Hospitals should identify and prescribe time-critical medicines within 24 hours of emergency admission NHS England standards also state that support services, including pharmacy, should be available daily for acute receiving areas during extended-day working hours.…
Boots launches lung cancer early awareness scheme Signs will be placed around over-the-counter cold and flu management products advising patients to speak to a Macmillan-trained pharmacist if they have symptoms suggestive of lung cancer.…
Patient died from infection associated with non-sterile alcohol-free wipes The UK Health Security Agency and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency have warned that anyone with non-sterile alcohol-free wipes in their home and first aid kits should remove them immediately.…
Health news round-up: travel warnings, AMR in children, and the latest on medicine supply A weekly summary of important developments in pharmacy and health news that you may have missed.…
National pharmacy stop-smoking service could support more than 200,000 quit attempts annually The Company Chemists’ Association said a national walk-in pharmacy service would offer a single, consistent route for patients looking to quit smoking.…
Pharmacies to deliver HPV ‘catch-up’ vaccines and early cancer detection under national cancer plan In its national cancer plan, the government has announced that pharmacies will offer ‘catch-up’ human papillomavirus vaccinations to young patients who missed their dose at school.…
Patient safety commissioner to approach PM over ‘disappointing’ delay to valproate compensation Henrietta Hughes said that nearly two years after publishing ‘The Hughes report’, patients harmed by valproate use are still waiting for a decision on financial redress.…
Prescribing error led to death of baby, says coroner A newborn patient was wrongly prescribed sodium acid phosphate instead of sodium chloride, leading to an overdose, a report from the coroner for Inner West London found.…
Health news round-up: NICE approvals, surveillance data and GLP-1 warnings A weekly summary of important developments in pharmacy and health news that you may have missed.…
Managing neuropathic pain in bipolar disorder An overview of the clinical considerations for managing comorbid bipolar disorder and neuropathic pain.…
