All Pharma articles – Page 32
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NewsMPs to hear criticism of MS care
Multiple sclerosis patients could be driven to suicide by a lack of access to treatment, a campaigner will tell MPs today.
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HSJ KnowledgeKeeping e-prescribing on track and on budget for improved patient services
After a number of years of slow uptake, the past six months have seen a new energy around e-prescribing in the UK - but it now needs to be shown to make a difference to avoid being axed in budget cuts. Noemalife UK’s managing director Robyn Tolley outlines seven key ...
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NewsOsborne backs Hutton on pensions but promises 'no cherry picking'
Chancellor George Osborne has accepted Lord Hutton’s recommendations on public sector pensions as a “basis for consultation” with unions.
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HSJ KnowledgeSimulation Lab: What if I introduced oral chemotherapy?
Implementing new services is a difficult task as managers need to ensure high quality patient outcomes as well as keeping the cost of services to a minimum. This simulation allows you to see the impact of introducing oral chemotherapy into the breast cancer pathway. Alter the uptake of oral chemotherapy ...
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NHS Norfolk launches drive to cut medicine wastage
FINANCE: The primary care trust has launched a new campaign to try and reduce the number wasted medication in the country.
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Pharmacists ordering scripts without patient consent in Oldham
PERFORMANCE: The primary care trust has discovered that some pharmacies on its patch have been ordering repeat prescriptions on behalf of patients without their informed consent.
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NHS West Sussex has lower rate of drug dispensing
PERFORMANCE: NHS West Sussex has published a pharmaceutical needs assessment showing it is behind the rest of the country on dispensing levels.
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Staffordshire PCTs appoint chair of combined provider arm
WORKFORCE: Three primary care trusts in Staffordshire have announced that a vice president of AstraZeneca has been appointed as the interim chair for its provider arm.
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CommentCan value-based drug pricing deliver a 'postcode lottery' alternative?
Value-based drug pricing is meant to reduce the postcode lottery but could end up achieving the opposite.
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NHS Eastern and Coastal reports popularity of 100 hours pharmacies
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: The primary care trust has published a pharmaceutical needs assessment in which it signals its intention to increase the number of “100 hour pharmacy contracts” it commissions.
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NewsNHS medical trials among best in Europe
A programme in the North West which aimed to show the NHS could be a first class environment for commercial pharmaceutical research has reported results matching the best in Europe.
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NewsThousands of jobs to go as leading R&D centre announces closure
The government’s ambition for the UK and the NHS to lead the world in encouraging pharmaceutical innovation was dealt a blow with the announcement that a leading research and development facility is to close.
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NewsGovernment 'may take over flu vaccine ordering'
GPs could be forced to hand over control of ordering flu vaccine after complaints about this year’s programme, the government’s director of immunisation has suggested.
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NewsReport: chronic pain sufferers get poor advice
The government must take action to ease the suffering of people with long-term pain, according to a report from the Patients Association.
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NewsPM defiant over flu jab shortage
David Cameron has warned that lessons must be learned from Britain’s recent flu vaccine shortage as the country faces “significant outbreaks” for years to come.
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NewsLocal flu vaccine shortages revealed
The government has admitted some parts of the country were suffering shortages of flu vaccines as it prepared to reveal the latest death toll from the winter outbreak.
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NewsQuitters to sign contracts in smoking cessation scheme
The government is looking at a wide range of schemes to “nudge” people into adopting healthier lifestyles.
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NewsHealth and wellbeing boards are given new scrutiny role
Local authorities will be required by law to create health and wellbeing boards, the government has announced.
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NewsValue based pricing could cost the NHS more
The planned new value based pricing system for approving drugs to be funded by the NHS could end up costing the NHS more, the Department of Health’s own impact assessment states.
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NewsNHS 'wasting' millions on expensive insulin
Prescribing an expensive form of insulin against NICE guidance is causing the NHS to waste tens of millions of pounds every year, it has been revealed.