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Front Cover Picture
Our front cover picture (Simon Fraser/Science Photo
Library) is a coloured angiogram showing a severe stenosis of the left
coronary artery.The picture draws attention to the publication this week
of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence clinical practice guideline
for the secondary care of patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction
(p567). Comment
(p563).
Disbarment from practice?
The Health and Social Care Bill would give new powers to health authorities
that could mean that pharmacists struck from the Register of Pharmaceutical
Chemists might never practise again, even after they have been restored
to the register by the Statutory Committee (p564).
Code of Ethics
The fully revised Code of Ethics published this week (pp589–96)
will be presented for adoption at the forthcoming annual general meeting.
Medicines management in secondary care
A team from North Staffordshire Hospital, comprising the director of pharmacy,
the consultant clinical pharmacologist and the hospital chief executive,
has developed a comprehensive system for managing prescribing in a large
acute trust (p585). Comment (p563).
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