{"id":469,"date":"2011-12-02T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=469"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:14:51","slug":"news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/12\/02\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-5\/","title":{"rendered":"News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palliativedrugs.com\/\">www.palliativedrugs.com<\/a>, the world\u2019s leading palliative care website.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NPC guide to prescribing specials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK National Prescribing Centre (NPC) has produced a good practice guide to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npc.nhs.uk\/improving_safety\/prescribing_specials\/resources\/5_guiding_priciples.pdf\">prescribing specials<\/a> <\/span>which includes a quick practical checklist for prescribers (appendix 2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consultations on independent prescribing for physiotherapists and podiatrists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK Department of Health (DH) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have jointly launched two public consultations concerning proposals for independent prescribing for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/en\/Consultations\/Liveconsultations\/DH_129983\">physiotherapists<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/en\/Consultations\/Liveconsultations\/DH_129981\">podiatrists<\/a>. Both consultations close 8 December 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>End of Life Care strategy annual report <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK Department of Health (DH) has published the third annual report of the End of Life Care strategy. For more information <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dh.gov.uk\/en\/Publicationsandstatistics\/Publications\/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance\/DH_130239\">click here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prepared by Sarah Charlesworth and Andrew Wilcock<\/em><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world\u2019s leading palliative care website. Latest news NPC guide to prescribing specials The UK National Prescribing Centre (NPC) has produced a good practice guide to prescribing specials which includes a quick practical checklist for prescribers (appendix 2). Consultations on independent prescribing for physiotherapists [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2011\/12\/02\/news-and-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com-5\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-from-www-palliativedrugs-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}