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Leading
Article [PDF
(40K)] 68
• Watching and waiting won't work [Text] 68
• Does payment affect compliance? [Text] 68
News & Features 69-76
News [Text]
[PDF
(450K)] 69-74
Pharmacists need to be proactive in the care of patients with diabetes [Text]
[PDF (60K)]
75-76
Products 77
Products [Text]
[PDF (40K)] 77
Announcements [Text] 77
Broad Spectrum 78
Streamlined processes mean pharmacists need not leave their premises [Text]
[PDF (45K)] 78
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(80K)] 79-83
Agenda for 2003 84-85
Genetics education for pharmacists [Text]
[PDF (60K)] 84-85
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 86-88
CPD summary page
Heart disease
(6) Primary prevention of heart disease [PDF (75K)] 86-88
Articles 89-91
• Why pharmacists should consider clinical data management as a career [Text]
[PDF (55K)] 89-90
• Patient safety: the next step for research in community pharmacy [Text]
[PDF (35K)] 91
Book reviews [PDF (45K)] 92
• Action evaluation of health programmes and changes [Text] 92
• Atrial fibrillation in practice [Text] 92
• Nutraceuticals [Text] 92
Christmas quiz 93
Answers
[Text] 93
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF (65K)] 94
Perfect antidotes / Dawn of writing / Tricky stuff 94
The Society
[PDF (75K)] 95-100
News
• Society's Bristol branch provides resuscitation
training for members [Text] 95
• Inspectors' presentations: change of date for session
in Portsmouth [Text] 95
• Society hosts European conference on PAT [Text] 95
Obituaries and tributes [Text] 96
Statutory Committee [Text] 97-99
• Striking-off for £20k overpayment claims 97
• Unusual circumstances lead to decision's postponement 97-98
• Restoration refused after second removal from register 98
• Pharmacist given an opportunity to correct deficiencies 98-99
Official notices
Statutory Committee inquiries [Text] 99
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (Science Photo Library) represents an insulin molecule
and draws attention to the long awaited publication of the second part of the National Service
Framework for Diabetes. The NSF delivery strategy, published last week by the Department of Health,
specifically refers to pharmacists as being a regular point of contact for people with diabetes.
In a news
feature, Zoë Gross investigates where pharmacy fits in and how pharmacists
can help deliver the strategy
See also
Comment
Genetics education
This week, our Agenda for 2003 describes
the development of a strategy to meet the educational needs of pharmacists being asked to take
on new roles in genetics
Clinical data management
An article describes the role
of clinical data management in the approval of drugs for marketing and considers why pharmacists
should choose this specialty as a career
Research in community pharmacy
The Community Pharmacy Research Consortium discusses its work so far and describes the aims of
its new research programme (p91).
Christmas Quiz
The names of the prize winners and the answers to our Christmas quiz can be found here
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