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Leading Articles
[PDF
(65K)] 670
• Bin your scissors — it’s time
for patient packs [Text] 670
• What is pharmacy practice? [Text] 670
News & Features 671-678
News [Text]
[PDF
(284K)] 671-676
New advice on safety of high doses of vitamins and
minerals clarifies muddle [PDF
(49K)] 677-678
Products [PDF (45K)] 679
• Products [Text] 679
• Announcements [Text] 679
• Recalls [Text]
Letters [Text]
[PDF (62K)] 680-682
Patient packs 683-687
Patient pack dispensing: why has such a good idea been so long
in arriving? [PDF (200K)] 683-685
Clear
benefits for patient safety and better use of pharmacy resources — the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society’s
view [PDF
(45K)] 686
The Government must honour its side of the
bargain —
the industry’s view [PDF
(45K)] 687
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 688-690
CPD summary page
Heart disease (7): Cholesterol control [PDF
(56K)] 688-690
Original paper 691-693
• Dose banding of chemotherapy in the Edinburgh
Cancer Centre [PDF
(65K)] 691-693
Meetings and Conferences 694-696
• College of Pharmacy Practice
[PDF
(41K)] 694
• Nucare [PDF
(40K)] 695
• United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association
[PDF (58K)] 696
Book reviews [PDF
(45K)] 697
• Stockley’s drug interactions [Text]
697
• Handbook of systemic drug treatment in dermatology
[Text] 697
• The handbook of clinical trials and other research
[Text] 697
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(70K)] 698
Science and crime / Virtue and vice / Subduing the arrogant 698
The Society
[PDF
(250K)] 699-706
News
• Special Council Meeting Council proposes
that inactive members can call themselves pharmacists [Text] 699-702
• CPD — your questions answered [Text] 702-703
• Museum lends objects to commemorate important
medical anniversaries [Text] 703
• One week left to pay retention fees before
erasure from Register [Text] 703
Obituaries & tributes [Text] 704-705
Official notices
• Special general meeting [Text] 706
• Statutory committee[Text] 706
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
the launch of a campaign by The Journal in support of the use of patient
packs. Over the next three weeks, The Journal will run a series of articles,
each looking at the use of patient packs from a different perspective.
To introduce the series, Jonathan Buisson takes a look at the convoluted
history of patient packs. Two articles then give the views
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the pharmaceutical
industry . Leading
article.
Vitamins and minerals
There was considerable media interest last week in the safety of vitamin
and mineral supplements. A news
feature looks at the final report of the Expert Group on Vitamins
and Minerals, which has made recommendations on 31 vitamins and minerals.
Cholesterol control
An article
in our continuing professional development series on heart disease discusses
lipid-lowering strategies in patients with established coronary heart
disease or in those at a high risk of developing CHD.
Council’s CPD decisions
The Council has agreed a number of proposals relating to continuing professional
development: the register is to be reconstructed into “active”
and “inactive” parts and “inactive” members can continue
to call themselves pharmacists. Leading
article.
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