Breast cancer patients worry about effects of tamoxifen on fertility Tamoxifen has had a major impact on reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrences, but many younger women are either not starting treatment or are discontinuing it early.…
Expand pharmacy services to ease out-of-hours burden, profession’s leaders urge Roles for pharmacists in general practice, NHS 24, out-of-hours services and A&E, say Scottish pharmacy bodies.…
Time to limit the damage caused by inaccurate stories about pharmacists accessing medical records Scaremongering stories from newspapers could damage the trust between pharmacy and the public.…
NHS England and pharmacy organisations defend access to patient data Allowing pharmacists access to summary care records will not adversely affect patient privacy, NHS England says.…
Nurse practitioners in pharmacies: a potential solution to the NHS crisis A pharmacy walk-in service run by nurse practitioners in the United States could be adopted in the UK to ease the burden on the overstretched NHS.…
Giving pharmacists access to summary care records will improve patient care Pharmacists must seize the opportunity offered by read-only access to summary care records and prove that full access to GP patient notes is the logical next step.…
Patient consent in the UK A ruling by the UK Supreme Court means patients must be given information tailored to their own needs before consent is obtained.…
Risks and benefits of pharmacists accessing patients’ summary care records The government has decided to allow community pharmacists in England the ability to access the summary care record, an electronic patient record derived from patients’ GP records.…
Pharmacists in Scotland and Wales call for ‘parity’ of records access following England roll-out plans Pharmacists call for the level of access to patient records to be aligned across the UK.…
Community pharmacists in England to get access to the summary care record All community pharmacists in England are being given access to the summary care record from autumn 2015, health minister Alistair Burt has announced.…