213 NPSA
discourages the use of abbreviations on prescriptions Use of the abbreviations “u” and “iu” when issuing handwritten prescriptions is formally discouraged by the National Patient Safety Agency
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213 Two hospital teams
are winners of care awards Two projects from County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust were among the winners of this year’s Pharmaceutical Care Awards, organised by The Pharmaceutical Journal and sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline and the Company Chemists’ Association
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213 Readership survey winners Hospital
Pharmacist would like to thank all those who completed the readership survey
that was sent out with the May issue of the journal and appeared on PJ Online
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214 Spot checks on the hygiene of NHS
trusts Unannounced inspections are to be carried
out at 120 NHS trusts over the coming year as part of the Government's drive
to reduce health care-associated infections
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214 Staff turn to BNF-C first Recent
research shows that the British National Formulary for Children (BNF-C) is the
first resource that 74 per cent of health care professionals turn to when seeking
information about the use of medicines in children
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RESEARCH UPDATE
216 New measure for cardiac risk Researchers
have developed a new way of predicting the risk of developing heart disease
that they say gives a lower, and more realistic, risk forecast than the
currently accepted US Framingham algorithm or the recently developed
Scottish ASSIGN score
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216 New paediatric medicines research
centre A paediatric medicines research centre has
been launched by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
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216 Computerised orders reduce medicine
errors Using computerised orders, rather than
handwritten ones, reduces prescribing errors by as much as two thirds, a study
suggests
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213 NEWS
IN BRIEF
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Jeremy
Holmes has been appointed Chief Executive and Registrar of
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Mr Holmes is a former managing
director of the Economists Advisory Group (a think tank and economic
research organisation)
and was most recently a director of the strategy consultancy PMSI.
He will take up his new post on 1 September 2007.
Information for patients about where they can receive medical treatment is available on a new
website launched by the Department of Health
last month.
NHS
Choices also provides information about medical conditions
and treatment options.
The Department of Health has published a good practice guide for
those involved in NHS procurement. “Beyond
procurement: connecting procurement practice to patients” contains
practical advice to help commissioners and procurement staff promote
equality through procurement.
New
advice to NHS organisations about standardising hospital
wristbands has been issued by the National Patient
Safety Agency. The agency recommends that all NHS acute organisations
in England and Wales take immediate
action to implement the advice.
Views on the development of a national stroke strategy for
England are being sought by the Department of Health. The consultation
is open until 12 October 2007. |
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