News summary
Guidance released
on how to conduct medication reviews A guide
on how to set up and carry out medication reviews has been launched
this month by the Medicines Partnership and the National Prescribing
Centre's medicines management collaborative...[more]
Official go ahead for pharmacist prescribing Guidance
on supplementary prescribing will be published early next year, the Department
of Health has confirmed...[more]
NI pharmacists to be mentored Community
pharmacists in Northern Ireland are to benefit from a mentoring scheme
as one of several measures designed to increase participation in its
medication review service...[more]
CPMM road show dates announced Pharmacists
will be able to obtain information and advice on how to deliver a medicines
management service from the Community Pharmacy Medicines Management project
road show...[more]
GPs question value of community pharmacy-based
medicines management General practitioners are not yet convinced
of the benefits that might come from community pharmacists taking on
medicines management within their own pharmacies...[more]
Medicines management information sharing in
development A single assessment tool for patient review that
allows health care workers and social services to share the same patient
information is being developed by the National Medicines Management Collaborative
in north east Derbyshire...[more]
Active relationship with partners crucial Pharmacy
students need to develop professional behaviour that conveys to patients
that they are available to assist them with their health and medication
needs, American researchers say...[more]
NPSA says hospitals must have safe medicines
practice committees Hospitals who do not already have a "safe
medicines practice committee" have been advised by Professor David
Cousins, head of safe medication practices at the National Patient Safety
Agency, to develop one...[more] |
