| Comment 146
Agenda for Change — where to next? 146
Text PDF (30K)
News 149-150
News summary 149-150
Text PDF (50K)
• UK patients less involved in care decisions than patients overseas 149
• New role for hospital pharmacist 149
• Increases seen in numbers of pharmacists and support staff employed
by the NHS 149
• Independent pharmacist prescribing now legal but training still to
be finalised150
• Strategic health authority numbers set to be reduced from 28 to 10 150
• More generics should be used150
Special feature: Inflammatory bowel disease 153-166
Life-long learning
— the disease and its diagnosis 153-158
Summary PDF (60K)
Inflammatory bowel diseases are characterised by chronic, relapsing intestinal
inflammation. The first part of this month's special feature sets out the clinical
features and diagnosis of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
— drug treatment and its implications 161-166
Summary PDF (70K)
Most of the currently available drug treatments for
inflammatory bowel diseases aim to reduce the inflammation in the intestine.
The second part of this month’s
special feature gives information about the preparations used, including details
about drug delivery
Careers 169-192
Careers
KSF implementation — producing outlines for pharmacy staff 169-172
Text PDF (50K)
By Katey Hewitt, DipClinPharm, MRPharmS, Barry Jubraj, MSc, MRPharmS,
Desiree Cox, Dip JEB IT, and Suzie Ankrah, MRPharmS
By September, NHS Trusts are required to have assigned
Knowledge and Skills Framework outlines to each job and to have carried out their
first review. This article describes one trust's experience of using a pragmatic
approach to implement the KSF in the pharmacy department
Safety of medicines in practice 173-175
Safety of medicines in practice
Failure modes and effects — a tool for evaluating packaging safety? 173-175
Summary PDF (50K)
By Duncan Jenkins, PhD, MRPharmS, and Raj Gokani, MBA, MRPharmS
Failure modes and effects analysis is a tool that
was developed outside of health care but has been used in the US to evaluate
the safety of medicines packaging. This article describes how the approach, now
being trialled on a small scale in the UK, may fit in with existing risk reduction
processes
|
Articles 177-178
Antibiotic prescribing — a microbiology-pharmacy review 177-178
Text PDF (50K)
By Mark Cheeseman, BSc, DipClinPharm
Pharmacists are becoming increasingly involved in
monitoring antibiotic prescribing. This article describes a pilot study at Ipswich
Hospital NHS Trust designed to increase clinical pharmacists’ contribution
to patients on antimicrobial treatment. The study involved pharmacists identifying
and reviewing patients as a joint initiative with the microbiology department
Papers 179-182
Cost and health care benefits of an antimicrobial management programme 179-182
Abstract PDF (50K)
By Caron Weeks, MRPharmS, DipPharmPrac, Graeme Jones, MRCP, FRCPath, and Sarah
Wyllie, MRCP, MRCPath
OBJECTIVE — To assess the cost and health care
benefits of a multidisciplinary antimicrobial management team (AMT) comprising
a consultant microbiologist and a clinical pharmacist operating within the medical
and care of the elderly directorates of an NHS trust
Meetings 183-185
Reports
Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
Dreams and reality — practicalities of new IT systems 183-184
Text PDF (50K)
Progress with developing and implementing electronic prescribing systems was a key theme at this year’s Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists IT interest group seminar. Hannah Pike reports
United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group
Delivering the mental health pharmacy workforce 185
Text PDF (30K)
Topical issues affecting the mental health pharmacy workforce were discussed at a recent conference and preliminary results of a new workforce survey were presented. Ian Maidment, Siobhan Chadwick and Graham Parton report
Focus on technicians 186-188
Focus on technicians
Association of Pharmacy Technicians United Kingdom
New era for technicians 186-188
Text PDF (60K)
Adapting to changes in professional regulation while continuing to care for patients was the theme of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians United Kingdom (APTUK) conference. Rachel Graham reports
Life-long learning 189-190
Life-long learning
Inflammatory bowel disease 189-190
PDF (40K)
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text
• Reunions Text |
Hospital Pharmacist
