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Calling All Care Quality Commission (CQC) providers
Are you a Care Quality Commission (CQC) provider? Are you aware the training requirements for your staff members have changed?
Face to face training more Benefits than you might think
You work in different ways to others, just the same as I do. However, for me (and maybe you) it just works when I learn face to face.
The General Pharmaceutical Council to Reinstate full CPD revalidation
The Government recently announced that the emergency powers that were put in place by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to help with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be removed later this year.
Medical Devices – Consultation on the future regulation of medical devices in the United Kingdom
Following the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), the government identified a unique opportunity to improve how medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) are regulated in the United Kingdom.
Probiotics and mental health
Probiotics are live bacteria that can colonise the gastrointestinal tract. Probiotic bacteria are often called ‘healthy bacteria’.
Antibiotic Dependence and how vaccines help
Antibiotic Dependence and how vaccines help, vaccines are a prophylactic treatment, meaning they must be administered before a viral or bacterial infection.
Antimicrobial surfaces – Work Smarter not Harder
Antimicrobial surfaces – Work Smarter not Harder, As we slowly come out of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is hard to forget slogans such as ‘Hands, Face, Space’.
Fitness to Practice – 183 linked to 83 Online Pharmacies
183 Fitness to Practices linked to 83 Online Pharmacies – It worrying to see these numbers, isn’t it?
COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedure
COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedure for NHS staff now implemented as NHS England release guidance.
Sodium Valproate guidance, Pharmacists could face negligence
Sodium Valproate guidance – The Sunday Times published in Aril that there are investigations into the prescribing of sodium valporate to pregnant woman.
Serious Shortage Protocols now in place
Serious Shortage Protocols for Hormone Replacement Therapy medicines, issued by The Department of Health and Social Care.
Quorum sensing and antibiotic resistance
Quorum sensing is a communication pathway found in high-density bacterial colonies, such as in biofilms. Quorum sensing is named after a quorum, the minimum number of people required to hold a meeting or reach a decision. It is so named because it functions by...