Leading
Articles [PDF
(55K)] 562
Let's do it [Text] 562
News & Features 563-568
News [Text]
[PDF
(280K)] 563-567
Developing new out-of-hours services [Text]
[PDF (75K)] 568
Products [PDF (70K)] 569
• Products [Text] 569
• Recalls [Text] 569
Letters [Text]
[PDF (90K)] 570-573
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 574-577
CPD summary page
Oral care
(3) Oral problems [PDF (130K)] 574-577
Features 578-582
Buying a pharmacy
• A guide for the first-time buyer [Text] [PDF (130K)] 578-580
• Raising capital [Text] [PDF (145K)] 581-582
Original Papers 583-586
The incidence and nature of drug-related admissions to hospital [PDF (90K)] 583-586
Articles 587-589
Combined alpha-lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine supplementation [PDF (70K)] 587-589
Meetings and Conferences 590-593
• Institute of Pharmacy Management International [PDF (50K)] 590
• British Pharmaceutical Students Association [PDF (110K)] 591-592
• Bioforce conference on Phytotherapy Research [PDF (50K)] 593
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF (75K)] 594
Floating mysteries / Vital resource / Facing the weather 594
The Society [PDF (380K)] 595-600
News
• Council agrees framework for ensuring the competence
of dispensary assistants [Text] 595
• BPC to have its first woman Science Chairman in
2004 [Text] 595
• Society launches online library catalogue [Text] 596
• Hundreds view museum display at Royal Free [Text] 596
• AGM to debate Society's proposed charitable status
[Text] 596
• Charter medal winners for 2003 [Text] 596
• Perth to be Charter roadshow venue for members
in Scotland [Text] 600
• Branches take up offer of funding for Charter meetings
[Text] 600
Reform of the Society [Text]
more questions answered 597
Preparing for CPD and prescribing [Text]
Two future developments affecting pharmacists — mandatory
continuing professional development and supplementary prescribing — were
the topics for an evening conference held by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Border region on 19 March
in Chester-le-Street 598
Official notices 599
• Annual general meeting: revised announcement [Text] 599
• Statutory Committee decisions [Text] 599
• Council voting papers [Text] 599
Diary [Text]
• Branch meetings
• Society meetings
• Future events
• Conferences
• Reunions
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates a news
feature that looks
at how pharmacists are expanding their out-of-hours roles in order to improve patient access
to services
See also
Leading article
Oral care
The third article in our continuing professional development series on oral care looks at a range
of oral conditions that pharmacists may be asked to advise on (PDF 130K)
Buying a pharmacy
Our special feature this month
looks at the practical, financial and legal aspects of buying a pharmacy business. It includes
a guide for
first-time buyers and an article that looks at loan
guarantee schemes offered by wholesalers
to help pharmacists raise money to buy a pharmacy
Drug-related admissions
Research published this week shows that up to 10 per cent of admissions to hospital are drug
related, the most commonly implicated drug classes being cardiovascular system drugs, central
nervous system drugs and non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs (PDF 90K)
Recalls
Clonmel Healthcare Ltd has recalled a batch of Flamrase (diclofenac)
SR tablets 100mg
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