The cream of Northern Ireland’s healthcare industry took a bow last Thursday night as the 17th annual Northern Ireland Healthcare Awards once again descended upon the Europa Hotel in Belfast. The glittering gala grants the province’s healthcare professionals the opportunity to highlight their own work and to receive the accolades of their peers. This year [...]
The British Dietetic Association (BDA) has shared the breaking news that dietitians have been granted supplementary prescribing rights. This significant decision made by Minister George Freeman, means that advanced level and experienced dietitians, who have successfully completed an approved post-graduate education and training programme, will be able to prescribe medicines for their patients under a [...]
An epilepsy drug could lead to a new treatment that protects nerve damage in MS patients, according to research published in the Lancet Neurology. Researchers, led by Dr Raj Kapoor from the UCL Institute of Neurology, found the anti-convulsant drug phenytoin protected neural tissue in patients with optic neuritis. Optic neuritis is a symptom of MS [...]
A first-of-its-kind global consumer survey into body pain shows that almost all of us experience body pain (93 per cent), with two-thirds (67 per cent) of us suffering every week and over one in ten (twelve per cent) saying they feel in pain constantly. Body pain is defined by aches in your muscles, tendons, ligaments, and [...]
NHS Fife is in joint consultation with Harminder Shergill T/A Dalgety Healthcare regarding their proposed application for a new pharmacy to open within Dalgety Bay. NHS Fife has to decide whether granting of the application would be necessary or desirable in order to secure adequate provision of pharmaceutical services in the neighbourhood in which the [...]
Eisai has criticised strongly NHS England (NHSE) for further delaying access to a number of new cancer treatments. This failure is a result of the implementation by NHSE of a new Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), following a consultation NHSE confirmed at their board meeting. Those new licensed drugs that have been denied access since May [...]
The sixth annual Productive Innovation Index released by IDEA Pharma, which ranks biopharmaceutical companies by their ability to successfully bring innovations to market, sees Johnson & Johnson top the industry for the fourth year running. The Productive Innovation Index measures, scores and celebrates a company's ability to deliver innovation to patients, by objectively evaluating performance data based [...]
Aesica Pharmaceuticals, the global pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has announced the full strategic relocation of development and clinical manufacturing services from Nottingham to Queenborough. As a consequence, Aesica now intends to provide full manufacturing and development services at its Queenborough site with the addition of a new development centre. From Queenborough, the company now provides API production, formulation [...]
There are a number of vacancies available on the Pharmaceutical Science Expert Advisory Panel (PS EAP). The PS EAP, which was established in 2010, draws from the breadth of academic, clinical, industrial, community and regulatory pharmacy settings, and provides advice and guidance to RPS, and thereby to the pharmacy profession as a whole, on emergent [...]
The Department of Health (DH) is currently consulting on the extension of charging overseas visitors and migrants using the NHS in England. The consultation – Making a fair contribution – is particularly relevant to community pharmacy teams because it outlines when both European Economic Area (EEA) and non-EEA visitors/residents will be required to pay a [...]
