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Aseptic services supervision divides opinion but Government plan gets go-ahead

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Pharmacy minister Stephen Kinnock said the changes will allow pharmacists to ‘spend more time providing clinical care, while qualified pharmacy technicians can take greater responsibility for routine tasks’. These are simple, common-sense changes that will help pharmacies run better, saving staff and patient time.’

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Recruiting and retaining pharmacists: developing an effective flexible working approach

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The recruitment and retention of clinical and non-clinical staff is a persistent challenge across secondary care services. Noting a concerning vacancy rate, the pharmacy department at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust set about determining the reasons for this and identifying solutions.

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A decade of driving medicines optimisation innovation in clinical pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

2 In early 2016, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety published the Northern Ireland Medicines Optimisation Quality Framework 3 to enhance health outcomes by ensuring that medicines deliver the best possible results whenever they are prescribed, dispensed or administered. March 2016 [Accessed April 2025].

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Dapagliflozin Improves Health Outcomes for Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

Drug Topics

. | Image Credit: WindyNight - stock.adobe.com "Our findings showed that adolescents who received this combination therapy were able to improve many symptoms typically associated with insulin-managed type one diabetes,” Farid Mahmud, MD, FRCPC, physician at The Hospital for Sick Children, said in a news release. October 18, 2016.

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TekniPlex Healthcare Unveils New Barrier Protection Systems Plant

Pharmaceutical Commerce

This features patients, hospitals, laboratories, and outpatient surgery centers—with sterile barrier packaging that is able to safeguard medical technologies—in an effort to promote uninterrupted supply chains and faster delivery windows. The products manufactured here directly impact patients’ lives.

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Antimicrobial Stewardship in Turkey – A Clinical Pharmacist’s Perspective

IDStewardship

During this period, I had the opportunity to attend many meetings, seminars, conferences and congresses on infectious diseases held both in Hacettepe Hospitals and other institutions and cities. In infectious diseases, in addition to the patient and the drug, the microorganism is the third component of the disease.

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The evolution of the pharmacist prescriber: a prescription for change

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Pharmacist prescribing is an evolving component of modern healthcare systems across Europe, including in hospital settings. By contrasting the evolution of pharmacist prescribing in these two regions, this article will explore how the practice benefits patients, pharmacists and the wider healthcare system.