�The Irish Medicines Formulary (IMF), Edition 4, has now been published and distributed to registered GPs in fulltime recitation in Ireland.
Since it was starting time published in February 2007, IMF continues to produce to meet the inevitably of Irish healthcare professionals. A major innovation in Edition 4 is the inclusion of Illness Definitions. Every dose in IMF Edition 4 has a licensed indication and each indication now carries a concise aesculapian definition, providing additional data for medical students, pharmacists and nursing professionals.
Another new addition to IMF Edition 4 is the inclusion by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) of their Quality Defect Report Card (green card) in addition to the IMB Adverse Event Report Cards (yellow card game). The Quality Defect Report card is of particular importance to pharmacists world Health Organization either lineament detect defects when dispensing, or when patients return defective products.
IMF Edition 4 besides now includes a page in the Clinical Utilities section explaining the pricing mechanism for prescription drugs in Ireland whether reimbursed or for private patients, and outlines the statistical distribution chain and the assorted price points (ex-factory, wholesale, trade, retail). This section also contains treatment guidelines and algorithms, herbal drug interaction tables, a body-surface area calculating machine and CVS risk charts.
2789 dose prices cause been revised in IMF Edition 4 to secure users get access to meaningful practical prices (PCRS-reimbursed price or, for non-reimbursed products, business deal price). Feedback from practicing GPs confirmed that these price points were more useful than ex-factory pricing. Finally, over 700 SPCs (Summary of Product Characteristics), new or with a new rewrite date, were reviewed resulting in barely over 1300 revisions beingness made to the IMF database since Edition 3.
IMF Edition 4 can be purchased on-line at www.pharmacopeia.ie or by contacting the publisher, Meridian Ireland, Tel/Fax: (01)-8390073 or email: formulary@meridianireland.com
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Thursday 21 August 2008
Monday 11 August 2008
Son Seals
Artist: Son Seals
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Lettin' Go
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Spontaneous Combustion
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Midnight Son
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Living in the Danger Zone
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
It all started with a sound call from Wesley Race, world Health Organization was at the Flamingo Club on Chicago's South Side, to Alligator Records proprietor Bruce Iglauer. Race was raving near a new feel, a lester Willis Young guitarist named Son Seals. He held the sound in the way of the bandstand, so Iglauer could get an on-site newspaper. It didn't take foresightful for Iglauer to scramble into action at law. Alligator issued Seals' eponymic debut record album in 1973, which was followed by sestet more.
Son Seals was born Frank Seals on August 13, 1942 in Osceola, Arkansas. His pop operated a juke joint called the Dipsy Doodle Club in Osceola where Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, and Albert King cavorted upfront while little Frank listened intently in back. Drums were the youth's first base instrument; he played them behind Nighthawk at age 13. But by the sentence he was 18, Son Seals sour his talents to guitar, fronting his possess band in Little Rock.
While visiting his sister in Chicago, he aquiline up with Earl Hooker's Roadmasters in 1963 for a few months, and on that point was a 1966 erolia minutilla with Albert King that sent him behind the drumkit once more than. But with the dying of his don in 1971, Seals returned to Chicago, this sentence for effective. When Alligator gestural him up, his days fronting a banding at the Flamingo Club and the Expressway Lounge were numbered.
Seals' jaggy, inflexible guitar riffs and gruff vocals were showcased very effectively on that 1973 debut determine, which contained his "Your Love Is like a Cancer" and a hot subservient called "Live Sauce." Midnight Son, his 1976 encore, was by comparison a practically trickster amour, with close horns, funkier grooves, and a set list that included "Telephone set Angel" and "On My Knees." Seals LP in 1978 at Wise Fools Pub; some other studio concoction, Chicago Fire, in 1980, and a solid sic in 1984, Bad Axe, before having a disagreement with Iglauer that that was patched up in 1991 with the departure of his sixth Alligator set, Living in the Danger Zone. Zippo But the Truth followed in 1994, sporting some of the worst cover nontextual matter in CD account, just a stinging card of songs inside. Another unrecorded disc, Self-generated Combustion, was recorded at Buddy Guy's Legends club and released in June of 1996. Over the years, Seals had his share of hardship, bad deals, unemployment, and rip-offs that go on in the medicine business. However, his personal life took 2 crushing blows in the late '90s. On January 5, 1997, during a domestic dispute, Seals was shot in the yack away by his late mate. He miraculously recovered and continued touring. Two years later he had his left wing stage amputated as a result of diabetes. What would induce certainly forced almost performers into retirement only made Seals more dedicated to his euphony and audience. He came back in 2000, sign language with Telarc Blues, and recorded Lettin' Go. Seals preferent to remain close to his Chicago home, retention his touring itinerary to an sheer lower limit. Virtually every weekend he could be base somewhere on the Northside blues circuit, dishing up his raw-edged brand of bad blues ax to local followers. The blues complete for Son Seals on December 20, 2004; he passed aside due to diabetes related to complications.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
July 2008 National Pharmacy Association Board Meeting, UK
�NPA (National Pharmacy Association) Chairman, Paul Bennett, comments on some of the items discussed at the July 2008 board meeting:
1 NPA Strategic Purpose
"The NPA exists to serve members. Our purpose is to represent, support and protect the interests of all community pharmacy owners across the UK. The Board was pleased to endorse the vision defined by the Chief Executive of a membership body that will "serve to lead". Over the coming weeks and months the Associations activities will centre on fashioning that visual modality a world through potent representation and innovative support services. I look ahead to sharing the details of the programme with our members very shortly."
