Business & industry

Barcode system for prescriptions now live throughout pharmacies in Wales

2 Nov 11 | 16.28 | Wales

Barcodes are now being used to scan in prescriptions in all 708 community pharmacies in Wales, the NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) has announced
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Better education needed on vitamin D deficiency

28 Oct 11 | 15.41 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Pharmacists are among those requiring better education about vitamin D deficiency, according to a panel of experts at a parliamentary briefing...
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Details of pre-2007 research involving children now available

14 Oct 11 | 16.42 | EU

Details of research involving children and completed before 2007 — when rules came into force to improve the availability of information about medicines use in children — are now available on a European Medicines Agency database
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Lipitor patent infringement case settled in Pfizer’s favour

10 Oct 11 | 12.20 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Pfizer has settled its patent-infringement case against a number of wholesalers over sale of Teva’s generic form of Lipitor in the UK...
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Industry-academia partnerships launched to drive clinical research

6 Oct 11 | 16.50 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Two national research collaborations between the pharmaceutical industry and academic researchers, in the areas of inflammatory joint and respiratory disease, were announced today by the Department of Health
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Pharmacists’ Dragons’ Den failure down to "political point-scoring"

4 Oct 11 | 15.18 | England Scotland Wales

Investors from the popular television series "Dragons’ Den" have been accused of political point-scoring by a pharmacist participant who was... more >
Pharmacy practice in Hong Kong

3 Oct 11 | 15.05 | International

Want to make a move to Asia? How about Hong Kong? In this article, Phoebe Chan provides information on how you can register as a pharmacist in Hong Kong and describes what pharmacy practice is like there more >
Pharmacists to enter “Dragon’s Den”

28 Sep 11 | 14.57 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

A pharmacist entrepreneur and pharmacy academic will be entering television’s “Dragon’s Den” next week hoping to win backing for a pharmacy business model aimed at saving the NHS money through cutting prescribing costs
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Some locum pharmacists will get same working rights as permanent staff

26 Sep 11 | 16.15 | EU

Locum pharmacists employed for a continuous 12-week period will be entitled to the same pay and working rights...
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What three young pharmacists believe they gain from membership of the Society

23 Sep 11 | 11.20 | England Scotland Wales

Following the decision by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to establish associate membership for preregistration trainee pharmacists, Jeff Mills asked three young pharmacists about their careers so far and what membership of the Society during their preregistration year meant to them more >