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The Pharmaceutical Journal, December 22/29, 2001

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Christmas Miscellany
including
Christmas quiz
Prize Crossword [PDF* 35K]

Leading Article   
   Ending 2001 on a positive note [more]

News & Features   
   News (including news in brief)
   Focus on 2001 (One step forward and three steps back)

Broad Spectrum

Letters   
   Letters to the Editor

Original Papers   
   Community pharmacy support staff and their opinions on services for problem drug users in inner London
   »(PDF*, 75K)

   An analysis of off-licence prescribing in psychiatric medicine
   »(PDF*, 50K)

Meetings   
   Keele University department of medicines management [more]

Onlooker

The Society   
   News
   Official notices
   December Council meeting
   Obituaries & Tributes

Notice-board
   Branch meetings
   Future events
   Conferences
and more

Products


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Front Cover Picture
Our front cover picture, by Christopher Icha, portrays pharmacists who have excelled in fields outside the profession of pharmacy. They are featured in the first article in this year’s 33-page Christmas Miscellany. Included in the miscellany are a quiz and a prize crossword.

Audit Commission report
A newly published Audit Commission report says that pharmacists have a central role to play in managing medicines effectively in hospitals and need to be integrated into the clinical team.

Diabetes NSF
The first part of the National Service Framework for Diabetes has been published.

Community pharmacy support staff
Research published this week concludes that community pharmacy support staff play an important part in the management of drug misusers and that their role in this needs to be recognised.

Regulation of support staff
The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has decided to develop proposals on how to progress the regulation of support staff, as part of the regulatory reform of the Society as a whole. Please complete our survey.


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