NPSA praises chief pharmacists for response to the potassium safety alert Chief
pharmacists and trust managers have been praised by Professor David Cousins,
head of safe medication practices at the National Patient Safety Agency
(NPSA) for their response to the potassium chloride safety alert issued
last summer...more
Overseas patients Interim guidance
for overseas patient managers on charges for hospital treatment for patients
not ordinarily resident in the UK is available...more
Whistleblowing in the NHS Updated
guidance on whistleblowing in the NHS has been issued...more
Cancer statistics Latest statistics
on specific cancers are available...more
Award entries sought Entries are
called for in the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists and First DataBank
Europe's information technology award...more
Hospital food Results from the Department
of Health's inspection of the standards of cleanliness and food in NHS
hospitals, which show significant improvements, are available...more |
New editor Hospital Pharmacist has
a new editor...more
Supplementary prescribing training for
hospital pharmacists is under way Supplementary prescribing
courses are already under way at four universities (Homerton College,
Cambridge, Keele University, London Metropolitan University and Robert
Gordon University, Aberdeen) with courses at another four institutions
(University of Bradford, University of Leeds, King's College London
and University of Sunderland) set to begin in the near future...more
‘Agenda for change’ job evaluations
have started Job evaluations within pharmacy departments as
part of the ‘Agenda for change’ pay system have started...more
New guidance on patient confidentiality has
implications for Scottish pharmacists Pharmacists should expect
to contribute to a single set of multi disciplinary records according
to Dr Norman Lannigan, chief pharmacist at Lothian University Hospitals
NHS Trust...more |
