The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7260
2 August 2003

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Leading Article   138

Missing infrastructure 138
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On the surface, progress towards supplementary prescribing by pharmacists looks good. Several training courses have now been accredited and are set to accept the first intake of students shortly. And this week, we report on a pharmacist's successful experience of using a clinical management plan in practice


News & Features   139-144

News summary 139-142
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Supplementary prescribing in practice 143
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By the end of this year, some pharmacists will be supplementary prescribers. Clare Bellingham talks to a pharmacist who has undertaken a pilot of the clinical management plan template that has been designed for use by supplementary prescribers

How pharmacists can contribute to the care of patients with heart failure 144
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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence issued its fifth clinical guideline last week. Harriet Adcock reports


Products PDF (80K)   145

• Products Text 145
• Announcements Text 145

• Drug tariff updates Text 145
• Recalls Text


Letters   146-148

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   149-151
Recent articles

The new National Health Service series

(2) Understanding the NHS in Scotland    149-151
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By Sally Arnison, DipClinPharm, MRPharmS, and Elspeth Alexandra, DipIR, MIPR
This article reviews some of the recent changes to the National Health Service in Scotland that affect pharmacy and gives an overview of future changes


Articles   152-159

Supplementary prescribing and access to medical records series

(3) What prescribing pharmacists need to know 152-155
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In this, the last of three articles on supplementary prescribing and access to medical records, Kenneth Mullan examines existing rights, duties and responsibilities with respect to medical records in the light of proposals to extend prescribing rights to other health care professionals, including pharmacists

Putting pharmaceutics into practice  156-157
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Last year, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society embarked on a novel venture: moving its pharmaceutics information service into a hospital setting. Lin-Nam Wang looks at how it has worked out

Methadone maintenance therapy: a dose reduction programme  158-159
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By Paul Vincent Mroso, PhD, MRPharmS
In this article, the author gives an account of a community pharmacy-based programme that was conducted to encourage those clients on methadone maintenance therapy to reduce and eventually to stop taking methadone


Onlooker PDF (75K)   160

Paper peril It seems to me that we are suffering sorely from a proliferation of paper surging upon us through the postal services. The vulgar expression for this is junk mail Text

Deficiency disease Percy Bysshe Shelley, in his 'Defence of poetry' (1821) made the profound remark: "the great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting on the cause." Text

Dangerous habit We constantly come across reports of the dire effects of the stimulant known as methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), which is taken, often by youngsters, as a "recreational drug" under the name of "ecstasy" Text

The rich life If Avarice be thy Vice, yet make it not the Punishment Text


The Society PDF (100K)   161-162

News
• Society's arms and motto explained in new information sheets from museum Text   161
• Society takes part in London Open House weekend again Text   161

Obituaries & Tributes Text   161

Medicines, ethics and practice
August list of amendments Text   162

Up-to-date guidance on the legal status of thousands of human medicines is now available from a searchable live database on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's website.

Official notices 2001 to present
Statutory Committee decisions Text   162


Diary Text

• Branch meetings
• Society meetings
• Future events
• Conferences
• Reunions

Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover (Northwick Park Hospital/model released) illustrates a news feature by Clare Bellingham, which looks at how clinical management plans work in practice
See also Leading article

How pharmacists can care for heart failure patients
A news feature by Harriet Adcock is based on the National Centre for Clinical Excellence’s fifth clinical guideline issued last week (PDF 65K)

What prescribing pharmacists need to know
The last of three articles on supplementary prescribing and access to medical records examines existing rights, duties and responsibilities with respect to medical records in the light of proposals to extend prescribing rights to pharmacists (PDF 100K)

Putting pharmaceutics into practice
An article looks at the benefits gained from the relocation of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s pharmaceutics information service into the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh

Methadone dose reduction programme
An account of a community-based programme conducted to encourage clients on methadone maintenance therapy to reduce and eventually to stop taking methadone (PDF 70K)