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How to bid to join the "collaborative"
After one application failed, but the next succeeded, Brian Curwain describes
the process of applying to join the medicines management "collaborative"
programme
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Why wholesalers are joining
the party and helping set up new services
Sam Crowe investigates what pharmaceutical wholesalers are offering to
help community pharmacists establish medicines management services
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40K
Morbidity
mapping; a technique to help link needs and services in primary care
Ensuring medicines are correctly targeted in the NHS is increasingly important,
both to tackle health inequalities and as a means to maximise scarce resources.
Steve Chapman and Heath Heatlie describe a technique that they have developed
to help, specifically, primary care organisations in England
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Automated dispensing could be
the way forward for your department
Both "A Spoonful of Sugar" (the report from the Audit Commission into
medicines management in NHS hospitals) and the "Pharmacy Plan" advocate
automated dispensing for a variety of reasons — not least the release
of staff from routine dispensary tasks. Patrick Martin describes his experience
in installing an automated system
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Ways
to reduce the use of anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs in primary care
Suzanne Berry describes how one doctors’ practice has reduced the prescribing
of hypnotics and anxiolytics by a third. This included sending letters
to patients to spell out the benefits to them
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PDF*
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Software designed to make life
easier for pharmacists
Christine Clarke describes a software initiative supported by Pharmacia
that could help pharmacists with decision-making
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Development
of a personal medication record card for elderly patients
Why a medication card has been designed to help elderly patients remember
their medicines. Gabrielle Clezy describes the initiative
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What you need to do to establish
and benefit from a joint formulary
Joint acute/primary care trust formularies should bring benefits to patients
as they help rationalise prescribing and keep costs under control. Sam
Crowe reports
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Faculty announces first annual
conference will take place in May 2002
Many people may be asking themselves the question "What can the Faculty
of Prescribing and Medicines Management do for me?" Richard Seal, member
of the faculty board and medicines management advisory board, gives
some answers
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