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Scotland agrees frameworks for pharmaceutical care Community
pharmacists in Scotland are to begin developing model schemes for pharmaceutical care for palliative
care patients and the frail elderly, following the publication of steps frameworks for each condition...[more]
DoH bids to improve epilepsy care through medicines management Clinicians
involved in the national "sudden death in epilepsy" audit will take part in future national
medicines management collaborative workshops in a bid to improve the deficiencies in drug management
highlighted by the report...[more]
"Rep" visits linked with script costs More research into
the relationship between GPs who see drug company representatives and high cost prescribers would help
PCTs develop more cost-effective prescribing policies, according to the authors of one of the first studies
to examine the link...[more] |
Pharmacists to prescribe weight loss drug under patient group direction Trained
community pharmacists in the UK could soon be prescribing the anti-obesity drug orlistat under
a patient
group direction, published last month...[more]
Measure the benefits of concordance Health professionals
involved in implementing a partnership approach to medicines taking have been offered a new toolkit that
aims to measure the impact and benefits of the approach...[more]
Pharmacist intervention scheme in Devon Community pharmacists
in Devon taking part in a new pharmacist intervention scheme are to be paid £5 per intervention
in an initial six-month pilot...[more]
Savings predicted by Coventry PCT Coventry PCT is predicting
that it will find substantial savings once its prescription review and intervention scheme with education
(PRISE) is rolled out to all 63 of its practices...[more] |
