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Vol 270 No 7250
24 May 2003

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CPD Onlooker The Society Products Diary  

Leading Articles [PDF (40K)]   708

   • Winners [Text] 708
   • Own goal [Text] 708


News & Features   709-714

   News [Text] [PDF (200K)] 709-713

   Professional indemnity cover: who needs individual insurance policies? [Text] [PDF (40K)] 714


Products [PDF (50K)]   715

   • Products [Text] 715
   • Announcements [Text] 715
   • Resources: Enteral feeds [Text] 715
   • Recalls [Text]


Broad Spectrum   716-717

   • Villains or heroes? Why pharmacists must support the pharmaceutical industry [Text] [PDF (40K)] 716
   • Villains or heroes? Are profits growing at the expense of the developing world? [Text] [PDF (45K)] 717


Letters [Text] [PDF (90K)]   718-720


Patient packs article index   721-724

   • Two clear dispensing alternatives — a community pharmacist's view [Text] [PDF (40K)] 721
   • Today we have a chaotic mismatch of pack sizes — a general practitioner's view [Text] [PDF (40K)] 722
   • Patients are struggling with the daily realities of an unsatisfactory system — the Epilepsy Action perspective [Text] [PDF (40K)] 723
   • Clear and accurate information needed in order to keep patients informed — the Parkinson's Disease Society view [Text] [PDF (40K)] 724


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   725-727

   CPD summary page
   Recent articles

   How pharmacists can support carers [PDF (90K)] 725-727


Onlooker [Text] [PDF (80K)]   728

   Strange aberration / Plastic problem / Seeking the truth / Ancient wisdom 728


The Society [PDF (220K)]   729-736

   News
   • Return to first-past-the-post election system leads to four changes on Council [Text] 729
   • Scottish AGM to consider a motion on the Charter [Text] 729
   • Final details of special general meeting [Text] 733
  
   162nd annual general meeting [Text] 730-733

   Obituaries & tributes [Text] 734-735

   Official notices 735-736
   • Council election [Text] 735
   • Scottish AGM [Text] 735-736
   • Special general meeting [Text] 736
   • Welsh Executive voting papers [Text] 736


Diary [Text]
   • Branch meetings
   • Society meetings
   • Future events
   • Conferences
   • Reunions

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Front Cover Picture
Our front cover picture has been chosen to alert readers to the fact that the results of the first-past-the-post election of seven members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council are now in. Three current members of Council who stood for re-election, including the Treasurer, have been ousted by three of the candidates who stood for election under a “Save Our Society” banner
See also Leading article

Patient packs campaign
Our campaign for the use of patient packs continues this week with a further four articles: one from a community pharmacist, one from a general practitioner and two from patient organisations

Annual general meeting
This week we report the proceedings of the annual general meeting of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society which took place on 14 May. Treasurer’s report (p731). At the meeting, a motion was passed which called on the Council to seek a referendum before proceeding to seek charitable status for the Society (p732).
See also Leading article

Special general meeting
The agenda and proposed rules of procedure for the special general meeting of members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on 1 June are published on p733.
See also Letters and Leading article

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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