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ANSWERS
Christmas quiz [PDF*
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Prize Crossword [PDF*
35K]
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Leading Article
And still the Queen cried "Faster! Faster!"
[more]
News & Features
News
(including news in brief)
At the peak of practice: a pharmacist in the hot seat
of a primary care trust [more]
Why 2002 started with a common cold [more]
Broad Spectrum
New year, new resolutions from us all [more]
Letters
Letters
to the Editor
Agenda for 2002
Primary care trust and local health group executive
committee pharmacists: the story so far
»(PDF*,
45K)
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Successful truss fitting
»(PDF*,
45K)
Original Papers
An investigation into the clinical risks in the use
of patients’ own drugs on surgical wards
»(PDF*,
75K)
Meetings
Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group/Royal Society
of Chemistry [more]
Health Action International/European Public Health Alliance
[more]
British Pharmaceutical Conference 2002
BPC to focus on diseases of older people
Call for papers and award applications
[more]
Onlooker
The Society
News
Obituaries
& Tributes
The Society's Modernisation programme:
How the Society got where it is today [more]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Products
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Front Cover Picture
For a large number of people in the United Kingdom the new year began
with a cold and many of them will have turned to a pharmacist for help.
Our front cover picture (Science Photo Library) illustrates a news
feature this week which finds out more about the common cold.
Infection control agency
The Government is to set up a National Infection Control and Health Protection
Agency as part
of its first infectious diseases strategy.
Patient group directions
PGDs are to be extended
to private hospitals, prisons, the police and armed forces.
Pharmacy involvement in primary care trusts
Pharmacists are becoming increasingly involved in decision making at a
primary care trust level. Neil Swanwick, chief executive of a PCT, is
interviewed in a news
feature this week (p50). An article in our Agenda for 2002 section
shares some of the experiences of pioneering primary care trust and local
health group executive committee pharmacists.
Use of patients' own drugs
Research from Staffordshire shows that most patients' own drugs appear
suitable for use in hospital but the potential for clinical risk is introduced
in many cases.
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