 From pharmacists helping with early diagnosis to three-dimensional images of tissue samples, positive steps are being taken to cut the rates of cancer, writes Isobel Smith |
 From raising money for charity to going up against the NHS, pharmacy is certainly making the headlines today, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest From care homes to drug allocation, it appears the quality of health services may not be living up to standards, finds Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest Yet more controversy for the health service, with routine operation waiting times not being the only thing on the rise, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest As latest research points towards improved breast cancer treatment, writes Isobel Smith, patient care still needs to be enhanced in other areas |
 As the NHS attempts to save millions by 2015, writes Isobel Smith, demand doesn’t show any sign of easing |
 Daily digest It’s not surprising that few of us actually know what is good for us and what isn’t, writes Isobel Smith, but today’s round is here to help |
 Daily digest From obesity to Parkinson's disease, attempts to tackle some of Britain's biggest health issues continue, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest From tobacco to make-up, there are a vast number of things we shouldn’t be exposing ourselves to, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest Gone are the days when we had to make excuses for lying in bed, writes Isobel Smith, as the nationals report on the health risks associated with sleep deprivation |
 Daily digest Keeping in shape and warding off wrinkles are a part of life, writes Isobel Smith, but putting yourself in danger in the process isn’t |
 Daily digest Brits are known for being a little lazy, but writes Isobel Smith , when it comes to something as important as health, managing a condition isn’t something to be taken lightly |
 Daily digest With all the medical aids available today you would have thought it’d be easier than ever to become a parent, but with people coming up against challenges such as infertility and womb cancer that doesn’t seem to be the case, writes Isobel Smith |
 As the NHS attempts to save millions of pounds by 2015, pharmacy services might be more effective than first thought at contributing to its savings effort, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest From NHS reforms to an increase in the prescription charge, change is the theme of today’s round up, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digestFrom NHS savings to swine flu vaccination fears, strains on Britain’s healthcare system continue to grow, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest From NHS reforms to the PIP breast implant scandal, the National Health Service once again finds itself in the spotlight, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest With mixed messages about healthy eating and sunbathing leaving us Brits rather confused, Isobel Smith looks to dispel a few myths |
 Daily digest Health news over the past couple of weeks has focused primarily on elderly care and today appears no different, with elderly dementia and cancer patients in the spotlight, writes Isobel Smith |
 Despite five o'clock being on the horizon, minimum alcohol unit prices and a clock change might not get you in the mood for the weekend, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest The NHS reforms have caused a great deal of stress, but with rising cigarette tax and alcohol a contributing factor to rising liver disease, the only safe thing to do is take some deep breaths, Isobel Smith writes |
 Daily digest As NHS reforms bludgeon their way through parliament, aspirin could provide new hope for the battle against cancer. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest Elderly patients haven’t had it easy the past few months and things don’t seem to be improving, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest Heading for the GP is the natural reaction for those who fall ill, but our pill popping habit could be costing the NHS and arm and a leg, writes Philip Crilly |
 Daily digest With Britain in danger of becoming a nation of pill poppers and an antibiotic resistance crisis in our midst, you might want to consider whether you really need to take paracetamol for that headache, writes Isobel Smith |
 Daily digest Being a kid isn’t what it used it to be, writes Isobel Smith. From obesity to heavy rucksacks it seems there are a million and one things to worry about |
 Unsurprisingly today’s nationals are all full of doom and gloom, writes Isobel Smith, from diets to elderly care it seems there isn’t a whole lot left to look forward to |
 While Wales is getting a boost to pharma research, the cancer drug keeping the Lockerbie bomber alive is denied to Scottish patients. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest Improving nursing standards in school and hospitals is on the agenda today, along with GPs defiance to visit nursing homes. Isobel Smith reports |
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 Daily digest Hope for alzheimer’s, heart failure and kidney transplant patients in today’s round up. Isobel Smith reports |
 Varying health care services are the focus of today’s round up as a number of groups from diabetics to dementia patients suffer at the hands of a postcode lottery. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest It seems there's a pill for everything these days, writes Niall Hunt , but are they always necessary? |
 Daily digest Despite fervent opposition, the NHS reforms seem inevitable, writes Niall Hunt. So here are the latest things to expect when Andrew Lansley finally gets his way. |
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Daily digest The guidance highlights the vital role community pharmacy plays in the early detection of cancer and NHS admits negligence after two transplant patients received cancerous kidneys. Isobel Smith reports |
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Daily digest GP and pharmacist representatives are creating an enhanced partnership between the two professions to improve patient care and the MHRA warns people not to use Paiyouji Plus because of potential side effects. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest The medicines watchdog has warned that changes to the packaging of Epistatus could result in an overdose; and pregnancy figures in under-18s fell 9.5 per cent between 2009 and 2010. Isobel Smith reports |
 Sleeping pills have been linked with a higher risk of death and what common medicines are actually vegetarian? Isobel Smith reports |
