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Pharmacy united in the recovery of healthcare

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The Brighton-Lusaka Health Link (BLHL) drew on expertise from Brighton and Sussex hospitals and medical school to develop and pilot a hub and spoke model to enhance AMS in tertiary hospitals in Zambia. More than 70% of community pharmacists who took part in the pilot said that they would continue to use the checklist.

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Prescribing shift for Pfizer’s Paxlovid expands access but draws questions

Pharmaceutical Technology

Many health systems have their own community pharmacies, with pharmacists working in places like emergency departments, primary care clinics, and specialty clinics where they have access to patient medical records, Ganio says. The US FDA has not announced any updates to Lagevrio’s label.

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Taking stock of NHS medicines optimisation

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Between 5-10% of all hospital admissions are medicines-related and around two-thirds of these are preventable. The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust has used electronic medical records to document and share medicines decisions with GP practices and community pharmacies. At around £20.9 Harnessing technology.

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7. Reflections on a Career in Pharmacy and Medicine with Dr. Steven Berk

The Physician Pharmacist

So in that, you know, I was talking with this farm D student and he was saying before you go to find the school, you might want to see if you like it, I would highly recommend doing a residency program in clinical pharmacy or half at the time it was hospital pharmacy. At that time, it was called the West Side VA hospital.