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Leading Articles
[PDF
(55K)] 878
• Brave new world [Text]
878
• Green light for prescribing [Text] 878
News & Features 879-884
News [Text]
[PDF
(280K)] 879-883
Green light for prescribing training [Text]
[PDF
(70K)] 884
Products [PDF (75K)] 885
• Products [Text] 885
• Announcements [Text] 885
• Recalls [Text]
Letters
[Text] [PDF
(100K)] 886-888
Feature 889-892
The recruitment crisis: is it over?
[PDF (105K)] 889-892
This month’s special feature looks at pharmacy recruitment. It includes five case studies that
focus on recruitment problems in the hospital and community sectors, and the strategies employed to overcome
them
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 893-895
CPD summary page
Recent articles
NSF for older people 893-895
(3) Effective interventions to support medicines use in older people [PDF
(85K)]
Original Papers 896-901
• Is there a role for a prescribing pharmacist in preventing prescribing
errors in a medical admission unit?
[PDF (90K)] 896-899
• A determination of patient awareness of the safety issues surrounding treatment
with methotrexate
[PDF (70K)] 900-901
Articles 902-907
• Supplementary prescribing and access to medical records series 902-903
(1) Existing duties
and responsibilities [PDF (65K)]
• Legislation for medicines and product liability — a review of UK
and European controls [PDF (85K)] 904-907
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(65K)] 908
Performance in health services / Chemistry for girls / Pet hates / Body and
soul
The Society
[PDF
(130K)] 909-912
News
• Expanded guidance on cholesterol testing [Text] 909
• Society's new guidance on medicines in care homes [Text] 909
• Welsh AGM to consider motion on new Charter [Text] 909
• New website launched by Welsh Executive [Text] 909
• Briefing paper discusses pharmacists' role in managing minor ailments [Text] 910
• Society helps NHS get the best from BNF [Text] 910
• Branches take up offer of BPC support [Text] 910
• New finance and resources director [Text] 910
Law and Ethics Bulletin [Text] 910
Changes to Misuse of Drugs Regulations
Scottish Department [Text] 911
• AGM demands that new Charter takes account of devolution in Scotland
• Maurice Hickey co-opted to serve on Scottish Executive
• Census finds high proportion of women pharmacists in Scotland
Official notices
• Scottish Executive election result 2003 [Text] 912
• Wales annual general meeting [Text] 912
Diary [Text]
• Branch meetings
• Society meetings
• Future events
• Conferences
• Reunions
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture illustrates our special feature on recruitment. The feature
includes five case studies that focus on recruitment problems in the hospital and community sectors,
and the strategies employed to overcome them (PDF 105K)
Genetics strategy
The Department of Health has published a £50m strategy on how genetics-based
health care will be integrated into the National Health Service
Supplementary prescribing
The first supplementary prescribing course for pharmacists was given the go-ahead this week.
In a news feature, Clare Bellingham
finds out more about which universities might be offering courses.
The first article of a three-part
series looking at supplementary prescribing
and access to medical records (PDF 65K)
NSF for older people
The third article in our continuing professional development series on the NSF for older people
looks at interventions pharmacists can make to improve care for older people. In particular,
it gives guidance on medication reviews (PDF 85K)
Prescribing pharmacists
Research from Scotland shows that a pharmacist attached to a medical admissions unit can significantly
improve drug history taking and chart writing (PDF 90K)
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