PCPA NPA MUR Support And Evaluation Programme - Pilot Sites Chosen, UK In March the PCPA and NPA invited PCTs and LPCs to apply jointly for an MUR support and evaluation programme. The programme has been designed to evaluate how effective MURs are at improving patients understanding of their
medicines and subsequent compliance under prescribers' direction.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPSA NSW President Awarded RPSGB Fellowship For International Leadership, Australia The President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (NSW Branch), Professor Shalom (Charlie) Benrimoj, has been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Professor Benrimoj, the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Planning) at The University of Sydney, also holds the Foundation Professor of Pharmacy Practice (1991) and was also the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy from 2000 to 2005.He lives on Sydney's North Shore at Turramurra.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNPA Reassures On Pharmacist's Ability To Provide EHC, UK The NPA has reiterated its position on Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) in response to an article in the Prescriber. The NPA in reply to the article (Vol 19 Issue 7 April 2008) stated that women should be able to obtain a combined oral contraceptive directly from a pharmacist.Margaret Peycke, NPA Service Development Information Manager said: "The NPA believes that the sexual needs of patients should be met through easy access to safe and effective clinical services.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBuffington Honored With American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Award Of Excellence The American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) honored Daniel E. Buffington, Pharm.D., M.B.A., with the esteemed ASHP Board of Directors Award of Excellence for his work to develop payment models that will appropriately reimburse pharmacists for their therapy-management services. Buffington, president and chief executive officer of Clinical Pharmacology Services (CPS) in Tampa, Fla., received the award during ASHP's Summer Meeting in Seattle.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPharmacy Has Key Role To Play In Reducing Health Inequalities, UK Responding to the launch of the document
Health Inequalities: Progress and Next Steps, by
Health Secretary Alan Johnson on 9 June, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) said that pharmacists are ideally placed to play a significant role in helping to reduce
health inequalities across Britain. David Pruce, RPSGB Director of Practice and Quality Improvement, said: "The RPSGB will consider carefully the detail of this report.
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