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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and an influential leader in U.S. healthcare, spotlights the important role pharmacists have improving medication safety in emergency departments (EDs) in a commentary in a recent edition of the Journal of Patient Safety. In ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has updated the list Substances of Misuse which was last reviewed in 2004. The revised list, available on the Society's website, provides details of: non-medicinal products; general sale list medicines; pharmacy medicines;prescription-only medicines; and controlled drugs and chemicals that could potentially bemisused. The ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Sue Sharpe, Chief Executive Officer, PSNC, commented on the publication of the pharmacy White Paper: "I am delighted that the White Paper proposes implementation of a wide range of community pharmacy based services that will offer people easy access to help them stay healthy, and extend the part community pharmacists ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) advisory panel recently recommended that the agency look into new methods for reimbursing hospitals for pharmacy services. The Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) Advisory Panel issued its recommendations following a meeting last month where ASHP and other stakeholders provided testimony about the ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
French drugs research company Servier, whose UK headquarters is based at Wexham Springs in Berkshire, has announced that as of 1 April 2008 the tert-butylamine salt will be replaced by the arginine salt. Coversyl will be replaced by Coversyl Arginine, containing active ingredients perindopril arginine. Coversyl Plus will be replaced ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
According to boots.com there has been a surge in Brits turning to 'private' health care, with people going online to check out embarrassing conditions. According to new research* by the Boots' health information website 'AskBoots', the top five most researched conditions are: - The menopause- Thrush- Cystitis- Chlamydia- Haemorrhoids AskBoots ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Commenting on the Report of The Clarke Inquiry into a future professional body for pharmacy, released last week, CCA & AIMp Ltd Chief Executive Rob Darracott, said: "CCA and AIMp welcome this Report. Against what must have been a very difficult timescale, Nigel Clarke and his Inquiry Team must be ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The NPA has produced a resource to help members, in England and Wales, review their dispensing procedures in order to minimise the risks associated with oral methotrexate therapy. The resource comprises a template Standard Operating procedure (SOP) for the supply of oral methotrexate and guidance notes. The model NPA SOP ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The NPA welcomes the Pharmacy in England White Paper as a statement of faith in community pharmacy. Subject to satisfactory follow-up negotiations and sufficient impetus to help pharmacy over the obstacles still in the way of an expanded clinical role is and, provided that momentum can be sustained, the sector ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Commenting on the Government's White Paper on pharmacies, released on April 3, CCA and AIMp Ltd Chief Executive, Rob Darracott, said: "The CCA and AIMp welcome the significant intent by Government to develop the role of the community pharmacist in England, as outlined in the White Paper 'Building on Strengths, ...
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