Tribute to Dilip PatelIt is with great sadness to announce the demise of Dilip Patel. I met Dilip at Leicester where we were studying pharmacy in the late 1970s and we have been good friends ever since. He was always helpful and kind to everyone who knew him. His love for sports was admirable and he was very fond of cr…
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NICE rejects £360,000 therapy for rare paediatric bone disorder A treatment for a rare childhood bone disorder has been provisionally rejected for NHS funding by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which ruled the drug does not represent value for money.…
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Pharmacists in Scotland to have bigger role in reformed urgent care services Community pharmacists in Scotland are being given an increased role in a reformed NHS out-of-hours service, following a Scottish government-commissioned independent review into urgent care.…
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Enhancing clinical practice through pharmaceutical science ‘Integrated pharmacy case studies’, by Sally-Anne Francis, Felicity Smith, John Malkinson, Andrew Constanti and Kevin Taylor.…