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351 New code includes
pharmacy despite opposition Community pharmacies
in England have been made subject to a new code
of practice on the promotion of services funded by the NHS
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351 Hospital pharmacy in Bolton to get
access to electronic patient record Pharmacy
staff at the Royal Bolton Hospital will shortly have access to electronic
summary care records (SCR) for inpatients
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351 Consultation on regulation of health and
social care launched Views on which health and
adult social care services should require registration with the new Care Quality
Commission are being sought by the Department
of Health
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351 Ephedrine/pseudoephedrine restrictions start
1 April Restrictions on the sale of products that
contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine come into force on 1 April
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352 Independent safety review
lacking in paediatric trials Only 2 per cent of
paediatric clinical trials include independent safety monitoring, a seven-year
review suggests
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352 Velcade cardiopulmonary safety Bortezomib
(Velcade) should not be used to treat multiple myeloma patients with certain
severe pulmonary or heart problems, says the European
Medicines Agency
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352 Tysabri liver warnings Europe
wants stronger warnings to be included in the product information for natalizumab
(Tysabri)
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352 New perindopril tablets mean a change in
dosage for patients Patients taking perindopril
products Coversyl and Coversyl Plus will need to be switched to one of Servier
Laboratories’s new perindopril arginine presentations
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352 Conservatives uncover 130 per cent increase
in deaths due to medicines adverse effects Research
carried out for the Conservative Party has found that the number of deaths associated
with adverse drug reactions has risen by 130 per
cent over the past 10 years
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353 Scotland’s community
pharmacy representatives oppose plans to register and regulate technicians Community
Pharmacy Scotland, the body that negotiates on behalf of community pharmacy contractors
in Scotland, is opposing plans for the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society to take on the regulation and registration of pharmacy technicians
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353 Clearer evidence needed of OTC dose benefits Regulators
should insist on better evidence to support the use of over-the-counter doses
of medicines, a BMJ article argues
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353 Use paracetamol or ibuprofen to treat colds
in children Children suffering from a cold should
only be treated with paracetamol or ibuprofen to treat fever and with a cough
syrup if they have a cough,
according to new Government advice
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353 Pneumococcal vaccine supply Fees
and reimbursement prices for supplying pneumococcal vaccines on NHS stock orders
and prescriptions in Scotland are to remain the same
as last year
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353 Munro Pharmacy sold Munro
Group announced this month that it has sold its retail pharmacy division to Admenta
Holdings Ltd, the holding company of LloydsPharmacy
Limited
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353 Senecio ban formalised Sale,
supply or importation of unlicensed medicinal products for internal use which
contain Senecio species will be prohibited from 1 April when
the Medicines for Human Use (Prohibition) (Senecio and Miscellaneous
Amendments) Order 2008 comes into force
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354 Medicines funded through
risk-sharing must offer tangible value Costs
and benefits of medicines used within risk-sharing schemes should be assessed
as carefully as the costs and benefits of other medicines
to make sure they genuinely offer the NHS value for money, according
to a position statement from the Cancer Network Pharmacists Forum that
is endorsed by the British Oncology Pharmacy Association
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354 Apathy may undermine supplementary prescribing Medical
apathy and the introduction of independent prescribing may undermine the success
of supplementary prescribing, according to a study published
in Health Policy
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354 Epoetin delta approved for use in NHS Wales Epoetin
delta and intravenous topotecan have been recommended for use within NHS Wales,
following Ministerial ratification of recommendations
made at the February meeting of the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
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354 Desktop clinical information resource launched
for NHS NHS employees in England will be able to
search for clinical information — from resources such as the British National
Formulary and the National Library for Health — via their Windows desktop
and Microsoft Office from April using a new service launched by the NHS Common
User Interface team at NHS Connecting for Health
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355 Digital versions of new
BNF include extra entries Digital versions of the
latest British National Formulary now include a range of multi-ingredient preparation
monographs not available in
print
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355 NICE offers advice on helping mothers and
pregnant women make decisions about lifestyle Guidance
on how to help pregnant women and mothers make decisions about their diet and
lifestyle has been issued by the National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence
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356 EU sets out plans to make
it easier to spot counterfeit medicines Consultation
has started on plans to make it harder for counterfeit medicines to circulate
in the EU and to
make it easier to spot them when they do
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356 Italy to offer international pharmacy degree A
new pharmacy degree course with an international focus is to open its doors to
students later this year
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356 Smoking ban cuts heart attacks Banning
smoking in public places in Italy preceded an immediate reduction in acute coronary
events, such as heart attacks
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356 Records plan to spot ADRs The
electronic health records of 30 million patients from around Europe, including
the UK, are to be used to try to identify adverse drug reactions
that clinicians
have failed to spot
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356 EU applications up Applications
for new marketing authorisations under the EU’s centralised procedure are
expected to rise by 12 per cent in 2008
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356 Irish pharmacies face cuts Pharmacies
in Ireland face a dramatic cut in income as the Health Services Executive seeks
to reduce the on-cost payments it makes when prescriptions are dispensed
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356 Parallel traders complain Parallel
traders have complained to the EC that a government-endorsed dual pricing scheme
in Spain restricts competition and consumer choice
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357 Age to start HIV therapy
in children needs research Large randomised controlled
trials to determine when to initiate treatment with antiretroviral therapy in
children with HIV are urgently needed
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357 Pharmacists can play a role in identifying
patients at risk of typhoid Incidence of typhoid
and paratyphoid among UK travellers visiting friends and relatives in the Indian
subcontinent is increasing
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357 Strategies needed to increase access to
drug
paraphernalia Strategies are needed to increase
the distribution of needles and syringes to injecting drug users, according to
research published by the Scottish
Government
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358 NHS pharmacy workforce
rises by 2 per cent between 2006 and 2007 The number
of qualified pharmacy staff working in the NHS rose by nearly 2 per cent from
September 2006 to September 2007
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358 Supply of invoice information to become
statutory in April Voluntary invoice inquiries — used
to find out how much community pharmacies in England pay for medicines so that
reimbursement prices can be fixed in the Drug Tariff — are to be made statutory
again
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358 Collection of data on patient outcomes will
become routine, predicts OHE commission Collection
of data on patient outcomes will become routine for most conditions and NHS activity
in the next five years, according to a health
economics commission
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358 PCT decisions should be scrutinised locally Primary
care trusts must be held to account for their decisions locally as well as nationally,
according to four pharmacy organisations in their
joint response to a Local Government Association inquiry in England
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