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Leading Articles
[PDF
(55K)] 72
Let us have a fair deal [Text]
72
News & Features 73-78
News [Text]
[PDF
(250K)] 73-76
How the new tiered contract for community pharmacy is being built [Text]
[PDF (75K)] 77-78
Products [PDF (60K)] 79
• Products [Text] 79
• Announcements [Text] 79
• Drug tariff updates [Text] 79
• Recalls [Text]
Broad Spectrum 80
Would it not be better to have a greater number of “quite expert” patients?
[Text] [PDF (55K)] 80
Letters [Text]
[PDF (110K)] 81-85
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 86-88
CPD summary page
Recent articles
Effective use of assessment methods [PDF
(65K)] 86-88
Articles 89-94
• Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy [PDF (80K)] 89-90
• Tablet crushing and the law [PDF (80K)] 90-91
Pharmacy around the world series
• Thomas Gaydon — a pioneering chemist [Text] [PDF (100K)] 92
• Herbal practitioners and pharmacists in Ghana [Text] [PDF (225K)] 93-94
Reviews [PDF (60K)] 95
• 'Pharmacy preregistration handbook: a survival guide',
by Lindsay M. Taylor [Text] 95
• 'Understanding eczema', by David de Berker
[Text] 95
• 'Vitiligo: understanding the loss of skin colour', by Marion
Lesage
[Text] 95
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF (70K)] 96
Lending of books / Healthy living / Before our time
The Society [PDF (125K)] 97-102
Welsh Executive
• AGM asks for new Charter to give policy-making power to Welsh Executive [Text] 97
• Welsh officers re-elected [Text] 97
• Police back medicinal cannabis [Text] 97
Education
End of 30-hour CE requirement: not just yet [Text] 98
Law and Ethics Bulletin 1992 to present
Freedom of Information Act 2000: publication schemes [Text] 98
News
• New guide to help branch public relations officers [Text] 99
• More than 300 pharmacists struck off for non-payment of fees [Text] 99
Obituaries & Tributes [Text] 99
Official notices 2001 to present
• Statutory Committee inquiries [Text] 100
• Erasures from Register for non-payment of fees [Text] 100-102
Diary [Text]
• Branch meetings
• Society meetings
• Future events
• Conferences
• Reunions |
Front Cover Picture
The target implementation date for pharmacy’s new contract is April 2004. This week’s
front cover picture (Taxi) illustrates our news
feature, which looks at the tiered contract that
has been proposed by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the obstacles that the
PSNC faces before the contract can be implemented
See also
News
Leading article
Supplementary prescribing of Controlled Drugs
Supplementary prescribers could be given the authority to prescribe
Controlled Drugs if Government
proposals are accepted
Assessment methods
An article in our continuing professional development section describes how to use assessment
methods effectively in order to maintain a manageable workload for both students and assessors
(PDF 65K)
Tablet crushing
The legal implications of tablet crushing are explored in an article (PDF 80K)
Herbal practitioners
in Ghana
An article looks at the interface between pharmacy and herbal practice in Ghana
| 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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