Архив - November, 2007
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The BMA today expresses strong opposition to the idea of a new grade of NHS doctor, who would have a specialist qualification, but not the same expertise as a consultant.
The warning is part of the BMA’s response to Sir John Tooke’s interim report on the UK-wide Modernising Medical Careers reforms. (Continuation content ‘BMA Warns Against Inferior Grade Of Doctor, UK’…)
Pharmacists play a very important role in providing patients information about prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) treatment options. This is especially important as the number of OTC medications grow, featuring new forms of medications that were previously available only with a prescription from a physician. (Continuation content ‘The American Pharmacists Association Supports Consumer Education About OTC Medications’…)
Georgia is not the place to get long-term help for a traumatic brain injury. Just ask Ben Fuller, the young father in North Georgia who, after being injured in a car accident, has spent more than two years shuttled between hospitals, unable to return to home. (Continuation content ‘Georgians With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Lost In An Inadequate System’…)
The NPA has warned a group of parliamentarians that ‘polyclinics’ could diminish access to primary care in neighbourhood locations, if developed without reference to existing networks of care, such as the community pharmacy network.
GP consolidation on the scale envisaged in the Government’s Our NHS Our Future interim report would have an appreciable impact on the surrounding pharmacy network, particularly if the polyclinic facility also contains a pharmacy.
Stephen Fishwick, Head of External Relations, said:
“Access is at least in part about convenient locations. (Continuation content ‘NPA Alerts MPs To Threat Of Polyclinics Planned In Isolation, UK’…)
Two articles on mortality are published in next week’s PLoS Medicine. In the first, Christopher Murray and colleagues achieved encouraging results from their use of vital registration data in Mexico with a new method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fractions. (Continuation content ‘Determining Cause Of Death: Validation Of New Methods In Developing Countries’…)
The MHRA raises the issue of ‘conditional medicines in its consultation: Challenges and priorities for the next five years.
If ‘conditionally licensed’ medicines are to be available for prescribing by general practitioners, or in any arrangement leading to their being supplied from pharmacies, the NPA considers that it would be essential to incorporate community pharmacies in the increased level of monitoring of safety and, indeed, efficacy in use. (Continuation content ‘Community Pharmacy Can Mitigate Risk Of ‘Conditionally’ Licensed Medicines, UK’…)
Federal Recovery Coordinator Donald Powell on Thursday said community health clinics are a “viable model” for delivering health care in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, the reports (Monteverde, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 11/16). (Continuation content ‘Federal Recovery Coordinator Says Medical Homes ‘Viable Model’ For Providing Primary Care In New Orleans’…)