Winners of the pharmaceutical care awards are
announced A pharmacist-led hypertension and cardiac risk clinic for patients with diabetes at Harrogate District Hospital won the “innovation in hospital pharmacy” category of the 2003 Pharmaceutical Care Awards...more
New-look Brompton pharmacy opened A newly renovated pharmacy at the Royal Brompton Hospital was opened in June by Lord Newton of Braintree, chairman of the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust...more
NHS trusts performance ratings published Performance
ratings for NHS trusts in England for the year to March 2003 have been
published by CHI...more
National standards for instrument decontamination New
national standards for the decontamination of surgical instruments have
been developed by NHS estates...more
Online legal status of medicines Up-to-date
guidance on the legal status of thousands of human medicines is now available
from a searchable live database on the Society's website...more
Medical students training New training
recommendations for medical students have been produced by the British
Pharmacological Society...more
Proposed health legislation in Scotland Proposed
legislation to restructure the health service in Scotland has been announced...more
New Chairman of Hospital Pharmacist Group Richard
Needle (chief pharmacist, Essex Rivers NHS Trust) and Simon Riley (chief
pharmacist, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust) have been re-elected as chairman
and vice-chairman respectively of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Hospital Pharmacist Group for the year to July 2004...more |
Medication error prevention package A
package of measures to prevent medication errors involving the use of
methotrexate have been announced by the National Patient Safety Agency
(NPSA)...more
Technician of the year winner is announced The
AAH hospital pharmacy technician of the year award 2003 has been won
by Marie-Louise Lewis, senior medicines managment technician,Glan Clwyd
Hopsital, Bodelwyddan, Clwyd for her paper “Does a technician led
ward medicines management service reduce error?”...more
Funding boost secured for clinical pharmacists
in Mid Yorkshire Trust Pharmacy managers at Mid Yorkshire
NHS Trust have recently secured over £500,000 from the trusts'
directors to implement a new medicines management strategy...more
HPG calls for information on error prevention
initiatives Making other health care professionals and the
public more aware of the contribution that hospital pharmacists make
in preventing medication errors would raise the profile of pharmacists,
according to Keith Farrar, a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Hospital Pharmacist Group (HPG)...more
Appoint consultant pharmacists, pharmacy plan
update says Appointing consultant pharmacists to develop clinical
services, is among the practices advocated in the update to the pharmacy
plan, called “A vision for pharmacy in the new NHS”, published
last week by the Department of Health...more |
