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Leading Articles
[PDF
(55K)] 738
• Singing from the same song sheet [Text] 738
• Striking a chord with expert patients [Text] 738
News & Features 739-744
News [Text]
[PDF
(270K)] 739-742
Time to mobilise expert patients’ skills [Text]
[PDF
(100K)] 743-744
Products [PDF (75K)] 745
• Products [Text] 745
• Resources: Cancer booklets launched [Text] 745
• Recalls [Text]
Broad Spectrum 746
Pharmacy and the public interest [Text]
[PDF (55K)] 746
Letters [Text]
[PDF (95K)] 747-749
Patient packs article index 750-753
• Let us hope a door may be opened to further discussion — campaign
summary [Text]
[PDF (85K)] 750-751
• A small increase in waste is a reasonable trade-off
for safety — the “green” view [Text]
[PDF (85K)] 751
• Still some challenges to overcome — a hospital
pharmacy perspective [Text]
[PDF (55K)] 752
• Let the UK be a forerunner in the user-testing
of patient pack labels and
leaflets — a European perspective [Text]
[PDF (60K)] 753
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 754-756
CPD summary page
Recent articles
Turn a dull lecture into an unforgettable learning experience
[PDF (130K)] 754-756
Features [PDF (280K)] 757-760
Medical and other health-related supplies for short holidays
abroad 757-760
Articles 761-765
• The Care Standards Act 2000 — implications
for community pharmacists [PDF (75K)] 761-763
• Pharmacists as patients
[PDF (60K)]
• Index
of articles
• Help is available for those with
alcohol or drug addiction
problems [Text] 764-765
• There is no need for patients
to feel hopeless about
vitiligo [Text] 765
Meetings 766-769
• European Society of Clinical Pharmacy [PDF (95K)] 766-767
• Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group [Text]
[PDF (60K)] 768-769
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF (75K)] 770
Long grind / Arresting decay / Passing the buck 770
The Society [PDF (330K)] 771-778
News
• Society launches complaints procedure [Text] 771
• Tenders invited for accreditation of technicians'
courses [Text] 771
• Society restructures its directorates [Text] 772
• Welsh Executive position statement on new Charter
[Text] 772
• Presentation of Charter medals for 2003 [Text] 776
• Who sought a special general meeting? [Text] 776
• Role for Society's branches in support for CPD?
[Text] 777
• SGM: final reminder [Text] 777
Branch representatives' meeting [Text] 773-775
Official notices 777-778
• Special general meeting [Text] 777
• Welsh Executive voting papers [Text] 777
• Scottish AGM [Text] 777-778
Diary [Text]
• Branch meetings
• Society meetings
• Future events
• Conferences
• Reunions
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Front Cover Picture
Our front cover photograph is intended to direct readers towards this week’s news
feature in which Clare Bellingham finds out about expert patients and how to mobilise
their skills
See also
Comment
This week we also carry two contributions to our occasional “Pharmacists
as patients” series, one relating
to drug
addiction and one to vitiligo
Public interest
In a “Broad Spectrum” article this
week, Sydney Holloway discusses the concept of public interest and how the pharmacy profession
best serves it
Patient packs
This week we conclude our campaign for the use of patient packs. As well as an article summarising
the campaign, we have articles from a hospital
pharmacist and an environmentalist. A Norwegian
pharmacist provides a European perspective
See also
Comment
Holiday medicines
A special feature this week provides guidance on medicines and health-related products that may
be required by pharmacy customers intending to travel overseas on holiday (PDF 280K)
The Society
Our report of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s branch representatives’ meeting
appears here
Charter medallists
Special general meeting final reminder
| The "Broad Spectrum" feature is
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interest, should be sent to managing editor Graeme Smith (graeme.smith@pharmj.org.uk)
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