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LOCAL LAD SCORES BIG IN LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CHALLENGE
ROB Lamont,
who plays football for Woodlyn in Southport, put his football skills
to good use this weekend as he beat hundreds of aspiring Merseyside
footballers in a challenge at JJB Sports, Aintree.
The Challenge was held to celebrate the launch of the revolutionary
new Concave football boots and invited customers to test their kick
speed in the radar-timed Concave Kicker Tube. The impressive top
speed of 57 miles per hour was set early on and stood all day until
16 year old Rob stepped up and smashed the score in the last minute
of the of the day and on his 1st strike achieved a phenomenal 61
miles per hour! Rob beat over 200 other hopefuls to take the
title in his age category and will no doubt be a force to be
reckoned with in the Sunday League once players and managers hear
about his powerful strike!
The groundbreaking new Concave football boots have just hit the
shelves at JJB Sports; customers who visited the store in Aintree on
Saturday were amongst the 1st people in the country to try the
revolutionary boots and measure their power and accuracy against the
radar gun in the Concave Kicker Tube. Following the Liverpool
launch, the Concave Kicker Tube will now be travelling throughout
the country to challenge the rest of the UK to beat the high
standards set by the footie mad Liverpool public. |
NURSING HOME PRESCRIBING REMAINS A CAUSE FOR
CONCERN
RESEARCH
launched at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in
Manchester has shown that 51% of nursing home patients are taking
inappropriate psychoactive drugs. A separate study at BPC describes
how inappropriate prescribing of psychoactive drugs may be
influenced by organisational and/or treatment culture.
Historically, psychotropic medications have been used in nursing
homes to sedate the residents, when there is no clinical need. 2
pharmacy studies in Northern Ireland have focused on these drugs.
Researchers investigated the effect of implementing an adapted US
model of pharmaceutical care, “The Fleetwood Northern Ireland (NI)
model”, to evaluate its effect on the number of residents who
received inappropriate psychoactive medication and the number who
had a fall. While application of the Fleetwood NI Model led to
a 74% decrease in the number of residents who received inappropriate
psychoactive medications in intervention homes, there was no effect
on the number of residents who experienced a fall. This may be
attributed to the fact that falls are influenced by multiple
factors.
Lead Fleetwood NI Model researcher, Susan Patterson, said:-
“In nursing homes, our study indicated that there is a 51%
prevalence of inappropriate prescribing. This is a known risk factor
for adverse drug events for elderly residents. These results support
previous work carried out in Canada showing a prevalence of 55%.
Pharmacists are the experts in medicines and they have a significant
role to play in terms of finding and championing innovations that
reduce risks for patients. The Fleetwood NI project has demonstrated
that pharmacist intervention can reduce medication risks for nursing
home residents and improve the quality of prescribing.”
In the 2nd study, staff from 2 nursing homes were interviewed about
prescribing and how it might be influenced by organisational
culture. The latter has been defined by some experts as ‘the
way we do things around here’. They perceived that
psychoactive drugs might be prescribed during times of staff
shortages, and could be seen as a way of keeping the residents calm
and “to make life easier” in some homes.
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