Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 14 pp209-240 No 7
July/August 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Comment   210

Electronic prescribing — “I wannit and I wannit now!” 210
By Derek Swanson, MRPharmS
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News and research update   213-216

News summary  213-216
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-NPSA discourages the use of abbreviations on prescriptions
-Two hospital teams are winners of care awards
-Readership survey winners
-Spot checks on the hygiene of NHS trusts
-Staff turn to BNF-C first
-New measure for cardiac risk
-New paediatric medicines research centre
-Computerised orders reduce medicines errors

Special feature: Electronic prescribing   217-225

Life-long learning

Electronic prescribing — implications for hospital pharmacy 217-220
Evidence shows that there is much to be gained from electronic prescribing, but there are also risks involved. This article describes the benefits and challenges to hospital pharmacists of the introduction of this technology
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Electronic prescribing — developing the solution 221-224
This article describes progress with NHS Connecting for Health’s electronic prescribing programme. It outlines the draft functional requirements for electronic prescribing and describes pharmacy involvement in its development
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Electronic prescribing improves patient safety — an audit 225
Implementation of an electronic prescribing system in an acute trust has been shown to reduce adverse drug events. This article summarises the audit findings
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Careers   227-228

Careers

Becoming a good leader
Becoming a good leader — the role of mentoring 227-228
By Catherine Duggan MRPharmS, PhD, Catherine Mooney, MRPharmS, Pippa Roberts, MRPharmS, Chris Green, MRPharmS, Graeme Hall, MRPharmS, Philip Howard, MRPharmS, Richard Catell, MRPharmS, and John Quinn, MRPharmS
Mentoring is a recognised way of developing leadership skills, but its full potential has not been realised in pharmacy. This article examines the attitudes of pharmacist mentors and mentees and describes a mentorship database developed in response
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Meetings   229-233

Procurement and Distribution Interest Group
Let’s try to optimise, rather than maximise, savings 229-230
Procurement programmes need to make the best of the savings they achieve, the summer symposium of the Procurement and Distribution Interest Group of the GHP heard. Tom Moberly reports
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Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association
A revolution is on the doorstep — by decentralising services 231
Where might automation take us next? Attendees at the the UKCPA/GHP IT interest group seminar discussed how pharmacy services might look in the future. Hannah Pike reports
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Injectable medicines
Promoting safer use of injectables — implementing the NPSA alert 232-233
Two multidisciplnary workshops were held last month to help those involved in implementing the NPSA alert on safer use of injectable medicines. Christine Clark reports on the proceedings
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Letters   234-235

Safety of injectable medicines — follow national guides 234-235
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Focus on technicians   236

Focus on technicians

The Yorkshire approach to training accredited checking technicians 236
Rather than training accredited checking technicians “in house”at individual trusts, chief pharmacists in Yorkshire have commissioned a county-wide training programme. This article describes the course and the feedback received
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Life-long learning   237-238

Life-long learning

QUESTIONS: Electronic prescribing 238
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ANSWERS: Macular degeneration 237
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