2 Minor Ailments Scheme in Northern Ireland
"The Board was gravely concerned by the approach interpreted by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland with wish to the roll knocked out of a national minor ailments strategy. Our colleagues in PCC have presented entirely sensible proposals to the Government with regard to the scheme that have been rejected without explanation.
It is not often that pharmacy bares its teeth - merely this situation requires a clear, unambiguous position. The PCC and UCA sustain called upon this system to support the resolution already carried by their members. The unanimous response of this Board is to recommend that all NPA members withdraw from the minor ailments scheme in Northern Ireland with immediate issue. It is my sincere hope that this action will gad the Department to rejoin to the negotiating table so that patients and the public in the Province toilet benefit from this avail."
3 PIP codification
"The NPA and CMPMedica are partners in the PIP computer code project that provides the data spine to much of the electronic communication in pharmacy systems. This Board believes the benefit of having a exclusive dataset for pharmacy electronic communications is an asset to be coveted in which chemist's shop should invest. We ar aware that recent changes in the structure and pricing by CMPMedica have caused headache amongst NPA members. I have consequently asked the NPA to work in partnership with CMPMedica to improve communication of the changes and benefits of this important project to NPA members."
4 Chris Jenkins - modern Board phallus for Wales
"I would like to receive our newest Board Member, Chris, to his first Board coming together in Mallinson House. We are always open to fresh thought process and new ideas and I am thankful for the part Chris has made over the iI days. I have no doubt that the get and insight that Chris has as an independent contractor in a rural constituency will ensure we are inclusive of the concerns of NPA members in a similar situation."
5 Pharmacy White Paper - a collaborative approach
"I was pleased to report to my young man Board Members that a spirit of collaboration between the chemist's shop bodies has underpinned the approach that will be taken with regard to the Pharmacy White Paper, an approaching that will benefit the profession generally and NPA members specifically. This approach path has delivered another dividend - we are now seeing a coming together of views on the Electronic Prescription Service in England."
6 NPA Response to PSNC and DDA joint statement
"The NPA remains broadly supportive of the proposals with wish to dispensing doctors contained within the Pharmacy White Paper. The NPA is clear that this issue is a matter that needs to be resolved between the representatives of dispensing doctors and the Department of Health. The Board awaits the audience promised by the Department with respect to 100 hour contracts, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors where we will give the proposals on each our full thoughtfulness."
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1 NPA Strategic Purpose
"The NPA exists to serve members. Our purpose is to represent, support and protect the interests of all community pharmacy owners across the UK. The Board was pleased to endorse the vision defined by the Chief Executive of a membership body that will "serve to lead". Over the coming weeks and months the Associations activities will centre on fashioning that visual modality a world through potent representation and innovative support services. I look ahead to sharing the details of the programme with our members very shortly."
2 Minor Ailments Scheme in Northern Ireland
"The Board was gravely concerned by the approach interpreted by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland with wish to the roll knocked out of a national minor ailments strategy. Our colleagues in PCC have presented entirely sensible proposals to the Government with regard to the scheme that have been rejected without explanation.
It is not often that pharmacy bares its teeth - merely this situation requires a clear, unambiguous position. The PCC and UCA sustain called upon this system to support the resolution already carried by their members. The unanimous response of this Board is to recommend that all NPA members withdraw from the minor ailments scheme in Northern Ireland with immediate issue. It is my sincere hope that this action will gad the Department to rejoin to the negotiating table so that patients and the public in the Province toilet benefit from this avail."
3 PIP codification
"The NPA and CMPMedica are partners in the PIP computer code project that provides the data spine to much of the electronic communication in pharmacy systems. This Board believes the benefit of having a exclusive dataset for pharmacy electronic communications is an asset to be coveted in which chemist's shop should invest. We ar aware that recent changes in the structure and pricing by CMPMedica have caused headache amongst NPA members. I have consequently asked the NPA to work in partnership with CMPMedica to improve communication of the changes and benefits of this important project to NPA members."
4 Chris Jenkins - modern Board phallus for Wales
"I would like to receive our newest Board Member, Chris, to his first Board coming together in Mallinson House. We are always open to fresh thought process and new ideas and I am thankful for the part Chris has made over the iI days. I have no doubt that the get and insight that Chris has as an independent contractor in a rural constituency will ensure we are inclusive of the concerns of NPA members in a similar situation."
5 Pharmacy White Paper - a collaborative approach
"I was pleased to report to my young man Board Members that a spirit of collaboration between the chemist's shop bodies has underpinned the approach that will be taken with regard to the Pharmacy White Paper, an approaching that will benefit the profession generally and NPA members specifically. This approach path has delivered another dividend - we are now seeing a coming together of views on the Electronic Prescription Service in England."
6 NPA Response to PSNC and DDA joint statement
"The NPA remains broadly supportive of the proposals with wish to dispensing doctors contained within the Pharmacy White Paper. The NPA is clear that this issue is a matter that needs to be resolved between the representatives of dispensing doctors and the Department of Health. The Board awaits the audience promised by the Department with respect to 100 hour contracts, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors where we will give the proposals on each our full thoughtfulness."
National Pharmacy Association Ltd
http://www.npa.co.uk
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