All Pharma articles – Page 39
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News
Prescriptions rise but costs fall, NHS Information Centre data reveals
The number of prescriptions handed out to people suffering from allergies, diabetes and obesity increased in a year, although overall costs fell, new figures from the NHS Information Centre reveal.
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News
Pharmacists argue for national contract to pay for flu pandemic work
Pharmacists have warned the lack of a standard contract to pay them for taking on extra work during the flu pandemic could hinder the national response to the outbreak. Payments for community pharmacists are being determined through 86 separate local negotiations.
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Sainsbury's refuses to act as antiviral collection point
Primary care trusts will not be able to include any of Sainsbury’s 230 in-store pharmacies in their local plans to set up antiviral collection points.
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Swine flu phone service goes live
A telephone and internet service that aims to speed up access to drugs for thousands of people infected with swine flu goes live today.
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Ian Kennedy report looks at how NICE values innovation
The benefits to the NHS of innovative health technologies are being weighed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence after a study by Sir Ian Kennedy.
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HSJ Knowledge
Powerful chemistry: PCTs under fire for not aiding pharmacy growth
Pharmacists have the potential to deliver a far wider range of services than at present - but the opportunity will be missed if primary care trusts do not act, writes Graham Clews
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Leader
Patients don't care who provides GP services as long as they work
Why does the public have to endure antiquated GP services?
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News
Fast track drugs fears for NHS budget
Unregulated pharmaceuticals may be allowed to inflate the NHS drugs bill for little benefit to patients according to independent health policy analyst Roy Lilley.
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CMO reassures over supplies of Tamiflu
The government’s chief medical officer has said that Britain has enough Tamiflu after it was revealed that the number of new swine flu cases could hit 100,000 per day.
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Government abandons swine flu containment efforts
The prevalence of swine flu in some parts of the country means that the government is abandoning attempts to contain the virus and is instead moving towards a policy of outbreak management.
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Comment
Sophia Christie on NICE and lifesaving myths
Last year, journalist Adam Wishart approached me about taking part in a television documentary, The Price of Life, which aired on BBC2 last week.
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NHS prescription review delayed until autumn
The health minister has said a delayed review into the costs of prescriptions will be published in the autumn.
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Comment
Philip DaSilva on preparing for a pandemic
Last week the WHO declared a flu pandemic. Preparedness must now become a top priority for boards rather than treating it as part of the annual winter planning routine
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Calls for NHS to fund costly drugs 'blinkered', says NICE
A senior member of the UK’s drugs watchdog has labelled people who demand expensive drugs on the NHS as “blinkered”.
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Fears grow over flu pandemic stockpiles
Concerns are growing over whether primary care trusts will be able to avoid running out of flu pandemic equipment amid confusion over who should be stockpiling supplies.
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NHS nets huge drugs saving
The NHS has saved nearly £400m in the space of a year through more cost effective prescribing.
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MPs warn NICE over cancer drug 'inequities'
MPs have attacked as “inequitable and inefficient” the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to allow less cost efficient drugs to be given to people at the end of their lives.
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Swine flu stockpiles could compromise NHS, pharmacists warned
The Department of Health has warned pharmacists not to stockpile swine flu medicines because this could undermine the NHS’s ability to cope with a pandemic.
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Swine flu fears increase as WHO ups alert level for second time
The World Health Organisation has raised its pandemic flu alert level for the second time in the space of a week, increasing fears that a global outbreak is inevitable.
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Comment
Media Watch: swine flu
The Department of Health was quick to offer reassurance at the start of this week after warnings of a pandemic of a new killer flu virus.