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Pharmacy in Practice

EDX/20/1154
Date of prep: December 2020

Prescribing information and
adverse events reporting

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Lack of national pharmacy alert system criticised in tragic opiate case

There had been occasions when this nurse had been prescribed too much medication & also periods when she had requested repeat prescriptions early.

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Pharmacy events

📅 Live Q&A: Professor Anna Murphy: Respiratory pharmacy insights

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Insight

Time to embrace controlled drug technology

If there is one thing we have all come to embrace during this pandemic, it is the fact that we all must utilise technology more in our everyday lives.

Why has a pharmacist never contributed to the daily briefings?

Despite the importance of medicines and vaccines during this pandemic, pharmacist voices have not cut through when it comes to the public discourse.

Is community pharmacy missing a trick with branded dispensing?

The Drug Tariff in England and Wales lists most medicines which can be prescribed and dispensed against an NHS Prescription .

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Featured pharmacy news

Why do NHS reorganisations continually ignore community pharmacy?

Another NHS reorganisation will come & go without making any of the necessary changes to community pharmacy contracting, funding, structure or integration.

Coroner highlights inability to access GP records

The inquest concluded with a narrative conclusion to the effect that Miss Hogan died as a consequence of complications of deep vein thrombosis.

Lockdown methadone dispensing incident ‘directly contributed to death’

It is therefore probable, that due to a lack of a measuring jug, Mr MF guessed his first dose from the larger methadone bottles with tragic consequences.

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Alerts

🔔 Class 3 Medicines Recall: SyriMed, Clonidine hydrochloride 50micrograms/5ml Oral Solution

🔔 Class 2 Medicines Recall: Eaststone Limited, MidaBuc – Midazolam (as HCL) 10mg/mL Oromucosal Solution

🔔 Class 4 Medicines Defect Information, AmBisome Liposomal 50 mg Powder for dispersion for infusion

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UK pharmacy news

Urgent clarification required about registration assessment

The RPS is seeking urgent clarification from the GPhC following concerns raised about booking arrangements for the upcoming registration assessment. 

RPS criticise English prescription charge increase

The prescription charges in England will rise to £9.35 from 1st April. and the the RPS has commented that this is ‘completely unacceptable’.

NHS Scotland pay rise described as ‘disappointing’

NHS staff unions say they are ‘disappointed’ and ‘angry’ the Scottish government is pressing on with a pay rise for staff that was previously rejected.

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Amazon, digital dentistry and how community pharmacies fit

Instant dentist is an innovative business that will help pharmacies extend their digital impact but also deliver preventative dental care to people.

Vision, politics, pharmacy clubs, elitism, free services and where community pharmacy goes next

Ian Strachan is a community pharmacy owner contractor. He owns a number of pharmacies in England. He was Chair of the NPA between 2014 to 2018.

What can we learn from this tragic fatal warfarin error?

The report, published by HSIB, sets out a case where a medication error with warfarin contributed to the death of a 79-year-old man.

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