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Tag Archives: Hospital Pharmacists
NHS England’s Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England / BBC News)
Summary Care home residents often have multiple long-term conditions and are often prescribed several different medicines (polypharmacy). NHS England plans to fund recruitment of 180 pharmacists and 60 pharmacy technicians who will work with care homes to try to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Achieving Better Value, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, BBC Health News, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Confusion in Care Homes, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults, Drug Cost Savings, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Economic Sustainability, English Pharmacy Board, Financial Constraints, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Frail Older People, Good Practice in Care Homes, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Imelda Redmond: Healthwatch England, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Integrated Care in Northumberland, Interdisciplinary Teams, Later Life, Less is More, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lowering Costs, Managing Medicines in Care Homes, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Overuse, Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, NHS England Local Area Teams: Frail Older People With Complex Needs, NHS England Pharmacy Integration Fund, Northumberland, Older Care Home Residents, Older People, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Oral Nutritional Support, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, Pharmacist-Led Care Home Medication Reviews, Pharmacist-Led Medication Reviews, Pharmacists, Pharmacists to Cut Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England), Pharmacy Technicians, Polypharmacy, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Acute Admissions from Care Homes, Prevention, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Preventive Care, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Proactive Specialist In-Reach, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Redesigning Services, Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reducing Wasted Medications, Research in Care Homes, Sandra Gidley: Chair of Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transforming Care for Frail Older People, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Wellbeing in Care Homes
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Professional Standards for Hospital Pharmacy Services (Royal Pharmaceutical Society)
Summary The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) have updated their “Professional Standards for Hospital Pharmacy Services”, in light of the Francis Inquiry report . Updates to this document place more emphasis on increasing patient involvement and feedback in the development of services. … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Aston University, Berwick Review, Berwick Review of Patient Safety, Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH), Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Care Episodes, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chief Pharmacists, Chronic Medication Service, Clinical Leadership, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Custom-Made Medicines, Discharge Medicines Review Service, Dispensing, Distribution Storage and Unused Medicines, Education and Training, Effective Use of Medicines, European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, European Working Time Directive (EWTD), Francis Inquiry Report, Future Hospital Commission, General Pharmaceutical Council, Governance, Hospital Pharmacies, Hospital Pharmacies: Seven Day Services, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital Pharmacy Services, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Information About Medicines, Integrated Transfer of Care, International Pharmaceutical Federation, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Joined-Up Hospital and Community Pharmacy Services, Labelling, Leadership, Leadership Competency Framework for Pharmacy Professionals, Local Approaches to Seven Day Pharmacy Services, Medication Adherence, Medicines Adherence, Medicines Expertise, Medicines Policy, Medicines Procurement, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England, New Medicine Service, New Model of Care: Future Hospital Commission, NHS England’s Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, Operational Leadership, Patient Experience, Patient Focus, Patient Needs, Patient Outcomes, Patient Preference and Adherence, Pharmacy Workforce and Ways of Working, Primary Care and Community Pharmacy Network, Professional Leadership, Professional Responsibilities, Professional Standards, Professional Standards for Hospital Pharmacy Services, Putting Patients First, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Royal College of Physicians’ Future Hospital Commission (RCP FHC), Royal Pharmaceutical Society, RPS Leadership Competency Framework for Pharmacy Professionals, RPS Professional Standards for Public Health Practice for Pharmacy, Safe Systems of Care, Safe Use of Medicines, Seven Day Pharmacy Services, Seven Day Services in Hospital Pharmacy, Strategic Leadership, Supply of Medicines, Targeted Medicines Use Reviews, UK Clinical Pharmacy Association, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, Week-Round NHS Services, Weekend Working, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Working Evenings and Weekends
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Parkinson’s Disease: Information for Hospital Pharmacists (Parkinson’s UK)
Summary This brief guide from Parkinson’s UK has been released for hospital pharmacists (and other healthcare professionals) as an aid to improve awareness and education about the condition. This booklet is aimed at hospital pharmacists, but another guide for community … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, National, Parkinson's Disease, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Anti-Emetics, Anticholinergics, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Catechol-O-Methyl Transferase Inhibitors, Dopamine, Dopamine Agonists, Drug Charts, Get It On Time Campaign, Glutamate Antagonist, Harm From Omitted and Delayed Medicines, Hospital Pharmacists, Levodopa, Medicines Management, Medicines Management Audits, Medicines Optimisation, Medicines to Avoid (Parkinson's Disease), Monoamine-Oxidase B Inhibitors, National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Neurological Disorders, NICE Guideline on Parkinson’s Disease, Parkinson's Awareness Week, Parkinson’s Awareness Week (2014), Parkinson’s Disease: for Hospital Pharmacists, Parkinson’s UK, Parkinson’s UK (Parkinsons Disease Society), Parkinsonian Symptoms, Pharmacists, Pill Timers, Self-Administration, SIGN Guideline on Parkinson’s Disease, Timely and Accurate Medication, Wearing Off
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Pharmacist-Based Donepezil Outpatient Consultation Service (Patient Preference and Adherence)
[A brief reference to this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012]. Summary Donepezil delays the progression of cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but the efficacy of pharmacotherapy … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), International, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights
Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, DOCS: Donepezil Outpatient Consultation Service, Donepezil, Donepezil (Aricept), Donepezil Outpatient Consultation Service (DOCS), Home Carers, Hospital Pharmacists, Japan, Medication Adherence, Medication Persistence, Outpatients, Patient Compliance, Patient Counselling, Patient Preference and Adherence, Pharmacist-Based Donepezil Outpatient Consultation Service, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers
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