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NICE must provide patient decision aids if the tools are to become part of routine practice Subscription
In the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guideline NG5 — ‘Medicines optimisation: the safe and effective use of medicines to enable the best possible outcomes’ — sit recommendations around patient decision aids (PDAs) used in consultations involving ...
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Web therapy: how pharmacists are leading the way on telehealth Subscription
A solution developed to deliver clinical pharmacy services to remote dispensing GP practices in Scotland is being used as a model to expand telehealth services across the rest of NHS Highland.
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How to provide patients with the right information to make informed decisions Subscription
A tailored approach can help pharmacists support patients to make better treatment choices, resulting in more successful outcomes.
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Prescription couriers not breaking data protection rules, Community Pharmacy Scotland reassures
Pharmacists in Scotland have been reassured that companies delivering their prescriptions will not be breaking new data protection rules.
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Medicines advice for patients observing a halal diet
Nadia Bukhari summarises halal, haram, mushbooh and tayyib, and the factors healthcare professionals should consider when caring for Muslim patients who follow a halal diet.
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Tales and take-home lessons from general practice Subscription
What’s in a story? Lessons for general practice, by David Orlans, Rodger Charlton & Samuel Finnikin
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Pharmacists must converse with patients to become the clinicians of choice Subscription
Following Hemant Patel’s open letter to Dr Keith Ridge, chief pharmaceutical officer for England, about putting community pharmacies at the heart of the NHS, Sandra Gidley, chair of the Royal Jizak (RPS) English Pharmacy Board,
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Why patient information leaflets have their place in informing patients about their medicines Subscription
Patient information leaflets have come under criticism again recently. Theo Raynor explains the improvements that have been made to them and how they can be more useful for pharmacists during patient consultations.
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Saving my mother from depression using skills I learned in pharmacy
Amarata Gill explains how she used her pharmacy training to help her mother, who was suffering from depression.
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Negative back from health monitoring devices Subscription
Health is more than the sum of laboratory results and monitoring figures. In the same way, quality of life needs to reflect more than just observations.
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