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Leading Articles
[PDF
(40K)] 2
• Safeguarding the future [Text]
2
• Spreading the message [Text] 2
News & Features 3-10
News [Text]
[PDF
(270K)] 3-9
Gearing up for “Ask about medicines” week — how you can get
involved [Text]
[PDF
(35K)] 10
Products [PDF (55K)] 11
• Products [Text] 11
• Announcements [Text] 11
• Recalls [Text]
Broad Spectrum 12
Main obstacle to patient pack dispensing is “stick to the rules” attitude
of the PPA
[Text] [PDF (40K)] 12
Letters [Text]
[PDF (105K)] 13-14
Pharmaceutical Care awards 2002 [PDF (370K)] 15-18
• Making the elite pharmacists of today the stars of tomorrow [Text] 15
• Pharmacists can improve health outcomes [Text] 15
• Innovation in hospital pharmacy [Text] 16
• Innovation in primary care [Text] 17
• Innovation in community pharmacy [Text] 18
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 19-21
CPD summary page
Recent articles
NSF for older people 19-21
(4) Stroke [PDF
(80K)]
Original Papers 22-23
A prospective evaluation of pharmacy contributions to post-take ward rounds
[PDF (70K)] 22-23
Articles 24-26
Supplementary prescribing and access to medical records series
(2) Access
rights of patients and others [PDF (70K)] 24-26
Meetings & Conferences 27
ECRI/Medical Protection Society [Text] [PDF (60K)] 27
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(75K)] 28
Puzzling patents / Art and arsenic / Medicate and meditate / Essential unity
The Society
[PDF
(230K)] 29-34
New Charter
• Consultation document seeks further views on changing the Society's Charter [Text] 29
• 1,000-plus attend Charter meetings [Text] 29
• Fit for the future: A new Charter — time to have your say! [PDF (160K)]
News
• Guidance on legal status of medicines now available from online database [Text] 30
• MEP 27th edition includes new guidance on CPD [Text] 30
• Society offers £470,000 for R&D projects [Text] 31
• National conference will discuss pharmacy workforce [Text] 31
• Veterans meet [Text] 31
• 100 years of local pharmacy organisation in East London [Text] 31
Obituaries & Tributes [Text] 32-33
Law and Ethics Bulletin
• Disposal of pharmaceutical waste [Text] 33
• Checking of paediatric dosages [Text] 33
Official notices
• Statutory Committee decisions [Text] 34
• Wales annual general meeting [Text] 34
Diary [Text]
• Branch meetings
• Society meetings
• Future events
• Conferences
• Reunions
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Front Cover Picture
The winners of the Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2002 were presented with their awards at a dinner
held at the Savoy Hotel in London last week. The dinner was preceded by a short conference at which
the finalists presented their work. This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha)
highlights a report of the awards dinner and the winning projects
Methotrexate safety
Patients are to have a role in preventing medication errors involving methotrexate
“Ask about medicines” week
“
Ask about medicines” week will take place from 12–18 October. Our news
feature looks
at how some primary care trusts are gearing up for the campaign
Prevention and management of stroke
The fourth article in our continuing professional development series on the National Service
Framework for Older People focuses on how pharmacists can help prevent and manage stroke (PDF 80K)
Further consultation on Society’s Charter
The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is seeking further views from members on a new
Royal Charter. A consultation document is published as an eight-page pull-out section in this
week’s Journal (PDF 160K)
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