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 Managing medicines safety alerts – new MHRA Central Alerting System
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By Sally-Anne Bowen
In Improving Compliance, MRHA News and Safety Alerts
Posted 7th January 2021

Managing medicines safety alerts – new MHRA Central Alerting System

Who issues medication safety alerts? The Medicines Healthcare Products and Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is responsible for issuing medication and medical device safety alerts. How are these [...]

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 Primary Care Networks – a new NHS initiative to improve care
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By Jack Bould
In Clinical Guidelines, Improving Compliance
Posted 24th October 2019

Primary Care Networks – a new NHS initiative to improve care

Local Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are being established by clinical commission groups (CCGs) to facilitate and encourage GP practices to work together in clusters with community, mental health, [...]

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 Complying with the Falsified Medicines Directive
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By Christian Hunt
In Improving Compliance, Pharmacy Information, Regulations and Standards, Simplifying Product Supply
Posted 7th February 2019

Complying with the Falsified Medicines Directive

The EU Falsified Medicines Directive (2011/62/EU) (FMD) was adopted by the UK in 2011 and will be implemented on 9th February 2019, when the Delegated Regulation on ‘safety features’ will be [...]

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 Important news about the Falsified Medicines Directive
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By Shannen Stevens
In Improving Compliance, Medicines Management Processes
Posted 16th November 2018

Important news about the Falsified Medicines Directive

The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) was discussed in the April 2018 edition of Ashtons Pharmacy News. This legislation will take effect from February 2019 and from this date most prescription [...]

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 Cyber Essentials certification – Ashtons takes protecting your data extremely seriously
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By Christian Hunt
In Improving Compliance, Regulations and Standards
Posted 29th August 2018

Cyber Essentials certification – Ashtons takes protecting your data extremely seriously

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) having come into effect on 25th May 2018, Ashtons, like many other companies, has been ensuring we are fully compliant with all new data [...]

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 237 million medication errors occur every year in the NHS
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By Graham Connolly
In Improving Compliance, Medicines Management Processes, Pharmacy Information
Posted 8th May 2018

237 million medication errors occur every year in the NHS

The Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU) has conducted a report on the ‘Prevalence and economic burden of medication errors in the NHS in England’, [...]

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 CQC substance misuse services briefing report
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By Graham Connolly
In Clinical Guidelines, Improving Compliance, Pharmacy Information
Posted 12th February 2018

CQC substance misuse services briefing report

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a briefing on substance misuse, which summarises the concerns it identified following the inspection of 68 residential detox services. Many of the [...]

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 Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Administration Record
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By Graham Connolly
In Improving Compliance, Medicines Management Processes, Simplifying Product Supply
Posted 5th December 2017

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Administration Record

Public Health England has highlighted the significantly higher rates of smoking among people with serious mental illness, which is 40.5% compared with 16.9% for the general adult population [...]

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 The results are in on our customer survey!
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By Graham Connolly
In Improving Compliance, Medicines Management Processes, New Ashtons Services
Posted 11th May 2017

The results are in on our customer survey!

Customer feedback is essential to Ashtons, ensuring our services are continuously evolving to fit the growing needs of healthcare organisations. We recently conducted our Annual Customer Survey [...]

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 A Competency Framework for prescribers
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By Graham Connolly
In Improving Compliance, Medicines Management Processes, Pharmacy Information, Regulations and Standards
Posted 3rd November 2016

A Competency Framework for prescribers

A new and updated Competency Framework to support healthcare professionals to prescribe effectively has been published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in conjunction with NICE. Medication has [...]

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