197 Diamorphine
advice issued by National Patient Safety Agency NHS
organisations in England and Wales have been advised to review
and improve the way that high dose ampoules of morphine and diamorphine
injections are prescribed, stored and administered
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197 New
guild president elected Anthony Oxley, associate director
of medicines management at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust,
has been elected president of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
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198 Prescribing
will increase pharmacists’ role in the reporting of adverse
drug reactions Pharmacists' roles in reporting adverse
drug reactions (ADRs) will become increasingly important as the
part they play in prescribing grows, according to Vivienne Nathanson,
head of ethics and science at the British Medical Association.
She was speaking at the launch of a BMA report into ADRs
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198 Computerised
provider order entry reduces child chemotherapy errors Implementing
a computerised provider order entry (CPOE) system reduces the number
of errors made when ordering paediatric chemotherapy, according
to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Sidney
Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, US
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198 Better clinical
pharmacy studies needed Future studies into the effect that clinical
pharmacists have on patient outcomes should describe interventions in sufficient
detail that they can be reproduced. They should also measure outcomes using validated
instruments and, ideally, involve more than one centre. These are among the suggestions
of US researchers, who carried out a literature review of clinical pharmacy papers
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197 NEWS
IN BRIEF
Information about pharmacist independent prescribing in the form
of frequently
asked questions is now available from the Department of Health.
Advice
to mental health trusts applying for NHS foundation trust
status, highlighting both opportunities and risks, has been published
by the Department of Health.
Scotland now has a pharmacist prescribing
co-ordinator. The role of Annamarie McGregor is to identify good practice
and use this to develop both supplementary and independent prescribing
in all settings across Scotland.
All drug studies involving human testing should be registered, according
to the World Health Organization. The WHO is in the process of setting
up an internet search portal that will allow people to search all accessible
trials that meet the requirements of its platform.
Postcode prescribing continues in the NHS because of failings in
the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence interacts
with the health care system, according to Richard Barker, director
general of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
Mr Barker was speaking at a media event held last month. |
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