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Leading Articles
Good news, we hope [more]
News & Features
News
(and News in brief)
Spending on medicines: how guidance and promotion drive
cost increases
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50K)
How other health professions are coping with the regulatory
reforms (2) [more]
Letters
Letters
to the Editor
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD)
Diabetes: (3) Antidiabetic agents
»(PDF*,
50K)
Article
Assessing the relative safety of domiciliary oxygen delivery
systems
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85K)
Anthropology can benefit pharmacy [more]
Meetings
North East London LPCs Conference [more]
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America [more]
Onlooker
Pharmacien malgré lui /
Dismal outlook /
Diagnosing Dickens [more]
The Society
News
April Council meeting [more]
Branch representatives' meeting
[more]
Official Notices
Annual general meeting [more]
Byelaw changes: revised announcement [more]
Statutory Committee inquiries [more]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Products
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Front Cover Picture
The Department of Health has released a detailed breakdown of where the
£6.1bn spent on medicines dispensed in the community went last year.
Our front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates a news feature
(PDF*,
50K) that looks at some of the influences at work.
Supplementary prescribing
The start of a consultation
period on supplementary prescribing by pharmacists and nurses was announced
this week. If proposals are implemented, pharmacists could be writing
prescriptions next year.
See also Leading
article.
NICE endorses costly inhaler devices
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has endorsed the use of
costly inhaler
devices for children if good asthma control is more likely to be achieved.
Regulatory reform
The second part of our news
feature on how other health professions are coping with regulatory
reform looks at the impact of changes on doctors, dentists and opticians.
Domiciliary oxygen
The nature of the fire risks posed by various oxygen delivery devices
available for domiciliary use are considered in an article (PDF*,
85K).
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