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Leading Article
Pharmacy at the centre of patient safety [more]
Funding fiasco [more]
News & Features
News
Leading role for pharmacists to reduce drug errors and
improve patient safety [more]
Funding lottery for hospital training [more]
Pharmacy Assistant of the Year 2001 [more]
Broad Spectrum
Getting to grips with modernisation [more]
Letters
Letters
to the Editor
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
How to manage stress at work
»(PDF*,
55K)
Original Papers
The first 18 months of primary care groups: pharmaceutical
implications
»(PDF*,
60K)
Pharmacist’s input into a palliative care clinic
»(PDF*,
60K)
Onlooker
Taking a chance with fungi/
Aux armes, citoyens!/
Pill colour may determine outcome [more]
The Society
News
Law and Ethics Bulletin
Safe storage of methadone in the home /
Retention of private prescriptions [more]
Community Pharmacists Group
Concern over application of clinical governance in community
practice [more]
Obituaries
and Tributes
Official Notices
Hospital Pharmacists Group election [more]
Scottish Executive election [more]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
Health promotion
diary
and more
Products
Announcements
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Front Cover Picture
This week's front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates a news
feature that examines the progress of the National Patient Safety
Agency and finds that pharmacists are to take a leading role in its work.
Leading article
(p384).
Trastuzumab approved
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has approved trastuzumab
for women with HER2
positive breast cancer.
Pay rise agreed for hospital pharmacists
The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has agreed
a 3.6 per cent pay rise for hospital pharmacists.
Postregistration training
A news feature
investigates the difficulties experienced by hospital pharmacists in England
in the funding of postregistration education and training (p393).
Comment (p384).
Stress management
A continuing professional development article offers advice on how to
recognise and manage stress at work.
Palliative care
Research from Chesterfield indicates that a pharmacist can play a valuable
role as a key member of the multidisciplinary palliative care team.
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