Archive for 2010


“More Flexible” Membership of ACMD


Sunday, December 19th, 2010

The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill includes measures (in part 4) to remove the statutory requirement on the Secretary of State to appoint members of the Advisory Committee on Misuse of Drugs with experience in specified activities.The ACMD must currently include at least one person with wide and recent experience in each of six specified activities – medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry and chemistry – and persons with wide and recent experience of social problems connected with the misuse of drugs. Written evidence is now being invited. The Bill also proposes a new power for the Secretary of State to temporarily control a substance as a CD for up to one year by statutory instrument.

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Legal Framework for Liberated NHS Published


Sunday, December 19th, 2010

A white paper (Cm7993) setting out the legal framework and next steps to implement the Liberating the NHS programme has been published. It is designed to be read in conjunction with the 2011/12 NHS operating framework and PCT funding allocations. Underpinning law will be set out in a new Health and Social Care Bill to be introduced early in 2011.

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OHPA to go


Sunday, December 5th, 2010

The DH has published its response following consultation on fitness to practise adjudication for health professionals. It will continue with its preferred option of abolishing the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator and continue modernising the disciplinary processes of the GMC and other health regulators.

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Public Health White Paper Published


Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

A White Paper “Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England” sets out the Government’s long-term plans to give local public health leadership and responsibility to local government. A new dedicated service – Public Health England – will be established under the provisions of the latest Health and Social Care Bill, expected to be enacted in April 2012. Consultation closes 8th March 2011.

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MHRA Informal Consultation on Regulatory Burden


Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

A further informal consultation, as part of the review and consolidation of medicines regulations, has been issued by the MHRA. This includes opportunities to respond on reducing regulatory burdens, on the pharmacy exemption for wholesaling and revisions of sections 64, 85 and 86 in relation to dispensing errors. Consultation closes on 22nd December 2010.

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Consultation on Medicines from Podiatrists


Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

The MHRA is consulting (MLX 372) on proposals for amendments to the range of medicines that can be supplied by podiatrists and to revoke the exemption from licensing for unlicensed herbal remedies. Consultation closes on 17th January 2011

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GPhC Consults: Pharmacist Education and CPD


Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

The General Pharmaceutical Council has issued consultations on the following:
1. Standards for the initial education of pharmacists (for students studying in Great Britain)
2. Standards for education and training requirements for non-EEA pharmacists wanting to register in Great Britain
3. A new accreditaion methodology for courses leading to registration and annotation as a pharmacist in Great Britain
4. Draft Continuing Professional Development framework and Rules
All consultations close on 7th February 2011

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NHS Consultation on Health Information


Friday, October 22nd, 2010

A further consultation under the “Liberating the NHS” programme has been issued seeking views on the way information is accessed, collected, analysed and used so that people are at the heart of health and adult social care services. Consultation closes on 14th January 2011.

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NHS Consultation on Choice and Control


Friday, October 22nd, 2010

A further consultation under the White Paper “Liberating the NHS” has been issued seeking views on how to offer patients more choice, promote shared decision making, how the “any willing provider” tool will work and how to make safe and sutainable choices. Consultation closes on 14 January 2011

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New Legislation Website


Friday, October 22nd, 2010

The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website now takes you to a new website for all UK legislation. It can be searched on specific year, SI number or legislation titles as well as the more familiar type of law and year groupings and provides an update on new legislation each day.

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