DSQS Training Requirements - Are Your Dispensers on the Right Course? The Dispensing Services Quality Scheme has been in place since 2006 and many dispensing doctors have already signed up to participate in this scheme with their respective PCTs. One of the key requirements of the DSQS is dispenser training. It is of paramount importance to ensure that your dispensers undertake the corre...
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Emergency Budget June 2010Emergency Budget June 2010 – A Summary by Cotton's Accountants - www.cottonsaccountants.co.ukGeorge Osborne opened his very own Pandora's Box today. We now have a clearer idea of his public expenditure cuts and tax changes. This update provides an initial summary of some of the tax changes. We will provide more detail as it becomes available. The upda...
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Losartan and Ropinirole Price Changes – July 2010 Drug Tariff Losartan 100mg/Hydrocholorthiazide 25mg was £16.18 now £7.22Losartan 50mg/Hydrocholorthiazide 12.5mg was £12.80 now £5.35Losartan 100mg was £16.18 now £4.64Losartan 12.5mg no change in priceLosartan 25mg was £16.18 now £4.53Losartan 50mg was £12.80 now &poun...
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News RoundupIMPORTANT DRUG TARIFF UPDATELercanidipine 10mg and 20mg tablets and Losartan 25mg, 50mg and 100mg tablets will be Category M from July 2010 and NOT Category A as published in the monthly Drug Tariff preface. Click here for more details.  Health Secretary Andrew Lansley sets out his ambitions for patient safety - click here for more details The NH...
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Remember Dispex members receive discounted rates on all of Surelines Ltd Controlled Drugs Registers click here for more details.Surelines Controlled Drug Registers have been used on TV and are widley used across the entire NHS and into private healthcare situations also.Call Surelines on 01604 859000 and speak with their publications department for further information....
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Dispex and Spirit Healthcare are supporting the National Diabetes Week by offering FREE sample meters to your diabetic patients to trial.  CareSens N blood glucose testing strips offers potentially massive savings to the NHS as their strips are approximately £2 cheaper per month to the NHS and where it is clinically appropriate for the patient to be self-testing it must make s...
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Improving Dispensary IncomeThis is a free educational evening meeting from Surelines Limited given by Nigel Morley one of the country's most experienced tutors on dispensing doctor dispensing.Date:1st July 2010Venue:Longhirst Hall, Morpeth, NorthumberlandSpeaker:Nigel Morley Call Surelines on 01604 859000 if interested in booking a place....
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Pulse reports that the Government has called a halt to the rollout of the revalidation program and Andrew Lansley has ordered that pilots be extended until 2012.Click here to read the full story....
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A report into prescription charge exemption for those with long term conditions which was lead by Professor Ian Gilmore has been published today.The document can be read by clicking here.Further comment has been made here by Onmedica - any changes to the prescription charge will be delayed until the Autmn....
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