The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As a new trial begins, the hope is to assist not just the time-poor or the lazy but elderly people and those with disease or disability In a hospital in northern Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle, a landmark experiment is taking place that could transform the way we treat ageing in the years to come.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Interim professional standards to ensure the safe and effective delivery of high-quality care and optimal outcomes for individuals in the ‘hospital at home’ setting have been published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 28, 2024

It is imperative to underscore that the hospital pharmacist is, and must be, an indisputable part of all health systems at all levels in frontline patient care, and the profession must advocate for themselves and reinforce this narrative.

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IDStewardship

AUGUST 1, 2023

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. The number of hospitals in our country with a structured and active antimicrobial stewardship team is quite limited.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Almost nine in 10 hospital pharmacists are at high risk of burnout, according to the results of the fifth annual workforce and wellbeing survey from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). The results show a worrying 88% of hospital pharmacists are at high risk of burnout.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Establishing a core priority Despite having a role that rarely involved a patient-facing element, Cecilia Tse, the trust’s formulary lead pharmacist, was keen to establish person-centred care as a core priority for every member of the team and in all facets of pharmacy across Northwick Park Hospital.

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The Happy PharmD

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Previously I wrote about medication errors in my hospital. This is an atmosphere in a hospital that blames the system rather than the person. A few of my hospitals had just culture atmospheres. Like most hospitals, my hospital had a Sentinel Event Committee. Was our hospital lacking in its procedures?

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MAY 13, 2024

His Majesty King Charles III has become the new patron of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), it has been announced. The Royal Society of Medicine, University College Hospital and the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine were also among the healthcare organisations selected, as well as Cancer Research UK.

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STAT

APRIL 22, 2024

The research, by a team at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), will be presented next month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, potentially paving the way for human trials.

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STAT

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Pharmacists increasingly are being asked to make drugs in bulk for hospitals that are in short supply, and they’re even beginning to make chemotherapies. Hospitals’ reliance on pharmacist-made drugs, a practice called compounding, has risen in step with worsening drug shortages.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 3, 2023

A pilot study examining the benefits of nasal photodisinfection for the prevention of surgical site infections is being trialled at a UK hospital. Although infections after hip and knee surgeries are rare, we know that they lengthen patients’ stay in hospital, complicate the recovery process and cause significant pain and suffering.

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STAT

JUNE 3, 2023

“Twinning programs” helped to reduce survival disparities in childhood acute leukemia between high income and lower income countries, according to a study presented here at the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Saturday.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There is no place for violence in civil society. Yet stabbings, shootings, threats and other violent attacks have become frighteningly common, including in America’s hospitals and other health care settings.

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IDStewardship

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Approximately 5-15% of patients requiring mechanical ventilation will develop VAP during their hospitalization. Based on large surveillance data, most regions in the United States have MRSA rates above 30%, therefore, most hospital guidelines in this country likely include an anti-MRSA agent as part of empiric therapy for VAP. .

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Hypothermic temperature control for unconscious patients following an in-hospital cardiac arrest may not provide a mortality benefit. The value of hypothermic temperature control for unconscious patients following an in-hospital cardiac arrest remains uncertain. unconscious) for longer than 45 minutes after their IHCA.

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STAT

DECEMBER 27, 2022

They knew such an event would overwhelm hospitals, strain supply chains, and place stresses on society that we would be ill-equipped to meet. People who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a bad pandemic would one day come. Read the rest…

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The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

JANUARY 26, 2024

I work in a large city hospital and am used to meeting disgruntled patients who have had to wait hours in clinic to receive treatment. Ammad Butt is a freelance writer and foundation doctor at University Hospitals Birmingham Continue reading.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Millions could be missing out on the most effective antibiotic choice because they mistakenly believe they are allergic to penicillin, prolonging their recovery, increasing the risk of infection and even leading to hospital admission. A version of this article was first published by our sister publication Pulse.

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STAT

DECEMBER 9, 2023

SAN DIEGO — News of the Food and Drug Administration’s historic approval of the first gene therapies for sickle cell disease sparked discussion, debate, and, above all, measured optimism at this year’s meeting of the American Society of Hematology. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. I remain skeptical.”