 Patients' lives are being put at risks because of medicines exportation and GlaxoSmithKline accuses ministers of delaying cancer treatments to save money. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest Some antipsychotics may increase the risk of death in patients with dementia and cancer patients face longer referral wait dependent on age, sex and ethnicity. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest Prescription charges in England are set to increase by 25 pence; and the radio station will be broadcast to Alliance Healthcare's 3,500 service centre employees. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest GPs could be prescribing apps to help patients manage conditions; and Nice have revised its guidance on tocilizumab after manufacturers lowered the drug’s price. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest An estimated 1.3 million diabetic patients miss out on health checks; and supply chain problems cause GPs to prescribe more expensive vitamin D supplements. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest Medical organisations opposing the NHS reforms have been excluded from talks; and doctors warn that failure to change alcohol laws could lead to 210,000 preventable deaths. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest More than 150 paediatricians sign a letter calling for the government to scrap its NHS reforms; and a roofer sues a London NHS trust after claiming they failed spot evidence that he had cancer of the penis. Isobel Smith reports. |
 Daily digest GPhC chief executive Duncan Rudkin said the guidance was developed following feedback from pharmacists; and flu fears sparked after vaccination rates among pregnant women fall 11 percentage points on last year. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest An academic claims that charges will be introduced to free treatments; and Mencap blames the deaths of 74 disabled people on inadequate care. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest England’s chief pharmaceutical officer speaks out about dispensing errors at the 2012 Sigma conference in Thailand and Co-op Pharmacy staff raise more than £7 million for charity. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest As the GPhC take the first step to modernise pharmacy, it seems NHS modernisation will happen, one way or another. Isobel Smith reports |
 Daily digest The cost of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, drug recalls and NHS reforms all hit the headlines today. Isobel Smith reports |
 Practice The government has demanded that healthcare regulators, including the GPhC, tighten up their procedures for breaches of professional standards this week, in its response to the Francis report. |
 Politics Welsh pharmacy leaders have welcomed the appointment of health minister Mark Drakeford, but have warned that he must stand by his proposals to make the most out of community pharmacy. |
 Practice The government has reiterated its pledge to consider decriminalising dispensing errors but would not be drawn on a timeframe, after APPG vice chair Oliver Colvile (pictured) grilled the health secretary in parliament. |
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 Practice The pharmacy degree should have more emphasis on clinical skills, leadership and business, say respondents to C+D's education survey conducted ahead of the C+D Senate on education on Thursday |
 Clinical The MHRA has warned the public against using the potentially fatal herbal remedy Zheng Tian Wan, containing banned ingredient aconite, after discovering a herbal practitioner had given it to a patient. |
 Practice Lloydspharmacy's Lifenote system links with a tablet device to record information such as patients activity levels and when they take their medicines |
 Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies |
 Practice Pharmacy software manufacturer Rx Systems has developed medicines-management software that allows pharmacists to use EPS to view patients’ repeat medication that is held on the GP’s system. |
 Practice It is crucial that independent contractors start gearing up for paperless prescriptions now, as GPs have been given the authority to set their own go-live date for the EPS, pharmacy trade body Numark has warned. |
 Practice PSNC was forced to rethink the funding of its PharmOutcomes database because of a revolt by some contractors who refused to pay for the "unproven software", C+D has learned. |
 Practice Jeremy Hunt has thrown down the gauntlet to NHS officials to create the "most modern digital health service in the world" and save £4.4 billion annually by becoming paperless in the next five years. |
 Public health Pharmacists are forced to hand deliver patient information to GPs because they don’t have secure email, Audit Scotland has highlighted, warning that a lack of information sharing could undermine the drive to reduce health inequalities. |
 Practice Pharmacy2U now offers £25 online general consultations, in which patients submit information electronically and are then emailed a response from the Pharmacy2U doctor and sent a prescription through the post. |
 People Scottish pharmacists will be able to test their patient skills on a family of avatars, through a training tool developed for the delivery of the chronic medication service. |
 IT Zone Proposed regulations to internet pharmacies, which that include making internet pharmacies legally obliged to display an EU logo, do not go far enough according to Pharmacy2U managing director Daniel Lee. |
 Practice IPF chairman Fin McCaul (pictured) has warned that EPS is redistributing a mass of work from GP practices to pharmacies without any reward and complained that changes to the NHS were increasing the burden on pharmacy. |
 Martindale Pharma has launched two licensed oral suspensions that it says are a safe and cost-effective way to treat epilepsy. The manufacturer launched Tapclob 5mg/5ml and 10mg/5ml oral... |
 GlaxoSmithKline has launched a £1.3 million TV campaign to promote its Pronamel toothpaste range. The TV advertisement is running for three weeks from this week and features a testimonial from a... |
 Bakery company Warburtons has added bran crackers to its range of gluten-free foods on prescription. The 150g boxes contain six portions of four crackers and are available from Alliance and... |
 Actavis has started distributing nine Arrow Generics products, which are available on the April NHS price list. The generics include amiodarone 100mg and 200mg, azathioprine 50mg,... |
 Omega Pharma has launched a £2 million advertising campaign to raise awareness of the different options for hayfever and promote its brands Prevalin and Beconase. The TV campaign started... |
