Northern Ireland

Daily Mail slates pharmacy

16 Oct 08 | 14.34 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Another “secret shopper” investigation into the quality of clinical advice offered by pharmacy staff has criticised the service more >
NHS trusts circumventing DH’s top-up restrictions

15 Oct 08 | 16.42 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Some 30 NHS trusts across the UK are getting around government restrictions that prevent patients topping up their care and which do not allow the purchase of expensive drugs that have been deemed too costly to be routinely available through the NHS
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Broadcast media dropped from EU medicines information plans

14 Oct 08 | 14.26 | England EU Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Controversial proposals by the European Commission to allow pharmaceutical companies to publicise information about prescription-only medicines on television and radio programmes may have been dropped
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PJ letters (11 October 2008)

10 Oct 08 | 23.32 | England EU International Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Letters published in the 11 October 2008 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal

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New advice source for mental health patients and their carers

10 Oct 08 | 16.36 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

An independent website offering medicines advice for mental health patients has been launched at the House of Commons
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CHRE dismisses Government concern

10 Oct 08 | 16.35 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Government concerns about the administrative burden on health professionals when they join their professional register and start their first job are unfounded
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New drug for HAE launched

9 Oct 08 | 15.49 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Icatibant, a new drug for the symptomatic treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adults, is now available from Shire
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Etravirine launched for treatment experienced HIV-infected patients

9 Oct 08 | 15.25 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Antiretroviral-experienced adults with HIV-1 can now add a new antiretroviral to their therapy regimen
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Pharmacists could face fines under CHRE proposals

8 Oct 08 | 18.56 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals could face fines if they are found unfit to practise as part of proposals to standardise the punitive sanctions available to all regulatory bodies
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Patients invited to walk to health by pharmacists in Norfolk initiative

8 Oct 08 | 17.41 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales

Community pharmacists have persuaded more than 1,500 patients to take up sport in a Norfolk-wide healthy lifestyles initiative that could be rolled out to the rest of the UK
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