News summary
New cancer research network
should make novel treatments available to more patients A new
network of Government-funded cancer research centres has been established
to make experimental treatments accessible to more patients...[more]
Award scheme will allow pharmacists to take time
out for research or training An award scheme that will allow
UK-based pharmacists in permanent employment to take time out and engage
in research or training has been introduced by the charity, PPP Foundation...[more]
Top-performing hospitals could be rewarded with
greater freedom Hospitals that achieve the maximum three-star
rating in the Department of Health's assessment exercise could be rewarded
with greater financial and managerial freedom. Such hospitals would be
subjected to reduced control from Whitehall...[more]
Hospital Pharmacists Group: stronger links to
be made The Hospital Pharmacists Group is a small part of the
Society, but it is the engine for innovation, remarked Keith Farrar, chairman
of the group, at the January HPG committee meeting...[more]
NEWS IN BRIEF
The Cardiac and Critical Care Organisation
is holding a conference entitled "Cardiology and Diabetes Therapeutics
and Practice Update" on 24–25 May in central London. The provisional programme
includes a session on advances in the management of stroke, the special
feature in this issue of HP. Registration fee, which includes
lunch but not accommodation, is £145 (late fees apply after 1 April).
Further details are available from Louise Martin, conference organiser,
on 020 7928 6572.
A new report compiled by 21 organisations,
including Help the Aged and Age Concern, shows that social care is
in crisis and that, increasingly, the elderly have to rely on informal
carers. In this issue of HP there is a paper investigating the
role and problems that informal carers have in relation to medicines (PDF*
75K).
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