Local professional networks need you!
Pharmacists can mobilise their professional skills and experience to secure a place on one of NHS England’s pharmacy local professional networks Pharmacists in England will have been getting to know...
View ArticleContract applications reduced after the implementation of new regulations
Gian Celino, Nicola Gray and Vanessa Lane provide a brief summary of the number of pharmacy contract applications submitted to PCTs in England The number of new contract applications submitted to the...
View ArticleBerwick report highlights nonsense of criminal sanctions in healthcare
Criminal sanctions for healthcare errors should be extremely rare, national patient safety advisers have recommended. The Government-commissioned Berwick report on patient safety says it “makes no...
View ArticleAre there any benefits in using oral morphine for treating heroin addicts?
Many heroin addicts find standard methadone maintenance treatment to be an unpleasant and unsuccessful experience that puts them off trying again. Is oral morphine the answer? Many heroin addicts are...
View ArticleNHS England’s innovation fund covers medicines use
NHS England has launched a new fund which aims to transform the way that innovations within specialised services are identified, tested and adopted. The specialised services commissioning innovation...
View ArticleIndustry trial data pledge is under fire
The pharmaceutical industry is being charged with over-secrecy. Elizabeth Sukkar reports The pharmaceutical industry has been accused of “clinging to secrecy” after it published a document setting...
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How pharmacists can bring clinical expertise into patients’ own homes
The team are presented with their certificate. Pictured (from left): Martin Astbury, Royal Pharmaceutical Society President; Chetan Shah, principal pharmacist, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust; Jill...
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Pharmacy practice in sport: medicines management for travelling squads
Steve Simbler describes his contribution to helping British Athletics streamline its systems for medicines ordering, storage and supply to athletes One of the great advantages of working in sport,...
View ArticleThe numbers game
Last week, The Journal followed a live Twitter chat (#PSchat) hosted by The Pharmacy Show, at which the president of the British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association led a discussion on pharmacy...
View ArticleHave medicines use reviews come to represent profit over patient care?
Elizabeth Sukkar explores how pharmacists are feeling the pressure to hit MUR targets Back in 2005 a new service was introduced for patients in England and Wales: the medicine use review — a great...
View ArticleBerwick report highlights nonsense of criminal sanctions in healthcare
Criminal sanctions for healthcare errors should be extremely rare, national patient safety advisers have recommended. The Berwick report on patient safety, commissioned by the Government in the wake...
View ArticleLong-term calcium-channel blocker use linked with breast cancer
Older women who have taken calcium-channel blockers for 10 years or longer have a higher risk of breast cancer than women prescribed other antihypertensives or who have never taken antihypertensives,...
View ArticlePharmacist input essential for integrated care, says SPB
Pharmacist expertise should be a statutory requirement wherever medicines are used in patient care, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Pharmacy Board has said in response to a Scottish...
View ArticleAntioxidants do not improve conception rates
A woman’s chances of conceiving are not improved by taking antioxidant supplements, according to a Cochrane systematic review (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2013, issue 8). Researchers...
View ArticleAppetite for business module in MPharm course
MPharm students have expressed interest in completing a business module as part of their degree, in a survey conducted by a research team at Liverpool John Moores University (Pharmacy Practice...
View ArticleA&E funding could be spent on extending pharmacy services
Community pharmacy services could benefit from some of the £500m funding pledged by the Government today (8 August 2013) to ease pressures on accident and emergency departments. According to Prime...
View ArticleMUR pharmacist exonerated as Co-op non-pharmacist manager is criticised by...
Allegations against a pharmacist about dishonest submissions for payments for medicines use reviews have been dismissed by the fitness-to-practise committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council. In...
View ArticleProbiotics do not prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhoea, RCT suggests
Older patients are not protected from antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) by taking probiotics, the results of a large randomised placebo-controlled trial published online (8 August 2013) in The...
View ArticleNICE formulary guidance amended to improve clarity
Good practice guidance on developing and updating local formularies from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has been amended to improve clarity. The phrase "if clinically...
View ArticlePPRS proposals welcomed by hospital pharmacists
Hospital pharmacists have welcomed Government proposals to introduce statutory price controls linked to the average selling price of NHS drugs to hospitals, which it claims will for the first time...
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