Category list : Audit
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Hospitals outperforming primary care on antibiotic stewardship, says Public Health England Subscription
When it comes to implementing toolkits for antimicrobial stewardship, hospitals are doing better than primary care, according to research by Public Health England.
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Under treatment of venous thromboembolism persists in cardiac unit Subscription
Researchers introduced a new protocol in a cardiology unit to help ensure patients at risk were put on anticoagulants, but there were still high rates of under treatment.
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Audit on OTC medicines supply Subscription
Community pharmacists are invited to participate in a practice-based audit on the reasons for non-supply of requested over-the-counter medicines to patients. The audit, organised by Pharmacy Voice, is open to all members of the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies, the Company Chemists’ Association and National Pharmacy Association, and must take place for one week between 1 August and 30 November 2015.
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One in five prescription interventions relate to drug shortages Subscription
Around 20% of prescription interventions made by community pharmacists relate to medicines shortages, suggest the findings of an audit published on 8 July 2015.
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New dates for emergency supply of medicines audit Subscription
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC), NHS England and NHS Employers have agreed that the national community pharmacy clinical audit on the emergency supply of medicines will now go ahead over two revised audit periods: 23 March 2015–5 April 2015 and 6 April 2015–19 April 2015. The audit was agreed as part of the ...
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Consultants respond positively to audit of antimicrobial prescribing Subscription
An audit and feedback programme targeting medical consultant teams on a hospital acute admissions ward has resulted in improvements in antimicrobial prescribing.
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Audit highlights problem of patients taking NSAIDs without gastroprotection Subscription
Many patients taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are not co-prescribed gastroprotective agents, an audit of community pharmacies in England has found.
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Medicines regulator reviews chloramphenicol packaging after picking errors Subscription
Regulators are working with community pharmacy organisations to review the packaging of chloramphenicol eye and ear drops.
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Doctors call for improvement of inflammatory bowel disease services Subscription
Doctors are calling for a national strategy for inflammatory bowel disease so that it receives the same attention as other chronic conditions such as diabetes.
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Audit tool for needle and syringe programmes Subscription
Exchange Supplies has developed an audit tool to assist Needle and Syringe Programme providers in reviewing the implementation of the recently published National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance about needle and syringe programmes. Hard copies of the tool are available from Exchange Supplies on request.
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