Leading
Articles [PDF
(40K)] 386
• Lord Hunt's legacy [Text] 386
• Interest waning [Text] 386
News & Features 387-396
News [Text]
[PDF
(400K)] 387-394
Information technology could change pharmacy as much
as the OFT report [Text]
[PDF (90K)] 395-396
Products [PDF (40K)] 397
• Products [Text] 397
• Announcements [Text] 397
• Recalls [Text] 397
Broad Spectrum 398
Same laws of science apply to all medical practices — if
only people realised
that [Text]
[PDF (40K)] 398
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(65K)] 399-401
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 402-404
CPD summary page
Pregnancy
(6) Complementary therapies in pregnancy [PDF (75K)] 402-404
Articles 405-411
• Antipsychotics in the treatment of first-episode schizophrenia
[PDF (65K)] 405-408
• Area prescribing committees — what is their role
in the new NHS? [Text]
[PDF (45K)] 409
• IJPP given a new look and is now fully available online
[Text]
[PDF (65K)] 410-411
Meetings & Conferences 412-413
Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group [Text]
[PDF (45K)] 412-413
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(55K)] 414
Back to Snow / Neglected zinc / Fountain of youth 414
The Society
[PDF
(100K)] 415-420
New Charter for the Society
• Consultation document seeks members' views on changing
the Society's Charter [Text] 415
• Fit for the future: Changing the Charter [PDF (165K)] insert
News
• Society briefs Welsh health minister on its reform
plans [Text] 416
• New practice guidance on testing body fluids published
[Text] 416
• Society invites applications to serve on panel
of fellows [Text] 416
• Royal attention for museum "flying boxes" [Text] 417
• Society appoints a records manager [Text] 417
• Community Pharmacists Group election off [Text] 417
• One pharmacist in five responds to CPD consultation
[Text] 417
Obituaries & tributes [Text] 418-419
Official notices
• Scottish Department Executive election [Text] 419
• Cancellation of Community Pharmacists Group election
[Text] 419
• Panel of fellows [Text] 419
• Erasures from Register on direction of Statutory
Committee [Text] 419
Diary
• Branch meetings [Text]
• Society meetings [Text]
• Future events [Text]
• Conferences [Text]
• Reunions [Text] |
Front Cover Picture
The Government’s plan to modernise the National Health Service information technology infrastructure
could mean big changes for pharmacy. This week’s front cover picture illustrates our news
feature, which looks at developments in IT in the NHS that could have a major effect on pharmacy
in the future
Draft new Royal Charter
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is consulting the membership on a suggested draft new Royal
Charter. The draft is set out in a consultation document published as an eight-page pull-out
section in this week’s Journal (PDF 165K)
Complementary therapies
Our continuing professional development series on pregnancy concludes with an article that discusses
the evidence for the safety and efficacy of some herbal medicines and complementary therapies
used in pregnancy (PDF 75K)
First-episode schizophrenia
An article in this week’s issue looks at the onset, symptoms and outcome of first-episode
schizophrenia. It also discusses guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
and reviews the propensity for atypical antipsychotics to induce extrapyramidal symptoms (PDF 65K)
New look for IJPP
The March issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice has been given
a new look and
will soon be fully available online
| 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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