Issue : The Pharmaceutical Journal, 18 January 2014, Vol 292, No 7793
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Pneumonia: CAP, HAP and other types Subscription
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of mortality with four million deaths worldwide each year. This article consolidates your knowledge of symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
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Critically ill children do not benefit clinically from tight glycaemic control
Critically ill children admitted to paediatric intensive care units do not benefit clinically from tight control of hyperglycaemia, using insulin infusion. However, tight control does have economic advantages for certain subgroups, a UK multicentre trial has found (New England Journal of Medicine 2014;370:107).
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SSRI use in late pregnancy linked to newborn pulmonary hypertension Subscription
Infants whose mothers took selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in late pregnancy may be at increased risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
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NHS England’s head of business systems hints at progress towards records access for pharmacists
A top NHS England official has indicated that the summary care record could be extended to the 11,000 community pharmacies in the country
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Hunt signals support for priority access to summary care record for community pharmacy
Jeremy Hunt, health secretary, has agreed to consider prioritising community pharmacy for access to the summary care record in 2015, along with ambulances, the NHS 111 service and accident and emergency departments, according to Sibby Buckle, member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board. However, he would like to see a measurable fall in emergency admissions as a result, she added. Mr Hunt’s comments were made in a meeting held in Westminster earlier this week ...
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Can supervision relaxation undermine patient safety in community pharmacy? Subscription
Supervision relaxation is on the cards again. Ellen Schafheutle and colleagues describe a study that explored communty and hospital pharmacyprofessionals’ views of the issues
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A case for patient record access
Pharmacist access to patient information held by GPs looks increasingly likely following a stakeholder meeting with health secretary Jeremy Hunt this week
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Importance of herd immunity
It can be uncomfortable to contemplate the ongoing impact of preventable diseases on the health of people in the developing world
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New research funding for pharmacists is a game changer for the profession Subscription
Relatively few pharmacists have been involved in research up to now, but many aspire to be. In this article, Elizabeth Sukkar finds out what you need to do to secure funding
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Morrisons defends its pharmacist over Welsh language row
Morrisons supermarket has defended one of its pharmacists following a protest outside one of its stores in north Wales. A crowd gathered outside Morrisons in Bangor last weekend (11 January 2014) after a prescription written partly in Welsh resulted in a delay to the treatment of a 15-month-old child who had been prescribed cefaclor and prednisolone. Facebook messages written by the child’s father and media reports of the incident suggest that the delay ...
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