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Category: Clinical

Infection

Strength in numbers: Reviewing UTI antibiotic prophylaxis across a GP cluster

Context Continuing antibiotics for prophylaxis of urinary tract infections (UTIs) after six months has limited benefit. ...

26 Jun 2024

Respiratory

Challenging prescribing behaviours of LAMA and SAMA inhaled therapies

Background Co-prescribing of long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMA) and short-acting-muscarinic antagonists (SAMA) ar...

14 Jun 2024

discussion amongst healthcare professionals

Oncology

How does self-efficacy affect treatment adherence in patients with renal cancer?

Background Renal cancer is the 6th most common cancer in the UK. Survival rates for renal cancer have sig...

05 Jun 2024

Critical Care

Do ICUs adhere to new peripheral vasopressors guidelines?

Background In response to Intensive Care Society (ICS) recommendations in 2020, an NHS Trust amended their per...

31 May 2024

discussion between senior pharmacist and Junior pharmacist

Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Does switching to subcutaneous vedolizumab affect remission rates for inflammatory bowel disease?

Background Vedolizumab is an effective treatment option for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), usually administered intr...

23 May 2024

Medicines safety

Do guidelines and protocols improve teicoplanin prescribing?

Context Teicoplanin prescribing practices were inconsistent and prone to unnoticed errors before the introduction of Ele...

17 May 2024

Genomics

Key points of the NHS England strategy to develop the pharmacy genomic workforce

Rapid advances in genomic testing are enabling a transition from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to prescribing to a more...

14 May 2024

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Critical Care

Medication transcription errors between critical care and general wards

Background Recent studies have shown that up to 80% of patients discharged from critical care encounter problems wi...

09 May 2024

Medicines safety

Staffing time saved through automated medicines storage

Context The Scan4Safety initiative aimed to improve patient safety, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs with...

01 May 2024

Genomics

5 core concepts of genomics that pharmacy teams need to know

The UKCPA Genomics community was formed in 2022 to bring together pharmacy professionals with an interest in t...

19 Apr 2024

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