News summary
DoH hands pharmacists role in diabetes care Pharmacists
will play a central role in supporting the NSF for diabetes through improved medicines management
services, the Department of Health's delivery strategy says...[more]
Pharmacists warned not to accept fees when working with industry Pharmacists
have been warned not to accept fees or inducements for agreeing to meet representatives of the
pharmaceutical industry...[more]
Second wave pilots making good progress PCTs in the second
wave of pilots from the English medicines management collaborative are already making good progress
on each of the four practice level improvement measures just six months after going live...[more]
Educators express concern over teaching prescribing skills Members
of the academic pharmacy group have voiced their concerns over how the teaching of prescribing
skills will be incorporated into the undergraduate degree course for pharmacy students...[more]
Individual patients influence doctors’ views of appropriate prescribing Doctors
view appropriate and inappropriate prescribing in terms of individual patients and drugs rather
than at a more general public health level, new research suggests...[more]
Vitiligo patients failed People with vitiligo are not having
their pharmaceutical care needs met by pharmacists or GPs, say the authors of a questionnaire
study of 130 vitiligo sufferers...[more]
Pharmacies hold society together Research on how community
pharmacies link in with regeneration efforts may prove helpful in identifying how pharmacies
could help attract new services to deprived areas, according to the authors of a study presented
at the 12th International Social Pharmacy Workshop, Australia...[more] |
