107 Assess
risk of injectables in all clinical areas, NPSA tells trusts Risk assessing the preparation and use of injectable medicines in all clinical areas is one of the recommendations of a new work programme containing a series of five patient safety alerts issued by the National Patient Safety Agency at the end of last month
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107 Safety alliance launched
in Scotland Improving patient safety
in hospitals in Scotland is the aim of a new safety programme launched
in Scotland last month
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108 No hospital pharmacists stood for
election to Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council No
hospital pharmacists put themselves forward for election to the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society's Council. Six unreserved places for pharmacists were available and only
six nominations were received, from pharmacists currently practising in community,
primary care and industry
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108 Leaflets about drugs not valued by
patients Written information supplied with drugs
is not valued by patients, according to a recent Health Technology Assessmentreport
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RESEARCH UPDATE
109 Public unaware of walk-in
centre services for accidents The public
are unaware of the services offered at accident and emergency-focused
walk-in centres, and do not view them as their first choice for the treatment
of minor emergencies, according to a study
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109 Doctors view independent prescribing
as a step too far Many mentors of pharmacist supplementary
prescribers view independent prescribing as a step too far, according to a study
from Northern Ireland
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109 More neonatal error report studies
needed More studies of incident reporting systems
in neonatal intensive care are needed. Those studies that are available, and
which evaluate the impact of preventive strategies, suggest that pharmacist-led
review of drug orders prevents errors. These are among the conclusions from a
systematic review of papers about incident reporting systems in neonatal intensive
care, published online
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109 Trial validity decreased by too many
exclusions Otherwise well-designed randomised controlled
clinical trials might be of limited use to clinicians if too many patient populations
have been excluded is the conclusion of research
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107 NEWS
IN BRIEF
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Prescription charges in England and Scotland rose by 20p per item
(to £6.85) on 1 April 2007. Prescription charges in Wales were abolished
on the same date.
Draft guidelines on antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery have been published
by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. Further information
is available online
A new question and answer document clarifies aspects of the Department
of Health’s guidance
on practice-based commissioning that was
released last November (2006).
Pharmacy staff working for the NHS in England and Wales received
a 1.5 per cent pay rise effective from 1 April. The remainder of this
years’ 2.5 per cent award will be paid from 1 November. National
recruitment and retention premia (RRP) for pharmacists have not been
awarded but the pay review body has said it believes the case for a
national RRP warrants further investigation. Proposals to lift the
ceiling (at the top of band 6) for unsocial hours are out for consultation.
A consultation
to allow pharmacist independent prescribers to prescribe
Controlled Drugs is under way.
Over 75 per cent of hospital pharmacists use the British National
Formulary three times a day or more. This is according to research
commissioned by joint publishers RPS Publishing and the BMJ Publishing
Group. The results were announced as the latest BNF (53) was published
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