News summary
PCTs
start to set their criteria for LPS pilots Primary
care trusts have begun to set out their ideas for the types of services
that community pharmacists might provide under local pharmaceutical services
pilots, ranging from support for community services, to using pharmacies
to increase access to services by patients from ethnic minorities ...[more]
Pharmacist calls for national
fees for medicines management A primary care pharmacist
has called for a nationally negotiated set scale of fees for medicines
management services to be introduced ...[more]
Scotland making progress
on model schemes for pharmaceutical care Best practice
standards in each of the three model schemes for pharmaceutical care in
Scotland are close to being finalised, and should be signed off during
the summer ...[more]
Pioneer pharmacists begin to provide new in-house services
AAH Pharmaceuticals has recruited two-thirds of the 25 community pharmacists
it is seeking to take part in its pilot medicines management initiative,
Vantage Health Watch ...[more]
Prescription volumes rise in wake of pharmacy-led BP monitoring scheme
Prescription volumes have risen 16 per cent at an innovative
community pharmacy that is offering a blood pressure monitoring service
to its customers ...[more]
Prescribing consultation Pharmacists involved in medication
review clinics have welcomed proposals to allow pharmacists to become
supplementary prescribers ...[more]
Name change? Pharmacists have rejected a call to change
their name to pharmacotherapists if they offer pharmaceutical care or
medicines management services ...[more]
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