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NHS England announces relaunch of anti-smoking pill varenicline
Nov 12, 2024 · NHS England will relaunch ‘improved’ anti-smoking pill varenicline after withdrawal of a branded version in 2021. Varenicline, previously available as Champix, will be offered by pharmacy and council-led stop smoking services in England and is expected to help over 85,000 people try to stop smoking each year.
ARRS increases in line with Agenda for Change, NHS England …
Oct 3, 2024 · Increases to the reimbursable amounts for ARRS staff are in line with the 5.5% Agenda for Change pay increases announced earlier this year, NHS England has confirmed.. However, networks will need to find the money for these uplifts within their existing 2024/25 budgets, it added.
The 12 clinical questions of Christmas: A not-very-academic …
Dec 15, 2023 · 4 Because cataplexy – a total loss of muscular control, which can lead to collapse, is a possible feature of narcolepsy. And this is typically triggered by excitement (anticipation of cracker), noise (the bang of the cracker), laughter (the joke in the cracker) and anger (the annoyance and getting the duff end of the cracker).
Streeting confirms funding for GP ARRS jobs will continue past …
Oct 4, 2024 · Funding to hire GPs via the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) ‘will continue beyond March’ next year, the health secretary has confirmed.
Shingles jab should be extended to over-80s and younger ...
Nov 21, 2024 · The shingles vaccination programme should be expanded to adults over the age of 80 years, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended. In addition, all severely immunosuppressed adults aged 18 years and over should be eligible for the Shingrix jab, an update based on ...
HCRG Care Group to take over Operose and 60 GP practices
Dec 6, 2023 · HCRG Care Group – formerly known as Virgin Care – has agreed to buy Operose Health, which runs nearly 60 NHS GP practices across the UK. Pulse reported in August that US medical giant Centene, trading in the UK as Operose Health, was looking to sell its nearly 60 GP practices, as part of a move to exit the UK health market.. HCRG Care Group has confirmed to Pulse that it has agreed with ...
Long-awaited joint asthma guidance overhauls diagnostics and …
Jun 20, 2024 · Yet the committee noted there is wide variability on access to testing with many of those now recommended for both adults and children not available or routinely used. This includes FeNO equipment which is not available in some areas and no access to bronchial challenge testing for primary care.
'The best emollient is one the patient uses' - prescribing …
Mar 7, 2020 · The current situation. In 2018, the NHS Clinical Commissioners, an independent collective voice of CCGs, published their recommendations for ‘conditions for which over the counter items should not routinely be prescribed in primary care’. 1 This included advice that treatment should not normally be offered for the mild irritant dermatitis or mild dry skin.
EMIS and electronic prescriptions affected amid global IT outage
Jul 19, 2024 · Given my experience yesterday, I strongly suspect it is not an EMIS issue as such. I was in a meeting, with Teams, when Teams threw me out; insisted my browser did not support the web-version of Teams even whilst I was back in the meeting through the browser version; then refused to download the Teams app fresh from the Microsoft website – the download button was just doing nothing; then ...