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A House of Commons Health Committee has called for dispensing errors to be decriminalised
Health Committee calls for pharmacists’ dispensing errors to be decriminalised
3 Jul 09 | 16.25 | England
The influential House of Commons Health Committee has called for dispensing errors made by pharmacists to be decriminalised following its inquiry into patient safety more >
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Updated asthma guideline clarifies emergency oxygen use and reinforces importance of action plans
3 Jul 09 | 16.13 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Acute asthma patients who are receiving oxygen therapy should be maintained at a peripheral oxygen saturation of 94–98 per cent, according to an updated guideline on the management of asthma, published by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the British Thoracic Society more >
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Early use of enalapril or losartan slows progression of diabetic retinopathy but not nephropathy
3 Jul 09 | 16.04 | International
Early use of enalapril or losartan slows the progression of retinopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes but does not slow the development of nephropathy, according to new research more >
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Lloydspharmacy launches online service for prescription malaria prophylaxis
3 Jul 09 | 16.19 | International
Lloydspharmacy has launched an online service for prescription malaria prophylaxis — atovaquone/proguanil, doxycycline or mefloquine — in partnership with the medical service provider Dr Thom
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Relying on pharmacists and their suppliers to roll out IT systems was risky strategy
3 Jul 09 | 16.15 | England
Relying on pharmacy suppliers and pharmacists to upgrade and roll out IT systems was a risky strategy, the Office of Government Commerce warned the Government as part of a review of the National Programme for IT conducted in 2004
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A challenge for pharmacy
3 Jul 09 | 12.00 | England Scotland Wales
This year’s finalists (2009) for the Pharmaceutical Care Awards offered a range of innovative ideas: from providing top class pharmaceutical support services to old people, to tackling health inequalities by improving sexual health services for young people in deprived areas of Manchester, and from improving the safety of medicine-taking in hospital to caring for patients with long-term conditions in community practice
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Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2009 (reports)
3 Jul 09 | 11.47 |
Reports from the Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2009, organised by The Pharmaceutical Journal and sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline
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PJ letters (4 July 2009) (RPSGB members only)
3 Jul 09 | 10.24 | England EU International Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Letters published in the 4 July 2009 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal more >
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Rational drug design — identifying and characterising a target
2 Jul 09 | 17.36 | International
Structure-based drug design is now a common method used by the pharmaceutical industry to identify a lead compound and take it forward for further development. Adam Todd, Roz Anderson and Paul W. Groundwater describe the methods used to identify and characterise a target for structured drug design and illustrate how pharmacists can play an important role in this process
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Antivirals no longer being used to prevent spread of swine flu
2 Jul 09 | 17.31 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Antivirals will no longer be used to prevent the spread of swine influenza in the UK as of today (2 July 2009) more >
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