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Trusts appoint pharmacists from Spain in pilot recruitment scheme Five
pharmacists have been recruited from Spain to work in National Health
Service hospitals, as part of a collaboration between the United Kingdom
and Spanish governments on the recruitment of health service staff...[more]
Safety alert: action required by 31 October
Chief pharmacists and pharmaceutical advisers in NHS and primary care
trusts have been asked to ensure that, by the end of October, all solutions
of concentrated potassium chloride are restricted to pharmacy department
and critical care areas where they may be needed for urgent use...[more]
AAH technician of the year announced
Jason Hobson, from Barnsley General Hospital, has won the 2002 AAH Hospital
Pharmacy Technician of the Year award...[more]
Government plans to make bedside medicines lockers
widely available The Government wants the use of patient medicines
lockers to become widespread in NHS hospitals, as part of plans to reduce
wastage of medicines in the health service...[more]
Barcode technology could help reduce adverse
events A new device that uses barcode technology to record
basic patient information could help to reduce adverse events in hospitals...[more]
Accreditation scheme now in place for MI technicians
The UK Medicines Information Pharmacists Group has introduced
an accredited training scheme for pharmacy technicians with a current
role in medicines information...[more] |
