Prescribing & Medicines Management
Issue no 2
March/April 2003
ISSN 1474-192X

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Generic medicines management framework underway
A national service framework devoted to medicines management for diabetes, renal medicine and long-term neurological conditions is in development. Debbie Andalo reports
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Pharmaceutical companies join in
Pharmaceutical manufacturers are only just beginning to support medicines management initiatives. Sam Crowe explains what GlaxoSmithKline are now doing
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Feedback on brand-switching of diltiazem preparations
In a previous issue of Medicines Management (2002, 3, p13) Monica Kapoor discussed the importance of prescribing longer-actingpreparations of modified-release diltiazem by brand. She described how she had undertaken brand-switching of diltiazem modified-release preparations to Zemtard XL® capsules. Now she is able to report on the outcome of this switch
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Blood pressure checks just for starters
A successful blood-pressure monitoring service, led by pharmacists, has opened the door to many other opportunities. Sam Crowe reports
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Supplementary prescribing — opportunity of a generation
An estimated 1,000 pharmacists and 10,000 nurses will have been trained as supplementary prescribers by the end of 2004. Naomi Kempner explores how the scheme is going to work, who will be the first prescibers and how it might affect medicines management schemes
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Faculty tackles pharmacist prescribing
The theme of supplementary prescribing by pharmacists proved to be a hot topic for the Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management's first one-day conference. The event was held in Nottingham in November 2002 and attracted considerable interest with all the 125 available places being rapidly filled
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