News summary
Collaborative approach
benefits English patients Over 800 lives have been
saved as a result of improvements made in coronary heart disease (CHD)
care through the National Primary Care Collaborative programme...[more]
Third wave of pilots announced A
third wave of 40 pilot sites for the national medicines management collaborative
was announced by Health Minister David Lammy at the British Pharmaceutical
Conference in Manchester on 25 September...[more]
Pharmacist-led review a success Pharmacist-led
medication reviews of elderly patients following their admission to hospital
result in more appropriate prescribing, researchers have found...[more]
Second medication review good for the elderly
A second medication review identifies additional clinical interventions
and benefits elderly patients, say researchers...[more]
Terms need better definition Medicines
management is a poorly defined concept, according to the preliminary indications
of an ongoing investigation into the nurse's role in medicines management
by Leeds University...[more]
GPs fail to use formularies
General practitioners agree and comply with local formularies,
but do not use them much, according to the results of a survey...[more]
First time prescriptions are too generous Over-prescribing
medication to patients when starting them on a new treatment regimen has
been blamed for a significant proportion of drug wastage by the authors
of a new study...[more]
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