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Leading Article PDF (55K) 310
Benefit of hindsight 310
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With the benefit of hindsight, some members of the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society might now wish that the consultation exercise for the proposed new Charter had been halted immediately after the Special General Meeting held at the beginning of June
News & Features 311-317
News summary 311-317
Text PDF (450K)
Products PDF (110K) 318-319
• Products Text 318
• Announcements Text 318
• Drug tariff updates Text 318
• Recalls: CoaguCheck PT test strips Text 318
Resources
• Mental Health pack
Text 319
• Child protection awareness programme Text 319
• European Parkinson's Disease Association has launched a website (Parkinsonpoly) Text 319
Broad Spectrum 320
Abolish prescription charges and win the next general election 320
By Noel Baumber, FRPharmS
Text PDF (55K)
Letters PDF (85K) 321-322
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New Contract / CPD / Registration exam / IBS / Storage temperature / The Society
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 323-325
Recent articles
Community pharmacy service development series
(3) National health service funding for community pharmacy service development in England 323-325
PDF (100K)
By Barbara Parsons, MMedSci, MRPharmS, and Georgina Craig, MA
This article looks at the National Health Service funding available in England for developing community pharmacy services
and how to persuade your PCT to invest in a service
Articles 326-327
The national workforce census series
(5) The primary care pharmacy workforce in Britain 326-327
PDF (70K)
By Rachel Mullen, PhD, MRPharmS, and Karen Hassell, PhD
The first full census of pharmacists was commissioned by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in August 2002. The Journal has commissioned a series of articles on the census. The fifth of these focuses on primary care pharmacists
 British Pharmaceutical Conference 328-337
Council members to man Society's BPC exhibition stand 328
Text PDF (80K)
The 2003 British Pharmaceutical Conference takes place
at the Harrogate International Centre from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 September,
with the overall theme of "Delivering innovation for patients". A summary of
the programme (PDF 120K) was published in The
Journal of 21 June (pp867–69). On this and the following nine pages we
preview the conference exhibition and the practice research and science presentations
Science presentations 329-332
Text PDF (100K)
A review of science at Harrogate This article highlights a selection of the work that will be reported in the science sessions at the
British Pharmaceutical Conference next week
Pharmacy practice research: 333-337
Text PDF (130K)
BPC 2003 presentations reviewed This article highlights a selection of the work that will be reported in the pharmacy practice research sessions at the British Pharmaceutical Conference next week. It is published in advance of the conference to guide pharmacists to particular sessions they might wish to attend or posters they might wish to visit
Meetings and Conferences 338-345
World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 338-345
PDF (300K)
The 63rd congress of the International Pharmaceutical
Federation took place in Sydney, Australia, from 5 to 9 September. Our
report of the proceedings begins here
Onlooker PDF (75K) 346
Forward with the WHO On taking over the duties of Director-General of the World Health Organization on 21 July, Dr Jong-wook Lee promised to make to make the control of HIV/ AIDS a priority of the organisation Text
New hope in malaria Traditional Chinese medicine has long employed the plant Artemisia annua as an antipyretic Text
Power of beauty A strange sunrise or sunset is a greater element in the education of a man thanmost people think Text
Stemming the flood Venice is a remarkable city, with a tremendous appeal to the senses and the emotions Text
The Society PDF (380K) 347-354
News
• Council to consider independent report on response to Charter consultation Text 347
• Director of Corporate and Strategic Development appointed Text 347
• New leaflet to help people learn about their medicines Text 347
• Lambeth library loan requests and renewals can now be made online Text 348
• Museum helps St Mary's Hospital celebrate 75 years of penicillin Text 348
• Society produces new fact sheet on confidentiality Text 348
Views on the draft Royal Charter Text 349-351
a report on the consultation
Obituaries & tributes Text 351
Branch representatives' meeting Text 352-353
Council's response to resolutions
This report, approved by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council at its August meeting, gives the Council's response to the resolutions passed at the Society's branch representatives' meeting in May
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Medicines, ethics and practice
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
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Official notices 2001
to present
Statutory Committee inquiries Text 354
Diary Text
• Branch meetings 354
• Society meetings
• Future events 319
• Conferences 319
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture highlights a report in
the Society section, which summarises the key issues that have emerged
from the consultation
on the draft new Royal Charter for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Service development
The third article in our continuing professional development series on
community pharmacy service development looks at what funding is available
and how to persuade your PCT to invest in a service (PDF 100K)
National workforce census
Our series on the national workforce census continues with an article
that focuses on the primary care pharmacy workforce (PDF 70K)
BPC
The British Pharmaceutical Conference takes place in Harrogate from 15
to 17 September. The conference exhibition and the practice research
and science presentations are previewed in this week’s
issue
FIP
The 63rd congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation took
place in Sydney, Australia, from 5 to 9 September. Our report of the
proceedings (PDF 300K)
Recalls
Roche Diagnostics has recalled a batch of CoaguChek PT test strips
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