Cardiovascular diseases

NHS trust to recirculate out-of-hours medicines access process following prisoner death

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust also confirmed that training sessions will continue to reinforce staff understanding in response to a coroner's prevention of future deaths report.…

Escalation pathways for complex anticoagulation introduced after patient death

A patient died from prosthetic aortic valve thrombosis with sub-therapeutic anticoagulation, after clinicians were unable to keep her international normalised ratio within a therapeutic range.…

Updated hypertension case‑finding service draws calls for impact assessment

Changes to the specification for the ‘Community pharmacy hypertension case-finding service’ exclude people who have previously had a blood pressure check via the service in the previous five years.…

NICE recommends heart drug aficamten with simultaneous MHRA approval

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said that aficamten is likely to be as effective as mavacamten in treating obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with “fewer monitoring scans to find the right dose”.…

NICE draft guidance recommends finerenone for type of chronic heart failure

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence noted that indirect comparison suggests that finerenone may work as well as spironolactone in treating heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction in adults.…

Pharmacy can play a greater role in national CVD framework, says CCA

The government's cardiovascular disease modern service framework is aimed to help reduce premature deaths from heart disease and strokes by 25% over the next ten years.…

Blood pressure and cholesterol in older adults with obesity found to be similar to people with healthy BMIs

Study authors said their findings coincide with an increased use of cholesterol-lowering medication and blood pressure medication in recent years among adults aged over 40 years with obesity, compared with adults with normal BMIs.…

Health news round-up: endocrine research, binge eating on the pill and AI in the NHS

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…

MHRA issues drug safety warning over ACE inhibitor side effect

A drug safety warning has advised clinicians that ACE inhibitors should be halted immediately if a patient is suspected of presenting with angioedema during treatment.…

Health news round-up: elecoglipron, antibiotic resistant E. coli and low blood pressure risk in frailty

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…