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Campaign seeks to recruit 300 drugs counsellors
The government has launched a national advertising campaign to recruit an additional 300 drugs counsellors as part of its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain . The two-week campaign will aim to recruit workers for the prison, probation and police services, voluntary sector and local authorities. The ...
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Pharmacists set up NHS Direct support network
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has established an NHS Direct pharmacy support network to help pharmacists involved with the telephone helpline. Christine Gray, head of practice at the society, said pharmacists had not been 'sufficiently involved' with NHS Direct as it launched, but 'all NHS Direct sites should ...
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Pharmaceutical industry puts case for medicines
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has issued a report arguing that the government will need the help of modern medicines to meet its targets set out in the Saving Lives white paper. Director general Dr Trevor Jones said it was surprising that the government had not identified a ...
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Schizophenia Drugs
Exciting claims about what 'atypical' antipsychotic drugs can do are marred by the poor quality of much of the research evidence, say Paul Wilson, Simon Gilbody and Anne-Marie Bagnall
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Short Cuts: Pharmacists move to improve drug supplies
The government has lowered the trigger point at which stocks of generic drugs are considered so low that pharmacists can supply branded alternatives instead. The 'category D' listing previously came into operation when there was less than four weeks' supply. But in an attempt to combat a shortage of generic ...
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In Brief: Reporting adverse reactions to drugs
The 'yellow card' scheme for reporting adverse reactions to drugs to the Medicines Control Agency has been extended to community pharmacists. Junior health minister Lord Hunt said pilot projects had shown that reports submitted by community pharmacists were as good as those submitted by GPs and the extension would strengthen ...
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In Brief: Head for your Pharmacy campaign
Doctor Patient Partnership is to distribute a million leaflets about pharmacists' services in a Head for your Pharmacy campaign. It will encourage people to consult pharmacists about minor ailments and explore how GPs and pharmacists can work together.
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In Brief: Call for research into the interaction of CS spray with antipsychotic drugs
Mental health charity Mind has backed a Police Complaints Authority call for research into the interaction of CS spray with antipsychotic drugs. The PCA's annual report also urges improved mental health training and research into any 'causal connection' between CS spray and death due to positional asphyxia.
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Drugs IT man for top NHS job
A pharmaceutical industry IT professional has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Information Authority.
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Mental health shake-up after violence and drugs incidents
Birmingham health authority has agreed to spend £350,000 reorganising mental health wards at a local psychiatric hospital after incidents of violence and drug- taking by patients.