Medicines

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20 February 2006

MHRA implements adverse drug reaction software

The government’s medicines safety agency has implemented new software to improve management of adverse drug reaction (ADR) data reported by
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3 February 2006

EPS pilot to restart after early glitch

One of England’s first electronic prescription service (EPS) pilots has been shut down for more than a month because of
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16 January 2006

Warning on patient data from medicines reviews

Pharmacists are being warned not to e-mail medicines use reviews to GPs until concerns over confidentiality have been addressed. The
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16 December 2005

Pharmacists call for GP booking facility

  Pharmacy representatives are calling for a ‘Choose and Book’ style system to be set up between pharmacies and GP
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22 November 2005

Birmingham PCTs sign up for Pfizer self-care project

Two PCTs in Birmingham are to be the first in the UK to implement a community self-care project in which patients
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9 November 2005

Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off

GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of
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20 October 2005

AAH launches ‘onestopshop’ ETP solution

AAH Pharmaceuticals has announced the launch of its ‘onestopshop’ Electronic Prescription Service solution, an all-inclusive solution based on its LinkEvolution
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29 September 2005

Accreditation for e-prescription service software

Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the
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26 September 2005

BNF for Children launches with online version

A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version
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13 September 2005

New software for logging drug enquiries ready

New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released
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