Front Cover Picture
This week's front cover photograph (by Christopher Woods) is of the building at 90 Long Acre in London's Covent Garden, where the National Institute for Clinical Excellence has its headquarters. This week we publish an article in which the structure and processes of the NICE are comprehensively described (p869).
Category D threshold
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Department of Health have agreed to cut the stock threshold for Drug Tariff Category D items from four weeks' to two weeks' supply (p842).
First online pharmacy
Britain's first internet pharmacy went live on November 22 (p849). Leading article (p841).
Long-term HRT
In the last article in our continuing education series on the menopause, the long-term implications for women taking hormone replacement therapy are discussed (p862).
Credit for Learning
This week we publish Credit for Learning questions on our menopause series (p868).
UKCPA symposium
We report this week on the proceedings of the autumn symposium of the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association, which took place in Blackpool recently (p877).
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