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Medicines optimisation teams ‘lack capacity’ to drive transformation, says NHS Confed

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

For example, it suggested that when secondary care has access to the electronic prescribing system, the dispensing of drugs currently dispensed by NHS trusts – including high-tech medicines such as oral chemotherapy or immunotherapy drugs and monoclonal antibody therapies – could be moved to community pharmacy.

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Mapping the crisis: How data can help fix America’s growing pharmacy deserts

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Portugal: A Study and Comparison Class

Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

Prior to the course, students learn about pharmacy regulations, associations, advocacy, and independent community settings in Minnesota and the United States so that they can compare and contrast with the systems in Portugal.

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Novo Nordisk launches recycling programme for pen injectors

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Users of the devices in the UK will shortly be able to recycle empty pens at around 2,500 Boots, Lloyds, Rowlands, and various independent and community pharmacies, as well as through pre-paid Royal Mail boxes and an ‘at home’ collection service for people using growth hormone pens.

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Q&A with PQA Board Chair James Kirby

PQA

I still oversee program development today but am now focused on health care innovation and collaborating with payers, pharmaceutical companies, providers, and patients to bring these holistic solutions to market. I have worked in both the payer and provider segments, including hospital, mail, and specialty pharmacy.

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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. There are 56,000 community pharmacies in the US. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding.

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Embracing green innovation in life sciences

European Pharmaceutical Review

Re-Hale , which is currently ongoing in collaboration with NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board, has seen the introduction of an inhaler recycling scheme within the East Kent area to collect unwanted inhalers using local drop-off collection sites, including acute trusts, primary care and community pharmacies.