147 Chief
pharmacists call for more collaboration and leadership Collaboration and leadership in the establishment of the new professional body for pharmacists have been called for by the UKs four chief pharmacists
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147 APTUK/AAH hospital
technician of the year 2006 winners presented A
project to promote the safe, rational and prudent prescribing of
antibiotics in Northumbria Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust has
won the clinical category of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians
UK/AAH Hospital Service Technician of the Year Award 2006
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RESEARCH UPDATE
148 Pharmacists best at detecting
adverse drug events from charts When reviewing
drug charts, pharmacists are better than other health care professionals
at detecting harm caused by the use of a drug. This is the conclusion
of a study published
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148 Computers do not guarantee patient
safety Using computers to calculate drug doses
does not necessarily prevent human error from occurring, according to the authors
of a recent BMJ case report
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148 Drug naming conventions explained International
non-proprietary names (INNs) should be useable in as many languages as possible
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148 Pharmacists are key to upholding
guidelines Interventions by clinical pharmacists
are an effective means of encouraging doctors to adhere to prescribing guidelines
that are designed to reduce the incidence of chronic heart disease in patients
admitted to a US hospital with acute myocardial infarction
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148 Elderly drug burden index developed A
drug burden index for use in older people has been developed by US researchers
and published
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147 NEWS
IN BRIEF
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“How healthy is your hospital?” is the question posed by the recently
launched 2007
Hospital Guide, compiled by Doctor Foster Intelligence.
Among the findings is that some trusts do not have an antibiotic pharmacist
in post — only
25 per cent of trusts in Wales have an antibiotic pharmacist, compared
with 91 per cent of trusts in southern central England.
Training events (sponsored by Baxter) aimed
at those involved in implementing the recent National Patient Safety
Agency alert on safer
use of injectable medicines
are to be held on 13 June (in London) and 25 June (in Harrogate). Attendance
is free of charge.
Further details are available by
e-mailing: patient_safety_uk@baxter.com
A summary
of the first meeting of the National Patient Safety Forum
(held on 14 February 2007) is available from the Department of Health
website.
Decision-making methods used by the National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence are currently under review. Consultation on
the revised draft is expected to begin in November.
Results from the Healthcare Commission’s latest (2006)
annual NHS staff survey, taking into account the views of staff
from 326 trusts, have been published.
The Central Office for Research Ethics Committee has been renamed
the National Research Ethics Service (NRES). |
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