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677 Less serious
errors to be dealt with by inspectors Up to 200 fewer cases per year could be referred to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Investigating Committee after the Council agreed this week that less serious complaints against pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be handled by the Society’s Inspectorate
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677 Steve Churton elected as the Society’s
President by a narrow margin Steve Churton has been elected President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society by the Society’s Council this week. In a close contest Mr Churton, who is head of professional practice at Boots UK, received 13 votes to Gerald Alexander’s 12 in the final round
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677 PSNC negotiations with Department of Health
fall behind Fluctuations in incomes are likely to continue for community pharmacy contractors in England and Wales after the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee admitted this week that its negotiations with the Department of Health are not yet sufficiently far advanced to enable it to agree changes to fees and allowances in time for the July 2008 Drug Tariff
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677 Society proposes inflation-only fee rise
and staged payments Royal Pharmaceutical Society fees for next year will be increased only around the level of inflation, the Society’s Council has proposed. Staged payment of fees are also planned
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678 Novartis strikes wholesaling
deal Novartis is to reduce the number of wholesalers
that will supply its medicines to two during the summer. But the manufacturer
will not be going down the direct-to-pharmacy route: it has announced that AAH
Pharmaceuticals and UniChem will take on contracts to sell Novartis products
throughout the UK, retaining their wholesaler status
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678 GIRP president “optimistic” about
Alliance Boots rejoining The European Association of Pharmaceutical Full-line Wholesalers (GIRP) remains committed to the interests of full-line wholesaling but has redefined its aims and remodelled its byelaws in awareness of the different business models that many wholesalers have adopted
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678 Pharmacy smoking cessation services in Sheffield
aided by development worker Community pharmacy
technicians and dispensary staff in Sheffield helped to increase the number of
people who stopped smoking by 112 per cent in just three years after the appointment
of a development worker to the smoking cessation service
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679 Scottish collegiate sets
out its key objectives Scotland’s new academic leadership forum — the Scottish Collegiate of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists — set out its strategy this week
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679 GMC recruiting new council The General Medical Council — responsible for medical regulation — has taken the next step on its road to reform. It announced this week that it is starting to recruit its new council
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679 Trial will not affect NHS budget A
clinical trial taking place in Scotland, which compares celecoxib with traditional
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, will not result in increased prescribing
costs for the NHS
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679 Fondaparinux approved for use in Wales Use
of fondaparinux (Arixtra) has been approved within NHS Wales for two indications,
following ministerial ratification of recommendations made at the April 2008
meeting of the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
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679 Pharmacy staff up in Wales NHS
pharmacy staff numbers in Wales rose to 1,337 (1,076.7 whole-time equivalents)
in 2007, an increase of around 9 per cent on 2006, according to Welsh Assembly
Government statistics
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680 PCT enhances its pharmacy
diabetes services Community pharmacists in London’s East End are hoping to reach an estimated 3,000 local people with undiagnosed diabetes in a new scheme, due to begin this week
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680 NPA to help members win service contracts Guidance
to help UK community pharmacists bid successfully for services commissioned by
primary care organisations is being developed by the National Pharmacy Association
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680 Pharmacy IT training available from NHS
CfH Subsidised IT training for pharmacy staff in
England is now available through NHS Connecting for Health. The agency has opened
its essential IT skills programme to all community pharmacists and support staff,
including locums, who use, or intend to use, National Programme for IT systems
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680 Screening for Chlamydia A
competencies and training framework for community pharmacsts involved in providing
chlamydia screening and treatment services has been published by the harmonisation
of accreditation group (HAG)
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680 Managing meningitis Guidance
on recognising and managing invasive meningococcal infection in children and
adolescents has been launched by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
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680 Checking-up on commissioning The
National Pharmacy Association and the Centre for Public Scrutiny have drafted
a paper to help local authority overview and scrutiny committees highlight areas
where a primary care trust may need to think about commissioning pharmacy services
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681 Cut redundant medicines
in elderly cancer patients Older patients with
terminal cancers are frequently taking several drugs for co-morbidities, many
of which could be stopped to reduce adverse reactions and simplify their treatment,
according to a US study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology
annual meeting held in Chicago last weekend
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681 Continuing trastuzumab after cancer progression
extends survival Continuing treatment with trastuzumab
(Herceptin) increases progression-free survival in women with advanced HER2-positive
breast cancer and whose cancer has progressed despite use of the drug, results
from the first randomised study to assess this issue show
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681 Public unaware of electronic records despite
extensive information programme, study finds Most
people are unclear about current policy on shared electronic records despite
an extensive information programme in early adopter sites, according to the authors
of a study published online last week
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682 Prucalopride effective
in severe chronic constipation, study shows Prucalopride,
a selective, high-affinity 5-HT4 receptor agonist, improves bowel function and
reduces severity of symptoms over 12 weeks in patients with severe chronic constipation,
results of a phase III trial show
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682 Non-emergency patients to be screened for
MRSA All non-emergency patients will be screened
for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus before admission to hospital,
as part of a pilot project launched in Scotland this week
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682 Axitinib and pancreatic cancer Axitinib
has shown promise for people with advanced pancreatic cancer in a phase II study,
published online
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682 HIV drug in eye research HIV
protease inhibitors (PIs) could help to prevent vision loss resulting from retinal
detachment, research in mice suggests
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682 Opioid-induced constipation More patients with opioid-induced constipation given subcutaneous methylnaltrexone — a µ-opioid-receptor antagonist — had
relief within four hours of the first dose than those on placebo
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682 Novel antimicrobial for MRSA Five
strains of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus have failed to develop
resistance to a novel antimicrobial agent during laboratory tests, according
to a study presented at the recent European Conference of Clinical Microbiology
and Infectious Diseases in Barcelona
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683 New funds for pharmacist
prescribing in Scotland Pharmacist-run prescribing
clinics in Scotland received a boost last week with the announcement of new funding
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683 Recovery key to Scottish drug misuse strategy Recovery from drug addiction is the focus of the Scottish Government’s new national drugs strategy
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683 New professional body discussed in Scotland Pharmacists in Scotland voiced their opinions last week on the future of pharmacy’s professional body. The debates took place at a series of roadshows across Scotland organised by the Scottish Pharmacy Board
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