| Leading
Articles [PDF
(50K)]
Slow start for Department's schemes [Text]
Send a postcard home [Text]
News & Features
News [Text]
[PDF
(200K)]
Department of Health speeds up ETP assessments as pilots
make slow start [Text]
[PDF (150K)]
Broad Spectrum
Is the "sick role" still relevant today? [Text]
[PDF
(35K)]
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(55K)]
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD summary page
Herbal therapeutics
(6) Benign prostatic hyperplasia [PDF
(65K)]
Original Papers
Number of patient contacts undertaken during extended
opening hours at a community pharmacy [PDF
(55K)]
Meetings and Conferences
Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical
Industry [Text] [PDF
(45K)]
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(55K)]
Born to consume / Making children violent / Saint of
the knives
The Society
News
Implementing the CPD programme [Text]
[PDF
(40K)]
Council welcomes observers from branches in England,
Scotland, Wales and Channel Islands [Text]
Statutory Committee [Text]
• Failure to observe conditions after dispensing
errors leads to striking off
• Pharmacist reprimanded for dispensing and
CD errors
• Reprimand follows convictions for CD offences
Modernisation programme
What will the Council look like in the future? More points
for comment [Text]
Questionnaire: Who should be eligible to serve on Council
and for how long? [survey]
Modernisation of the Society should give no cause for
concern (1) [Text]
[PDF
(35K)]
Letter: There is no conspiracy on modernisation [Text]
Obituaries & tributes [Text]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Products [Text]
[PDF
(55K)]
Announcements [Text]
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Front Cover Picture
The Department of Health wants to see the three pilot schemes for electronic
transmission of prescriptions in England completed by the end of November.
This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates
our news feature,
which looks at the progress made to date in the pilot sites for ETP
See also Leading
article
LPS schemes
Four proposals for local pharmaceutical services pilot schemes have been
approved by the
Department of Health
See also Leading
article
Benign prostatic hyperplasia
The efficacy and safety of herbal medicines used to improve symptoms associated
with BPH are considered in a continuing professional development article
[PDF
(65K)]
Questionnaire
A questionnaire is distributed
with this week’s Journal that seeks readers’ views on the
third discussion paper produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s
Modernisation Steering Group
| The "Broad Spectrum" feature is
open to any writer.
Contributions of around 1,200 words, commenting on topics of current
interest, should be sent to managing editor Graeme Smith (graeme.smith@pharmj.org.uk)
for consideration. |
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