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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7196
4 May 2002

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Leading Articles   
   Opportunities knock [more]
  
News & Features   
   News

   Local pharmaceutical services: a new threat or an opportunity for pharmacy? [more]

   To switch or not: pharmacists' opinions [more]

Letters   

   Letters to the Editor

Broad Spectrum   

   How others see pharmacy — an unsung community and health care resource [more]

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   
      Get to grips with obesity
   (1) Incidence and associated risks
    »(PDF*, 65K)

Agenda for 2002   
   How to make the most of the opportunities provided by the Budget
    »(PDF*, 45K)

Article
   
  Prescribing of long-term oxygen therapy — striking a balance?
    »(PDF*, 70K)

Original papers   
  
Integrating community pharmacy and NHS Direct — pharmacists' views
    »(PDF*, 60K)

Meetings and Conferences   
  Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice [more]

Onlooker   
   The English Ovid /
   Grim prospect /
   Roots of violence /
   "Yet fear I to fall" [more]

The Society   
   News
   Obituaries
   May cumulative list of amendments

   Official Notices
   Annual general meeting [more]
   Council voting papers [more]
   Statutory Committee decisions [more]

Notice-board
   Branch meetings
   Future events
   Conferences
and more

Products
Announcements


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Front Cover Picture
This week's front cover picture (by Christopher Icha/Sam Arr-Jones) represents how the various components of continuing professional development are closely intermeshed. The Journal is changing the format of its CPD articles in order to incorporate the principles of the CPD cycle. In addition, it is offering 500 pharmacists the opportunity to participate in a pilot scheme in which their CPD will be accredited by the College of Pharmacy Practice free of charge

Interferon beta
Researchers in Italy say that interferon beta-1b administered every other day is more effective than weekly interferon beta-1a

Guidance on LPS contracts
Guidance has been issued by the Department of Health on local pharmaceutical services contracts. In a news feature, Jonathan Buisson reports on whether LPS represents a threat or an opportunity for community pharmacy

POM-to-P switches
A news feature reports on pharmacists' opinions about the POM-to-P overhaul announced earlier this year

NHS Direct
Research from the University of Sheffield has shown that community pharmacists welcome their increasing involvement in the developing immediate care system (PDF* 60K)


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