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Update Module 1564: The metabolic syndrome: part 1
Practical Approach: Issues with NSAIDS and heart failure
Ethical dilemma: what would you do?
Enhanced services: going, going, gone?
8 ways to avoid lease pitfalls
Why PNAs will not address need
Living proof: the Healthy Living Pharmacy scheme
Category focus: digestive health
C+D Senate: Surviving in the new NHS
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Invest in the new medicine service Using the classic trick of offsetting bad news with good, contract negotiators for England and Wales this week announced the latest category M hit alongside a new advanced service. I never thought I would be writing this again this year, but my pharmacy transfer is STILL going through. It officially began in May last year and the never ending headache continues! Are we working together or on our own?
Collaborating to tackle medicines waste
Reader of the Week: Bhavesh Patel
Clues to how new service works
Webhunter: Moving the goalposts
An LPC’s role in supporting pharmacies through NHS reform
We now know that the national NHS Commissioning Board will deal with most of the community pharmacy services and that the global sum will remain nationally controlled. However, writes Devon LPC's Mark Stone, prescribing budgets, which make up 10 per cent of the NHS spend, will be an important area for GP commissioning groups to focus on. |
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25/03/2011
The metabolic syndrome is a major risk factor for CVD and diabetes. This Update explores how the syndrome is defined, and how you can measure CVD risk. 
The pre-reg at the Update pharmacy consults David Spencer about a prescription for an older woman she's concerned about.
You have noticed a small error on a prescription for methadone - after it has been dispensed. What should you do, and what are the potential consequences of this error? Share your views with other pharmacists. Email
As PCTs start to cut award-winning pharmacy services in the name of cost-saving, Emma Weinbren asks just how bad things could get for the sector.
Negotiating a lease is never easy and, as competition law changes, pharmacists now have even more to consider when sealing the deal. As pharmacy leases last an average of 15 to 20 years, it’s important to ensure your lease covers all eventualities, say healthcare lawyers Charles Russell.
The C+D Senate ruled last week that understanding PNAs was key to pharmacy’s future, but Senator and LPC secretary Hemant Patel says PNAs will not achieve government aims
Portsmouth’s Healthy Living Pharmacy initiative is making ministers sit up and take notice of pharmacy. Hannah Flynn reveals the secrets of its success
Kathy Oxtoby explores this £100m market ranging from indigestion to irritable bowel syndrome
Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms will see a new world with GP commissioners and local authorities as pharmacy’s paymasters. Hannah Flynn finds out what C+D Senators say the sector must do to survive
Every time I ask a patient for a prescription charge, I marvel at the four years’ training it took for me to qualify as a tax collector.
The York Health Economics Consortium report, released last November, showed medicines waste cost the NHS in England £300 million in 2009 alone.
Meet Bhavesh Patel, a pharmacist from Essex who loves golf and likes to escape with a bit of Tolkien
Chris Chapman looks at the possibilities for the new medicine service
Monitor will be there to make sure everyone plays by the rules. But no-one really seems to have decided what the details of those rules are.
Unless you’ve been living on Planet Zopiclone, you’ll realise family doctors are being entrusted with a dizzyingly large slice of the NHS budget. And you’re probably thinking those pound signs have us rubbing our hands in power-crazed glee. 
