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Leading Articles PDF (55K) 664
Promoting pharmacist prescribing to patients 664
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It is a matter of weeks now, rather than months, before pharmacist supplementary prescribers will be qualified to use their skills. Although it is well known in pharmacy circles that they can only prescribe with the agreement of both independent prescribers and patients, it is surely time that the person in the street knew what lies ahead — to prevent any misunderstandings developing
Show us your money 664
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Contractors in England and Wales have given their approval to the framework for the new pharmacy contract being developed by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee. However, only two-thirds of contractors bothered to vote on this most important of topics. Why might this be?
News & Features 665-672
News summary 665-671
Text PDF (500K)
Future still unclear for cannabis-based medicines after multiple sclerosis trial 672
Text PDF (55K)
Has too much been expected from cannabis-based medicines?
Harriet Adcock examines the evidence
Products PDF (80K) 673
• Products Text 673
• Announcements Text 673
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 674
A promising way forward to the goal of systematic medicines management 674
Text PDF (55K)
By Charles D. Hepler
The advantages of a multi-level medicines management system may be fundamental and far-reaching. Beneficiaries would include patients, pharmacists, physicians and, ultimately, the entire health enterprise of a nation
Letters PDF (100K) 675-678
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Modernisation / Devolution / Registartion exam / Concordance / Law and Ethics / Dermatix gel
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 679-681
Recent articles
Pharmacoeconomics series
(1) An introduction to health economics 679-681
PDF (100K)
By Rachael Fleurence, MSc
Economics is increasingly being used to make health policy decisions and pharmacists need to understand the basic concepts involved. This article explains some of the concepts and terms that pharmacists may come across
Original Papers 682-686
How the use of preventable drug-related morbidity indicators can improve medicines management in primary care 682-686
PDF (100K)
By Caroline J. Morris, PhD, MRPharmS, Judith A. Cantrill, MSc, FRPharmS,
and Julia R. Bate, BSc, MRPharmS
Aim • To apply practically a series of validated indicators
for preventable drug-related morbidity (PDRM) in order to facilitate improvements
in medicines management
Meetings and Conferences 687-688
Reports
What you should not miss at the Community Pharmacy conference 687-688
Text PDF (100K)
The Community Pharmacy
conference organised by
The Pharmaceutical Journalwill take place on 23 November at
the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
headquarters in Lambeth.
Here, we preview
the exhibition
Articles 689
How pharmacists can support healthy exercise and drug-free sport 689
Text PDF (65K)
David Mottram and Jennifer Archer outline how the Centre
for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education can help community pharmacist in England
become key players in drugs in sport and fitness information
Onlooker PDF (85K) 690
Training the mind In the 3 October issue of Science there is a fascinating discussion on how the practice of meditation may assist studies of the workings of the human mind Text
Herbal remedies in question An assessment of the possible risks of herbal treatments as against their likely benefits, by Professor Edzard Ernst of Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, appears in the BMJ for 18 October Text
Dealing with anorexia Anorexia nervosa is a singularly challenging disorder for the therapist, since it involves making a decision on whether the patient is competent to accept or refuse any treatment offered and carries a distinct hazard if approached in the wrong way Text
The Society PDF (220K) 691-696
Charter links and articles
News
• Society and National Treatment Agency join forces to care for drug
misusers Text 691
• Society's Scottish Executive welcomes draft Charter changes Text 691
• Society's museum in media spotlight Text 691
Two more models for the structure of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society PDF (120K) 692-694
Last week, Marcus Longley set out the background to the current consultation on the future supporting structures for the reformed Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and five key criteria which any structures should perhaps meet. He also described the first of three different models and discussed it in the context of the criteria. This week, he presents two further models
Obituaries & tributes Text 695
Official notices 2001
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Statutory Committee inquiries Text 695
Society meetings Text
Pharmacy development groups conference (20 November) 632
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 696
• Society meetings Text 695
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Front Cover Picture
The first large-scale randomised trial to assess cannabis’s effectiveness
in multiple sclerosis has produced mixed results. This week’s front
cover picture shows a cannabis plant and illustrates our news
feature,
in which Harriet Adcock examines the evidence for the use of cannabis-based
medicines in MS
Health economics
An article in our continuing professional development section explains
some of the basic concepts involved in health economics (PDF 100K)
Preventable drug-related morbidity indicators
Research from Manchester shows that it is possible to use preventable
drug-related morbidity indicators to facilitate improvements in medicines
management in primary care (PDF 100K)
See also
Broad Spectrum
What to expect from the community conference
The Journal’s Community Pharmacy conference takes place on 23 November
at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s headquarters in London. A
preview of the exhibition starts
on p687.
Drug-free sport
An article outlines
how the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education can help community
pharmacists in England become key players in drug-free
sport and fitness information |
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