Leading
Articles [PDF
(45K)] 254
• Money talks [Text]
• No Smoking Day is not a yawn [Text]
News & Features 255-262
News [Text]
[PDF
(370K)] 255-261
Making your mark on No Smoking Day [Text]
[PDF (90K)] 262
Products 263
Products [Text]
[PDF (50K)] 263
Announcements [Text] 263
Drug tariff updates [Text] 263
Broad Spectrum 264
Is the marketing of pharmaceuticals a matter of style over
substance? [Text]
[PDF (40K)] 264
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(85K)] 265-269
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 270-272
CPD summary page
Pregnancy
(3) Drug use in pregnancy: part 1 [PDF (55K)] 270-272
Special Feature 273-275
• Planning ahead: are customers sick of smoking? [Text]
[PDF (130K)] 273-275
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy — at a glance [PDF (300K)] 275
Original Papers 276-277
Investigation into the effectiveness of the Dudley prescribing efficiency
scheme
[PDF (55K)] 276-277
Articles 278-281
The British National Formulary — memoirs of a former chairman
[PDF (140K)] 278-281
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(50K)] 282
Remarkable reading / The walking dead / Beginning and end 282
The Society
[PDF
(170K)] 283-288
News
• Society to develop public health strategy [Text] 283
• Society calls for access by pharmacists to medical
records [Text] 284
• Leaflet highlights museum services [Text] 284
• Inspectors' talks: date chosen for Blackburn [Text] 284
• New speakers guide reflects profession's changing
needs [Text] 284
Statutory Committee [Text] 285-287
• Temazepam theft leads to striking off 285
• Pharmacist reprimanded over offensive letters 285-286
• Restoration after undertaking to meet high practice
standards 286
• Name restored to register after overcoming alcohol
problem 286
• Reprimand for pharmacist guilty of alcohol-related
misconduct 287
Official notices
• Council election 2003 [Text] 287
• Community Pharmacists Group committee election
2003 [Text] 287
Obituaries & tributes [Text] 288
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Reunions [Text]
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture draws attention to No Smoking Day, which is on 12 March.
It illustrates both our News Feature,
which reports on how pharmacists can get involved in helping patients to quit smoking, and this
month’s Special Feature,
which looks at how pharmacists can prepare for No Smoking Day
See also News and
Leading article
Drug use in pregnancy
An article in our continuing professional development section looks at the treatment of hypertension,
diabetes mellitus and depression during pregnancy (PDF 55K)
Prescribing efficiency scheme
Research from the West Midlands shows that a pharmacist prescription intervention scheme was
successful, indicates potential annual savings of £17,000 and suggests that local prescribing
of statins should be reviewed by primary care trusts (PDF 55K)
See also
Leading article
BNF
In an article this week, a former chairman of the Joint Formulary Committee of the British National
Formulary gives a personal account of how the BNF was created (PDF 140K)
Recalls
Provalis Healthcare is recalling a batch of Salivix pastilles
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