 Clearblue has launched an ovulation test that identifies the four best days for a woman to get pregnant, claiming to offer two more days than any other test on the market. The Clearblue... |
 Manufacturer Anglian Pharma has launched its newly packaged denture product Permasoft into pharmacies. The temporary denture lining, which was previously only available online, had... |
 Manufacturer Dexcel Pharma has launched generic medication montelukast to treat patients with mild to moderate persistent asthma. The prescription-only medication, which launched on day... |
 Trueline has cut the price of its pregnancy testing kits by more than half and launched new services to pharmacies in a bid to make the brand a "major player in the UK". On March 1 the... |
 Trifluoperazine 5mg/5ml oral solution is still in stock, Rosemont Pharmaceuticals has confirmed, despite shortages in supply of the tablets. Rosemont said it continued to have "robust... |
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Practice The pharmacy degree should have more emphasis on clinical skills, leadership and business, say respondents to C+D's education survey conducted ahead of the C+D Senate on education on Thursday |
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Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies |
 Business The NPA has teamed up with online pharmacy TheHealthcounter.com to offer their independent members a range of online services, from click and collect to home delivery |
 The rise in Alliance Boots profits could mask underlying problems in the business, Planet Retail senior retail analyst Stephen Springham has warned. |
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Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies |
 Fitness to practise Pharmacy technician Allison Markham, registration number 5003792, has been suspended from the professional register for a year for committing benefit fraud amounting to more than £11,000 |
 Practice The government is spending £260 million on electronic prescribing to ensure prescriptions can be sent directly from doctors to hospital pharmacies, it announced today (May 17). |
 Practice Pharmacy leaders have defended the profession against a Which? consumer report that found that two in five pharmacies are offering unsatisfactory advice on medicines. |
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Business The potential benefits of the NPA's click and collect online service have split contractors, who cannot agree whether the scheme would attract new customers to their pharmacies |
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Senate Fear of failing the registration exam is hampering pharmacy students’ ability to learn professional and practical skills during the pre-reg year, C+D Senators have warned. |
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Business The NPA has teamed up with online pharmacy TheHealthcounter.com to offer their independent members a range of online services, from click and collect to home delivery |
 Business Locum pharmacists have accused independent chain Day Lewis of driving a rates war with an online booking system that asks them for their “potential price”. |
 Business Lloydspharmacy's parent company has reported a 0.9 per cent drop in earnings from its pharmacy division for the first quarter of 2013, but has maintained it is seeing “positive operational development” in its UK pharmacy business. |
 Practice A PCT-commissioned scheme saw the Isle of Wight’s influenza vaccination rate climb by nearly 10 per cent, with particular success in the over-65 age group |
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Practice Lloydspharmacy's Lifenote system links with a tablet device to record information such as patients activity levels and when they take their medicines |
 Business Celesio UK chief Cormac Tobin (pictured) said he couldn't see any long-term benefits in selling food, claiming Boots was trying to be “a lot of things to a lot of people”, while Lloydspharmacy focused on healthcare. |
 Business Celesio has hailed its 4.5 per cent rise in profits as a strengthening of its “competitive position” and attributed it to an organisational shake-up in 2011 that included UK redundancies. |
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Martindale Pharma has launched two licensed oral suspensions that it says are a safe and cost-effective way to treat epilepsy. The manufacturer launched Tapclob 5mg/5ml and 10mg/5ml oral... |
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The rise in Alliance Boots profits could mask underlying problems in the business, Planet Retail senior retail analyst Stephen Springham has warned. |
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GlaxoSmithKline has launched a £1.3 million TV campaign to promote its Pronamel toothpaste range. The TV advertisement is running for three weeks from this week and features a testimonial from a... |
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Bakery company Warburtons has added bran crackers to its range of gluten-free foods on prescription. The 150g boxes contain six portions of four crackers and are available from Alliance and... |
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Actavis has started distributing nine Arrow Generics products, which are available on the April NHS price list. The generics include amiodarone 100mg and 200mg, azathioprine 50mg,... |
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Omega Pharma has launched a £2 million advertising campaign to raise awareness of the different options for hayfever and promote its brands Prevalin and Beconase. The TV campaign started... |
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Business Celesio UK chief Cormac Tobin (pictured) said he couldn't see any long-term benefits in selling food, claiming Boots was trying to be “a lot of things to a lot of people”, while Lloydspharmacy focused on healthcare. |
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Clearblue has launched an ovulation test that identifies the four best days for a woman to get pregnant, claiming to offer two more days than any other test on the market. The Clearblue... |
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Manufacturer Anglian Pharma has launched its newly packaged denture product Permasoft into pharmacies. The temporary denture lining, which was previously only available online, had... |
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Manufacturer Dexcel Pharma has launched generic medication montelukast to treat patients with mild to moderate persistent asthma. The prescription-only medication, which launched on day... |
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