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HSJ AwardsHSJ Value Awards 2020: Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award
Winner The Great North Children’s Hospital, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust: The Kidzmed project - teaching children to swallow tablet medication The Kidzmed project was a quality improvement project to teach children and young people how to take tablet medication. Tablets are safer, more convenient and cheaper than ...
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HSJ PartnersWe need to hear the voices of healthcare professionals on how we change the ABPI Code of Practice
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry is consulting on its proposed Code of Practice for 2021, which supports industry to operate in a professional, ethical and transparent manner. ABPI president Haseeb Ahmad explains how healthcare professionals come into contact with the Code, so it is important to contribute their ...
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NewsExclusive: Government delay could see people miss out on vaccines
Pharmacies are warning people are at risk of not getting the flu jab unless an urgent decision is made over the winter vaccination programme.
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NewsNHS warned it ‘will not be forgiven’ if it fails to act on Cumberlege report
The government and healthcare system “will not be forgiven” if they fail to act on a major report which reveals “institutional” resistance in the NHS to patient safety concerns, its authors warned today.
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All doctors’ financial interests must be published
A government review says the financial interests of all doctors should be published on the General Medical Council’s register, due to concerns around potential conflicts of interest.
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NewsThe NHS is failing ‘all those it was set up to serve’, concludes government review
The NHS has “either lost sight of the interests of all those it was set up to serve or does not know how best to do this”, a major government-commissioned review has concluded.
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NewsWebinar: how covid sparked unprecedented collaboration between the NHS and industry
The need to respond at scale and pace to the coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented collaboration between the NHS and the pharmaceutical and medical devices sector.
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NewsGovernment spent at least £5m on drug championed by Trump
The Department for Health and Social Care paid at least £3.15m on a bulk order of hydroxychloroquine tablets in April for clinical trials, after reportedly spending £2m on the drug in March.
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HSJ KnowledgeGenomics and precision medicine in oncology
At an HSJ and Bayer roundtable experts discussed how NHS leaders can get to grips with genomics and precision medicine – and how we can ensure that every oncology patient who will benefit will have access to these developing technologies
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NewsNHS could have ‘answers’ on new covid treatments ‘before end of June’
The first results of clinical trials into therapeutic drugs used to treat covid-19 patients could be available before the end of June, according to an NHS letter.
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HSJ PartnersCovid-19: using digital services and data to fight the pandemic
Coronavirus presents the biggest challenge to the NHS in its 70-year history. Written by As the UK’s leading provider of connected healthcare software and systems – supporting 10,000 healthcare organisations – EMIS Group has a critical role to play. In England alone, our systems support 4,000 GP practices, ...
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HSJ InteractiveTreating epileptic children with a ketogenic diet
An HSJ and Nutricia immersive feature explores the potential of ketogenic diets in reducing seizures in epileptic children
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NewsGovernment bans parallel export of 80 drugs
The government has banned the parallel export of more than 80 drugs to protect the national supply of key medicines.
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NewsNICE finds new chief to replace retiring founder
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s deputy chief executive will replace founding CEO Sir Andrew Dillon, after he steps down this month.
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NewsEx-Ministry of Sound MD appointed health minister
The government has appointed a health minister in the Lords, who will lead on innovation and life sciences.
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NewsHSJ Partnership Award winners announced
LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare and the Perinatal Institute were among the winners at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2020.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Partnership Awards 2020: Most Effective Contribution to Clinical Redesign
WINNER: LloydsPharmacy Healthcare Centre: LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare
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NewsTrusts told not to stockpile amid coronavirus supply fears
The Department of Health and Social Care has told trusts not to stockpile products, amid growing concern over the impact of novel coronavirus on medical supplies.
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NewsCancer drugs unit’s water contaminated by legionella
Legionella and pseudomonas were found in water meant for hand washing in a unit where medicines for cancer patients were prepared, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalTrust in £2m legal battle with pharma company
A specialist trust is being sued for nearly £2m by a Luxembourgian pharmaceutical company over allegations of wrongdoing by the provider’s subsidiary company, HSJ can reveal.