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Leading Article
Reporting near misses
Stand by your beds
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Pharmacy-based head lice management [more]
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Broad Spectrum: More pharmacists, not delegation, is
the key to the future of pharmacy [more]
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and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FIP) [more]
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (Dr Jeremy Burgess/SPL) is a
false-colour scanning electron micrograph of a human head louse clinging
to human hair. It illustrates a news
feature on head lice management schemes in community pharmacy.
Pharmacists’ interventions
Pharmacists’ prescribing interventions should be recorded as evidence
of near miss medical errors, according to the report
of a clinical governance review carried out on behalf of the Commission
for Health Improvement.
Leading article.
Pharmacy inspections
Government proposals for increasing public involvement in the National
Health Service in England and Wales include the replacement of community
health councils by local patients’ forums with the power to inspect
the premises of pharmacy contractors.
Leading article.
FIP congress
The World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the 61st Congress
of the International Pharmaceutical Federation, opened in Singapore on
2 September. Our coverage
begins this week with reports of the opening session, a meeting on the
role of the pharmacist in AIDS prevention and treatment, a symposium on
Far Eastern medicine, and a science symposium address on progress in the
medicinal use of cannabis.
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