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News & Features
News
Managing drug shortages in the NHS [more]
Benefits of recording interventions [more]
Comment
Broad Spectrum: Who represents local pharmacists in
the new NHS? [more]
Letters
to the Editor
Continuing Education
An update on risk factors for vascular disease
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Features
Pensions planning: A quiet revolution and What is a
stakeholder pension?
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55K)
Articles
Where have all the medicines
gone? [more]
Proposals for enhancing the role of the community pharmacist
[more]
Meetings & Conferences
GHP Procurement and Distribution Interest Group [more]
Welsh Executive Annual Lecture [more]
Onlooker
The Society
News
Statutory committee
Obituaries
& tributes
Notice-board
Series index
updated
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
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Front Cover Picture
Our front cover picture of a medicine production facility ties in
with items this week relating to medicine shortages. An article
examines the reasons for these shortages and, in a news
feature, Harriet Adcock looks at how the National Health Service manages
them.
Cerivastatin withdrawn
Cerivastatin is to be withdrawn world-wide because of safety
concerns.
Interventions
Zoë Gross reports
on how keeping intervention records can enhance the recognition of the
pharmacist’s role and assist in patient care.
Vascular disease
Our continuing education article this week provides an update for pharmacists
on the risk factors for vascular disease.
Role enhancement
The Adam Smith Institute has been developing a blueprint for the reform
of British health care. Its proposals for the community pharmaceutical
service are outlined in an article.
Pensions planning
Our special feature looks at stakeholder pensions and developments in
pensions planning.
Retention fee increase
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is to seek a 31 per cent increase in
members’ retention
fees in 2002. Leading
article.
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