University of Manchester - Archive (Pharmacy)
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2021
05
October
2021
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12:32
Europe/London
A campaign that urged GPs to ‘think-twice’ before putting a patient on opioid medicines is effective in reducing opioid prescribing in primary care, according to the findings of a major study.
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31
August
2021
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17:04
Europe/London
A study has revealed that 232 people could have died from taking an accidental overdose of prescription opioids in England between 2000 and 2015.
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27
May
2021
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07:56
Europe/London
A University of Manchester initiative which engages its students’ healthcare improvement work in hard to reach communities in the UK and beyond has come third in a prestigious international prize for global citizenship.
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2020
15
December
2020
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16:16
Europe/London
A study by University of Manchester epidemiologists and cofunded by the National Institute for Health Research Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (NIHR GM PSTRC)is the first to show stark differences in opioid prescribing...
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15
October
2020
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19:00
Europe/London
Prescriptions for the addictive drug codeine jumped by a factor of five between 2006 and 2017, a University of Manchester study of 2 million opioid users has shown.
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2019
02
December
2019
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13:59
Europe/London
A research team from the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, and UCL evaluating a service delivered by pharmacists since 2011 have calculated it will save the English NHS around £651 million.
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10
September
2019
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10:04
Europe/London
Community pharmacy staff are to be offered training on suicide prevention, based on findings from a new study published today. As a result, a first of its kind training video has been developed and will also be available from today to mark World Suic...
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18
March
2019
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13:29
Europe/London
The first evaluation of pharmacists based in accident and emergency departments has concluded that with additional clinical skills, they are able to take on overall clinical responsibility for patients.
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14
January
2019
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15:11
Europe/London
English patients living in poorer areas are likely to be prescribed more opioids by their GPs, according to a study led by University of Manchester and University of Nottingham researchers.
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2018
17
December
2018
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09:17
Europe/London
Potent synthetic opioid unknowingly used by people who use illicit drugs in England, new study finds
A small but significant minority of people who use illicit opioids such as heroin may unknowingly be using a powerful and potentially harmful synthetic opioid that has been linked to a number of deaths.
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2010
08
November
2010
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00:00
Europe/London
Professionalism teaching and learning needs to be integrated, grounded and longitudinal throughout all four years of the pharmacy curriculum, says a new University of Manchester study.
It should start from day one in year 1 and increase towards th...
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