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Discussing the MMR vaccine with patients Subscription
As outlined in Public Health England’s ‘UK Measles and Rubella elimination strategy’, MMR vaccination needs to improve to achieve and maintain elimination in line with recommendations from the World Health Organization.
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NICE must provide patient decision aids if the tools are to become part of routine practice Subscription
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’ — sets 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 pharmacists can encourage patient adherence to medicines Audio Subscription
This article outlines how community pharmacists can play an important role in medicines adherence, including examples of how to reinforce treatment.
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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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Smoking cessation services: how nicotine replacement therapy and counselling through pharmacy can support adherence and quitting Subscription
Smoking is the primary cause of preventable ill health and death in the UK. Pharmacists and pharmacy teams are well placed to provide stop-smoking services, which are cost-effective interventions to help people give up smoking.
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