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ain Category: Pharmacy / Pharmacist A new study suggests that patients can play an important part in reducing medicines wastage by ensuring unused medicines are removed from their repeat prescriptions. Unwanted medicines returned to community pharmacies
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10 hours ago
Main Category: Pharmacy / Pharmacist A new study suggests that patients can play an important part in reducing medicines wastage by ensuring unused medicines are removed from their repeat prescriptions. Unwanted medicines returned to community pharmacies
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The BMA has welcomed plans to set the minimum price per unit of alcohol in Scotland at 45 pence. Commenting on the proposed price announced by the Cabinet Secretary this morning, Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said that so far, no
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A member of the influential Public Accounts Committee is demanding an investigation into the £546m contract awarded to BT last year as part of the troubled National Programme for IT (NpfIT). The central allegation is that the supplier has ended up with
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Any system of value-based pricing for drugs in the UK will need to consider both short- and long-term economic efficiency and appropriately sustain and reward innovation, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries says in response to the
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Any system of value-based pricing for drugs in the UK will need to consider both short- and long-term economic efficiency and appropriately sustain and reward innovation, the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries says in response to the
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SKINT health board chiefs were blasted last night for splashing out
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11 hours ago
Asian doctors are being asked to share their experiences of the NHS for a book celebrating their contribution to it. The BMA equality and diversity committee is helping with the project, which is being led by race-equality think tank the Runnymede Trust
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The Department of Health (DoH) has defended its plans to change how the NHS is held to account, after union leaders launched a legal challenge. Unison, the union which represents most of the UKs health workers, pledged to oppose the Health White Paper,
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Again. Longstanding Spectator Readers may be forgiven for groaning that they have heard all this before. Not for a long time they haven't, and when I last wrote about this it was well before the Online Days. Still, feel free to skip if you are bored with
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Giving GPs responsibility for commissioning alongside service provision is crucial for better integration of health services and thus overall outcomes, a report by The Nuffield Trust has concluded. According to the Trust, experience on the international
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A saving of 1% to 1.5% of the cost of healthcare would justify the cost of fibre to the premises throughout the UK, says the International Telecommunications Union. Speaking to the Westminster Media Forum on Thursday, ITU secretary general Hamadoun
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Bosses at Milton Keynes Hospital, Bucks, have come up with the 'Clean Hands Rap' to help doctors and nurses learn proper hand washing technique. The song - which includes the lyrics ''Now to clean between your fingers, Just in case the bad bug lingers''
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It has emerged that Chief executives at NHS trusts have been offered a £130,000 redundancy pay by the government if they opt resign voluntarily. The mutually agreed resignation scheme (Mars) which is available until October, was indroduced by the
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22 hours ago
Voluntary sector leaders have contributed their thoughts on key aspects of the NHS White Paper. These comments cover cross-sector health issues - from GP commissioning, to the challenges of access for excluded communities, and personalisation - and are
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22 hours ago
NHS Grampian has agreed a contract worth almost 70,000 to "enhance the beverage and breakfast experience for patients". But the Scottish health board has to cut 100million from its building budget over the next five years because of the squeeze on public
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NHS Derbyshire County has appointed a new director of commissioning and informatics.
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NHS Birmingham East and North is launching an integrated campaign to urge women to have three alcohol-free days a week for three months. The '3 Days Booze Free' campaign is part of a drive to reduce the number of women aged 35 to 55 being admitted to
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1 day ago
Patients howling in despair after being told they must wait days for life-saving medicines. It’s a harrowing scene you might expect to encounter in some war-torn, third-world country. Yet it’s something you’ll witness every day in UK pharmacies in
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The size of consortia will not be important as long as risk is shared among neighbouring groups, a new GP commissioning council has concluded. In its first meeting this week, the NHS Alliance’s ‘Commissioning Federation Council’ discussed how best
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Arpaio accused of stonewalling for year Los Angeles Times DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued a controversial and popular Arizona sheriff, alleging that his department was refusing to cooperate with an investigation into whether it
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In our modern service economy, the customer is supposed to be king. Nobody seems to have told the firms I've been dealing withDo you complain? Do you take goods back to the shop, or ask to see the manager if you are dissatisfied? A growing number of people do: they complain about their mortgages, ab[...]
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A FORWARD-THINKING NHS trust that designed its own e-prescribing and clinical dashboard systems is now sharing its success with other organisations in a bid to help them save money, time and lives. The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), having been a client of NHSP for six years since August 2004, has signed a new contract which covers the Trust’s flexible worker arrangements for Nursing, Administrative & Clerical staff and includes hosting an
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Although front-line NHS services have been 'ring-fenced', the service is still expected to save billions of pounds. But rather than cutting corners or making compromises, the answer is to improve efficiency and patient outcomes through detailed costing,
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today, Friday, said Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust has made sufficient improvement to emergency response times and it would now lift the condition it had imposed on the trust’s licence. The CQC stressed that the
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