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Scottish Health Commentary

Community pharmacy prescribing in Scotland

7th June 2019 by PIP editor 1 Comment

Sam Falconer talks about community pharmacy prescribing in Scotland, the need for more funding and hope for the future

Filed Under: Pharmacy practice, PIP Podcasts, Podcast 3, Scotland, Scottish Health Commentary Tagged With: community pharmacist, community pharmacy, community pharmacy Scotland, future, future of pharmacy, independent prescribing, Pharmacist prescribing, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland

What can Scotland learn from British Columbia’s approach to overdose deaths?

5th June 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

  Part of the answer to mounting drugs-related deaths in Scotland lies in grassroots charities, community groups and experts with lived experience taking a lead role, a Canadian substance use researcher says.   Professor Bernie Pauly of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research was in Scotland last week to speak at a Dundee harm reduction […]

Filed Under: Opinion, Scottish Health Commentary Tagged With: Canada, community pharmacy Scotland, Drug addiction, drugs, harm reduction, illegal drugs, Overdose, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, Scotland, Scotland health

Pharmacy Anywhere’s Highland success

4th June 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

  “We started with a problem”, Clare Morrison, who is clinical health lead at NHS Highland, explains. “NHS Highland is a remote and rural health board, it covers 40% of the landmass of Scotland yet only has 8% of the population so it is a large area which is sparsely populated, and this really brings a couple […]

Filed Under: Digital health, Pharmacy practice, Scotland, Scottish Health Commentary Tagged With: community pharmacy, Digital health, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, remote working, Scotland, Scottish pharmacy, tech

Why the public should be health data research partners

4th June 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley on what the public has to offer health data research.   Big data looms large in every part of our lives – and health is no different. Using data from the NHS and other sources, scientists can monitor drug safety, improve patient wellbeing and look for connections between behaviour and health outcomes. […]

Filed Under: Scottish Health Commentary Tagged With: AI, big data, didgital, Digital health, Health, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, Scotland

In data we trust: The changing face of Scottish healthcare

3rd June 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

  Recent developments in the Scottish health data landscape.   While it seems unlikely the words of British economist, Ronald Coase, will ever lose their relevance in politics – “torture the data, and it will confess to anything” – we are in an age where the mantra that “data is king” is spreading.   The […]

Filed Under: Scotland, Scottish Health Commentary Tagged With: AI, Data, furture, pharmacy in practice, Pharmacy in Practice Scotland, Scotland, Scottish commentary

Scottish community pharmacy financial package announced

25th April 2019 by PIP editor Leave a Comment

This week the Scottish Government have confirmed the 2019/2020 financial package for community pharmacy. The settlement has now been put in place on a 1-year community pharmacy funding package to cover the financial year 2019-20.   Highlights of the 2019-20 settlement include the following:   The remuneration Global Sum will be reset for 2019-20 at […]

Filed Under: Community pharmacy news, News, Scotland, Scottish Health Briefings, Scottish Health Commentary, Scottish Politics Tagged With: community pharmacy, future, pharmacy, Scotland, Scottish Government

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