national roll-out, all FP10 and FP10MDA prescriptions issued
byselected prisons from 1 April 2008 will be exempt from prescription charges
in
England,
providing certain conditions are met
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327 Consider adjusting opening hours now that
GPs open longer Pharmacy contractors should establish whether local surgeries are intending to amend their opening hours and consider whether their own hours need to be adjusted after doctors accepted the Government’s proposal to open an extra 30 minutes for every 1,000 registered patients
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327 No more antivirals for influenza Use
of antiviral drugs for the prevention or treatment of influenza in England is
no longer indicated for this flu season, the Department of Health has advised
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327 Clinical guidelines now available Clinical
guidelines published on the eGuidelines website are being made available free
of charge to all community pharmacists after negotiations between MGP, the provider
of eGuidelines, and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the
National Pharmacy Association
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327 Pension help for volunteers Public
servants who work as volunteers in poor countries through certain UK-based agencies
are to have their pension contributions met while they are abroad
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328 Public not aware of medicines
safety, says GHP Most members of the public are
unaware of the safety issues that surround medicines, even though medication
errors are reported to be responsible for 10 to 20 per cent of all NHS adverse
events
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328 Vildagliptin launched by Novartis for dual
therapy in type 2 diabetes Patients with type 2
diabetes could be suitable for treatment with a new medicine, vildagliptin, available
in the UK this week. Novartis has launched the drug both as a single ingredient
tablet (Galvus) and as a combination product with metformin (Eucreas)
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328 Lancet study suggests antibiotics not justified
for sinusitis even if symptoms exceed a week Antibiotics
offer little benefit for patients with sinusitis, according to a study, even
those with symptoms lasting more than a week
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329 Raise awareness of tuberculosis Raising awareness of tuberculosis and referring symptomatic patients to TB services should be part of every community pharmacist’s work in high burden countries, according to Ivan Kotzé, president of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
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329 Scottish prescribing group to tackle antimicrobial
resistance Improving the prescribing of antimicrobials
is a key aim of a new action plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance, published
this week by the Scottish Government
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329 Infective endocarditis advice Best
evidence suggests that prophylactic antibiotics should not be given to anyone
with structural cardiac defects at risk of infective endocarditis who is undergoing
interventional procedures (including dental procedures), the National Institute
for Health and Clinical Excellence says in guidance issued this week to the NHS
in England and Wales
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329 WHO annual TB report Private
healthcare providers must work in partnership with public programmes to ensure
that new tuberculosis cases do not escape detection, the World Health Organization
suggests in its 12th annual report on TB control
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329 Clues to TB drug resistance UK
scientists have shown how isoniazid binds to activating enzymes within Mycobacterium
tuberculosis
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329 Inhaled TB vaccine shows promise A
dry powder form of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine that
can be delivered via an inhaler was as effective as the injectable vaccine when
tested in guinea pigs
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329 Test speeds up TB diagnosis A
new T-cell-based interferon-g release assay can rule out tuberculosis infection
within days rather than weeks and has 99 per cent sensitivity when used in combination
with tuberculin skin testing
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330 Cut in script charges
linked with reduced OTC sales The phased reduction of prescription charges in Wales coincided with an increase in the number of non-sedating antihistamines — products available over the counter — dispensed in Wales, a study recently released shows
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330 Under a fifth of pharmacy staff members
in Wales can speak Welsh Whether community pharmacies
in Wales provide the option for customers to communicate in Welsh with pharmacy
staff varies greatly by location, a Pharmacy Practice Research Trust report reveals
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330 Low-dose aspirin reduces risk of adults
developing asthma A 100mg dose of aspirin every
other day reduces the relative risk of women developing adult-onset asthma, researchers
reveal
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330 Celesio profits rise European pharmacy and wholesaling giant Celesio, parent company of AAH Pharmaceuticals, has achieved a 3.6 per cent increase in revenue — from €21.6bn in 2006 to €22.3bn in 2007 — despite difficult competitive conditions in the wholesale sector, it was announced this week
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330 Keep well scheme continues Scotland’s “Keep well” health check programme — which includes pharmacy in some sites — will continue
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