Evaluation - NPA Provides The Means To Make The Case For Funding, UK The NPA is developing a 'value for money in community pharmacy' project, incorporating the commissioning of an evaluation toolkit that will empower community pharmacists to make a case to the NHS for the commissioning or re-commissioning of pharmacy based services, based on an assessment of the cost-benefit of pharmacy services. PCTs are obliged to develop investment/disinvestment strategies based on evidence of effectiveness.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comProgress Made On 2015 Initiative - American Society Of Health-System Pharmacists Significant progress has been made toward achieving the medication-safety and medication-use technology goals of the ASHP
Health-System Pharmacy 2015 Initiative.Specifically, major progress was made on objectives 4.1 through 4.4, which concern medication safety, and objectives 5.1 through 5.4, which deal with the adoption of medication-use technology.Slight or relatively no progress was made on other objectives.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAnesiva Announces South Korea FDA Approval Of Adlea(TM) Investigational New Drug Application Anesiva, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSV) announced that the South Korea Food and Drug Administration has approved Anesiva's investigational new drug application for Adlea(TM), the company's long-acting, site specific, non-opioid drug candidate in Phase 3 clinical development for the management of acute pain following orthopedic surgery. Anesiva plans to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial of Adlea in patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery in South Korea this summer.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew-look National Prescribing Service Pharmacy Review Improves Health By Building Rapport, Australia Pharmacists say relationships with patients are extended and supported by the National Prescribing Service Limited's (NPS) new-look Pharmacy Practice Review counselling and action resource and this is yielding better results for patients.
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