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Interventions by a critical care pharmacist in a surgical intensive care unit helped a hospital avoid spending almost $280,000 over four and a half months, and 85 percent of those interventions were judged to have prevented medication-related injury in patients, according to a study in Dec. 1, 2007, edition of the American Journal of Health-System [...]

Recently, at a public meeting sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) strongly supported the concept of making certain drugs available without a prescription, but only after consultation with a pharmacist. The FDA is seeking information and views from the public regarding such a “behind-the-counter” (BTC) status of [...]

The MHRA raises the issue of ‘conditional medicines in its consultation: Challenges and priorities for the next five years. If ‘conditionally licensed’ medicines are to be available for prescribing by general practitioners, or in any arrangement leading to their being supplied from pharmacies, the NPA considers that it would be essential to incorporate community pharmacies [...]

The NPA has warned a group of parliamentarians that ‘polyclinics’ could diminish access to primary care in neighbourhood locations, if developed without reference to existing networks of care, such as the community pharmacy network. GP consolidation on the scale envisaged in the Government’s Our NHS Our Future interim report would have an appreciable impact on [...]

Below is a joint statement by Steven C. Anderson, IOM, CAE, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), and Bruce Roberts, R.Ph., CEO and executive vice president the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) regarding the filing of a motion for preliminary injunction challenging CMS-imposed Medicaid pharmacy reimbursement reductions. [...]