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22 November 2005

South London and Maudsley goes live with JAC

South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has gone live across the trust with a new pharmacy management system from JAC
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9 November 2005

Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off

GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of
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3 November 2005

IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog

 Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not
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20 October 2005

From dependence to responsibility

In the first of a two part article, Iain Anderson from Capgemini looks at the drivers for change in the
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26 September 2005

BNF for Children launches with online version

A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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19 September 2005

Patients check records for errors

A practical exercise to find out how many errors patients can find in their records and how many entries they
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13 September 2005

New software for logging drug enquiries ready

New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released
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6 September 2005

Stigma? What stigma?

Jim Thomson, chief executive of the Centre for Mental Health, strongly argues for greater regulations on online pharmacies and the
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12 August 2005

A wristband that checks the right drug? Brilliant

A student at Brunel University has won an industry prize for designing a hospital wristband, called ‘Brilliant’, that can check the dose
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