Latest BGOP Briefing To Highlight Community Pharmacy Role For Organisations Working With Older People, UK Better Government for Older People has published the latest in a series of briefings - easy reference information leaflets for BGOP Older People's Forums/Advisory Groups, Local Authorities (County Councils who are BGOP members) and some PCTs. Each edition is dedicated to one of the BGOP strategic priorities on issues affecting older people.BGOP Briefing 13 promotes community pharmacy to the BGOP audience and considers the role of community pharmacy in supporting older people.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNPA Establishes Pharmacy IT Supply Chain Forum, UK The NPA has brought together all members of the pharmacy IT supply chain including PMR suppliers, aggregators and transaction brokers to allow the NPA, on behalf of its members, to raise issues and concerns and discuss potential solutions with those responsible for implementing IT (and EPS in particular) in community pharmacy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAlzheimer' S Society Comment On A Review Of Palliative Care Published In The May Issue Of Journal Of Clinical Nursing, UK One in three people over 65 will die with dementia and too many of them are subjected to an undignified and unnecessarily painful death. This is often because staff lack the specialist training to provide good care at the end of someone's life. It is vital that all people, not just those with cancer, benefit from good palliative care. The number of people living with dementia in the UK is set to soar to more than a million in less than twenty years.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comQuit Smoking Message Not Getting Air Time In Mental Health Care People with mental illness are not receiving the support they need to stop smoking, despite high rates of nicotine dependence and deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.According to Professor Steve Kisely, from Griffith University's School of
Medicine,
health services are failing to provide appropriate smoking cessation strategies to people with problems including depression, schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress disorder.
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