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Prescription charge is to rise to £8.20
The government has announced an increase to the NHS prescription charge of 15 pence, to £8.20 per prescription item. This change will come into effect from 1st April 2015. The cost of prescription pre-payment certificates (PPCs) has remained the same for...
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Sepsis – UTIs – Bladder Retention – Medication Errors
Better recognition of conditions such as sepsis and bladder retention would save millions of pounds a year in antibiotics and beds being blocked in A&E and urology wards. The reduction in preventative medication errors associated with the treatment pre-admission...
CQC and the Storage of Medicines
The Care Quality Commission has been auditing doctor surgeries, care homes and hospitals and often they are finding that improper storage of medicines have the potential to compromise the quality of said medicines and patient safety. Last year the Welsh Elderly care...
The Medical Innovations Bill
Cancer patients are now able to be prescribed investigative drugs if they are terminally ill. Currently this is the only disease to be included, but this may change in the future. More and more terminal patients choose to be treated at home. What will this mean for...
Essential or not Essential?
What do you think? Do you want the Medicines Use Review (MURs) and New Medicine Service (NMS) to become essential services? There is a view that the government may reduce fee to deliver the services over time if they are. The pharmacies with no consultation room may...
Distance Selling Pharmacy Workshop “DSP“
What you must do must provide the full range of essential services during opening hours to all persons in England presenting prescriptions; cannot provide essential services face to face; must have a responsible pharmacist in charge of the business at the premises...
Scared!?!
In the next few lines I am probably going to show myself up as a bit of a chicken, and certainly demonstrate a dubious taste in ‘music’. I have been reminded over the last couple of days of a ‘song’ (if you have heard it you will know why I have written it as ‘song’)...
Logistic Company GDP trained?
Are the drivers of your logistics company GDP trained if the deliver medicines for you to your customers or to another wholesaler? What would you train them in and why? We recently were asked to deliver training for these important team members. Where did we start? We...
Responsible Person Challenges
The roles and responsibilities of the RP is becoming tougher, the roles can be delegated but not the responsibility thus the activities need to be delegated in a very clear and concise way to the team member who is tasked with carrying out the role. The RP must...
Pfizer, Lipitor and the business of big Pharma
The saga continues here in Australia where the Australian Competitor and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has logged an appeal to the Federal Court over their anti-competitive case against Pfizer. This all stems back to early 2012 as the patent for Lipitor, a large market...
Can community pharmacy, GPs and nurses handle the treatment of Hep C?
It was announced this week that Hepatitis Australia has recommended to the Government to allow community based prescribing and dispensing of Hepatitis C medications. This would mirror the current treatment for people living with HIV and would move these patients into...