Leading
Articles [PDF
(40K)] 320
• Another view of prescription charges [Text] 320
• At a glance — or at a peer? [Text] 320
News & Features 321-328
News [Text]
[PDF
(390K)] 321-328
Products 329
Products [Text]
[PDF (40K)] 329
Announcements [Text] 329
Recalls [Text] 329
Spectrum 330
Arnica's bruised reputation [Text]
[PDF (40K)] 330
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(75K)] 331-335
Agenda 336-337
Do high prescription charges undermine compliance? [PDF (45K)] 336-337
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 338-340
CPD summary page
Pregnancy
(4) General care of pregnant women [PDF (60K)] 338-340
Meetings & Conferences 341
Local Pharmaceutical Committees [Text]
[PDF (55K)] 341
Original Papers 342-345
Assessing the impact of re-engineering of pharmacy services to general
medical wards [PDF (70K)] 342-345
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(85K)] 346
Filthy habit / Rusty problem / Abusing science / Lawyers' lament 346
The Society
[PDF
(140K)] 347-350
News
• CPD roll-out completed in north-west [Text] 347
• Substantial early response to survey on mandatory
CPD for pharmacists [Text] 347
• E-mailed newsletters can significantly cut branch
costs [Text] 347
Obituaries & tributes [Text] 348
Official notices
• Council election 2003 [Text] 349
Committee elections 2003
• Hospital Pharmacists Group [Text] 349
• Veterinary Pharmacists Group [Text] 349
• Community Pharmacists Group [Text] 349
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Reunions [Text]
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) draws attention to the news that
prescription volume is likely to increase dramatically when repeat dispensing is established.
At the Prescription Pricing Authority conference, Nick Scholte, chief executive, PPA, said that
the authority would find it difficult and costly to cope with this increase and emphasised the
need for modernisation of the way in which
prescriptions are written and processed
Prescription charges
An article in our Agenda for 2003 section looks at whether high prescription charges affect how
patients take their medicines (PDF 45K)
See also
Leading article
Pregnancy
Our continuing professional development series on pregnancy continues with an article that reviews
the minor ailments commonly experienced during pregnancy (PDF 60K)
Ward pharmacy services
Research from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, shows that re-engineering its
clinical pharmacy services to general medical wards has resulted in improvements in efficiency
of service and more appropriate use of skill mix (PDF 70K)
Recalls
Roche Products is recalling two batches of Valium injection ampoules
10mg/2ml (diazepam) as a precautionary measure
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