Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 9 No 10 p283-284
November 2002

News summary

Branch meetings   Future Events   Conferences

Pharmacists given official right to prescribe from next year Pharmacists will be allowed to prescribe medicines on the National Health Service from next year, and nurses will be able to prescribe a wider range of medicines, the Department of Health announced on 21 November...[more]

Winner of Hospital Pharmacist Credit for Learning announced at pre-conference dinner The Hospital Pharmacist Credit for Learning award 2001/2002 has been won by Mr Greg Sargent...[more]

Many patients are not receiving essential regular medicines before operations Essential regular medicines are not being given to a large number of patients before their operations, according to data collected as part of the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD)...[more]

New computerised error-reducing system at Charing Cross Charing Cross Hospital, part of the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, has agreed to be a beta test site (IT equivalent of a phase II trial) for a new ward-based computerised system for nurses to use on medicines rounds...[more]


NEWS IN BRIEF

Beverley Harrison, MRPharmS, has been appointed staff editor on Hospital Pharmacist. She replaces Olumide Cole, who resigned in September to take up an appointment with the Medicines Control Agency. For Mrs Harrison, it is a return to Hospital Pharmacist after a three-year career break when she spent time with her young family. Before that, she edited Hospital Pharmacist and was instrumental in its growth from a quarterly supplement of The Pharmaceutical Journal to the journal it is today.

Pharmacist prescribing will be the theme for the 2003 Hospital Pharmacist conference. This will be the Hospital Pharmacist's seventh annual conference and will take place at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in London (date to be confirmed). There will also be a pre-conference dinner. The conference will consider the professional, legal and political issues surrounding pharmacist prescribing. As the first pharmacist prescribers are expected to be in place by late 2003, pharmacist prescribing will soon make a significant impact on the profession.

A new website has been launched to help patients suffering from chemotherapy and radiation induced nausea and vomiting. The website provides information on the causes of nausea and vomiting, and offers advice on management strategies. The site has been written by a medical writer and is supported by an educational grant from Roche Pharmaceuticals. It can be accessed at www.CancerNausea.com.