| Leading
Article [PDF
(40K)]
• Public health — still a long way to
go [Text]
• Where are you? [Text]
News & Features
News [Text]
[PDF
(340K)]
• Do pharmacists pay more to practise than
other health care professionals? [Text]
[PDF (70K)]
• Surveys compare what pharmacists do with
what they want to do and why [Text]
[PDF (85K)]
Broad Spectrum
• Helping community pharmacists in their emerging
public health roles [Text]
[PDF
(40K)]
• The draft Mental Health Bill — is it time
to rush to the barricades? [Text]
[PDF
(40K)]
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(70K)]
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD summary page
How to build a successful team [PDF
(70K)]
Articles
• Medicines information: a co-ordinated national
approach to competency-based practice [Text]
[PDF
(75K)]
• Health inequalities — a neglected area
of pharmacy policy and practice [PDF
(55K)]
Meetings and Conferences
• Genetics and Law [Text]
[PDF
(80K)]
• Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee
[Text] [PDF
(45K)]
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(45K)]
Tricky progress / Research and security / Price of indulgence
The Society
[PDF
(140K)]
News
• New scale of fees approved for 2003 [Text]
• Council consults on ending elections by
STV [Text]
• Earlier fellowship of Society now possible
[Text]
• Move to end disclosure of members' addresses
[Text]
• Why we need a pharmaceutical register that
gives reliable information [Text]
• Leicestershire and Rutland branch celebrates
Diwali [Text]
• Seven pharmacists designated as fellows
[Text]
Official notices
Alterations to the Byelaws:
-Election of Council and auditors [Text]
-Annual Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists [Text]
• New fellows [Text]
• Statutory Committee inquiries [Text]
Obituaries [Text]
Medicines, ethics and practice
December cumulative list of amendments [Text]
Statutory Committee [Text]
• Striking-off for Viagra sale to journalist
• Pharmacist's alcohol problems lead to striking-off
order
• "Lackadaisical" response to advice
leads to reprimand
• Locum did not present "acceptable face"
of pharmacy
Law and Ethics Bulletin
Checking nurse prescribers' credentials [Text]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Products [Text]
[PDF
(55K)]
Announcements [Text]
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Front Cover Picture
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has gained
approval for the proposed increases in its members’ and premises
fees for 2003
This week’s front cover picture also illustrates our news
feature, which compares what pharmacists pay to practise with what
doctors, dentists and nurses pay
Professional developments
A news feature
looks at the findings from two recent surveys of the views of community
pharmacists on current and future professional developments
Emerging public health role
An article this week argues for much greater engagement by pharmacists
with the emerging health policy focus on public health and inequalities
in health (PDF
55K)
A Broad
Spectrum piece highlights the important role that pharmacists can
play in public health and explains how the Pharmacy Healthcare Scheme
is committed to supporting pharmacists in this role
In a letter, Hemant
Patel gives his views on why it is essential that community pharmacists
are involved in the delivery of public health services
See also Leading
article
MI competency framework
An article
describes how the United Kingdom Medicines Information competency framework,
launched in September 2001, was developed and how it is being used in
practice
| 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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