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STAT

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The study of 18,000 children who were treated at 49 pediatric hospitals in the U.S. between 2004 and 2020 found that those who had cranial surgery, which involves removing or disconnecting the brain portion where seizures occur, were 83% more likely to be alive after 10 years.

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STAT

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The gene therapies, with the risks and hospital stays and bespoke manufacturing they entail, won’t be an option for the vast majority of U.S. Two gene therapies were approved for sickle cell disease last week, but for many researchers the Holy Grail remains something far more modest: A pill.

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STAT

AUGUST 11, 2023

Fifty-seven percent of hospital pharmacists said they are facing critical shortages of chemotherapy drugs in a new survey from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Hospital pharmacists also reported significant shortages of steroids, hormonal drugs, and oral liquids such as amoxicillin and lidocaine.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The first pilot cohort of pharmacists have completed the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) advanced e-portfolio pathway, which was launched in March 2023 to recognise and quality assure advanced pharmacist practice in England. A version of this story was originally published by our sister publication The Pharmacist.

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IDStewardship

MARCH 23, 2023

A greater awareness, even within individual hospitals, of the resistance genes, MRSA rates, and VRE rates generate attention and bring better techniques to resolving AMR concerns. “Part of the problem is the lack of data at many levels.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 2008, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists published a document outlining the activities that pharmacy services in EDs should provide, which was subsequently updated in 2021. Therefore, they should be included in the hospital’s emergency preparedness plans. Ortmann MJ et al. Am J Health-Syst Pharm 2021;78:261–75.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

AUGUST 17, 2023

Guidance on the provision of CAR T and cellular therapy services in hospital pharmacy has been published by the GoCART Coalition to harmonise implementation across Europe. 10 Once the CAR T-cells are manufactured, they are delivered to hospital pharmacies, making pharmacists central in ensuring appropriate governance and management.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 16, 2024

Meanwhile, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, which hosts PRUK’s offices and staff, has announced the appointment of Dr Amira Guirguis as the new chair of its Science and Research Committee (SRC). The SRC comprises esteemed individuals from various sectors, including academia, industry, regulation, hospitals, and community practice.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 3, 2023

China is estimated to have witnessed nearly half of the new cases and deaths worldwide, with more than 410,000 new cases and 390,000 deaths reported in 2020.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Figures revealing NHS England’s prescribing costs highlight the ‘vital role of pharmacists in medicines optimisation’, the chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) in England has said. was spent on medicines prescribed by hospitals and dispensed in the community. of the total spend within hospitals. An additional £93.6m

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 16, 2024

These data were presented at European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in October 2023. Compared with standard intravenous (IV) delivery, Roche stated that its monoclonal antibody biologic shortens treatment time by approximately 80 percent.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JULY 27, 2023

Progress on Government commitments to support both hospital and community pharmacy services in England ‘require improvement’, an expert panel commissioned by the parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee has found.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is calling on pharmacists across the UK to engage with their MPs and local prospective parliamentary candidates to help ensure pharmacy is part of health service debates ahead of the next general election.

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IDStewardship

JUNE 1, 2023

There have been multiple guidelines on antimicrobial stewardship published by the Infectious Disease Society of America. There are Core Elements on antimicrobial stewardship that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published for hospitals, outpatient, nursing homes, and limited-resource settings.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

MAY 7, 2024

TAR-210: a promising alternative treatment option “Advancement in the treatment landscape of high- or intermediate-risk non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer has remained stagnant for more than 50 years,” stated Dr Antoni Vilaseca, PhD, of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, presenting author of the Phase I TAR-210 study.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 26, 2024

Researchers and clinicians worked across three UK hospital trusts, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to deliver the penicillin challenges.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

DECEMBER 18, 2023

To this end, the Society of Geriatric Oncology and the French Society of Oncology Pharmacists have published a position paper to support this collaboration. This pathway is particularly complex in geriatric oncology, with multiple providers and transitions between community and hospital settings increasing the risk of iatrogenic harm.

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STAT

JUNE 7, 2023

 government will launch a $50 million pilot program to explore how new weight-loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy can be given to more obese patients outside of specialist services in hospitals , Reuters writes. government said the program would reduce pressure on hospitals. The move comes after the U.K.’s

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