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Leading Articles PDF (55K) 730
Where are all the community pharmacists? 730
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Mandarins looking after workforce planning in the Department of Health must be worried. According to research carried out by the University of Manchester on their behalf, there is currently a shortfall of 1,715 (whole-time) pharmacists in the community sector
False choice and reduced competition 730
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Demands made this week for greater clarity on how the Government's proposals to amend the control of entry rules will work in practice show how badly the “balanced package of measures” has been drafted. The push to introduce “choice and competition” is being done for ideological reasons, not the convenience of patients
News & Features 731-736
News summary 731-735
Text PDF (380K)
Pharmacist input benefits MS patients 736
Text PDF (75K)
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence guideline on the management of multiple sclerosis was published this week and emphasises teamwork between health care professionals. However, there is no direct guidance for the part pharmacists should play in the management of the condition. Should pharmacists be more involved? Hannah Pike investigates
Products PDF (80K) 737
• Products Text 737
• Announcements Text 737
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 738
Pharmacy support staff need ongoing training if goals are to be realised 738
Text PDF (55K)
By Margaret Watson and Alison Blenkinsopp
Over the past 20 years scores of prescription only medicines (POMs) have been reclassified to pharmacy only (P) status, and from P to general sale list (GSL) status
Letters PDF (120K) 739-743
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Modernisation / The Society / The Journal / Adrenal insufficiency / The profession / The register / Ramipril / Simvastatin
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 744-746
Recent articles
Drug use and dosing in the renally impaired adult 744-746
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By John Sexton, MSc, MRPharmS
This article gives an overview of how reduced renal function can affect prescribing
Original papers 747-748
An audit of adverse drug reactions to aqueous cream in children with
atopic eczema 747-748
PDF (75K)
By Michael J. Cork, PhD, FRCP, John Timmins, BPharm, MRPharmS, Catherine Holden,
MB ChB, MRCGP, Julie Carr, RGN, Victoria Berry, Rachid Tazi-Ahnini, PhD, and
Simon J. Ward, DPhil
Aim • To determine the proportion of children with atopic eczema who develop cutaneous reactions to emollient creams and ointments.
Articles 749
National Reporting and Learning System series
A new standard coding system for reporting patient safety incidents 749
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Over the next year the National Patient Safety Agency will be rolling out the new National Reporting and Learning System for NHS-funded health care in England and Wales. In this article, David Cousins, head of safe medication practice at the NPSA, highlights some important features of the system and how to use the codes for patient safety incidents involving medicines
Meetings and Conferences 750-753
Reports
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association 750-751
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This year’s autumn symposium of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association was held in Blackpool from 21 to 23 November. Harriet Adcock and Sonia Sanghani report
European Society of Clinical Pharmacy 752-753
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The 32nd European Symposium on Clinical Pharmacy took place in Valencia, Spain, from 29 October to 1 November. The theme was “Pharmacists in the health care team: standards of practice and systems of care”. Sonia Sanghani reports
Onlooker PDF (85K) 754
Patterns of sleep An editorial in Nature for 30 October draws attention to the fact that before the availability of electric light people were forced to make the most of the limited hours of daylight and that meant rising with the lark and stopping work at the going down of the sun. Those who wanted to achieve as much work as possible had no alternative Text
Civilised living It is not often that we pause to consider what is meant by civilisation. Indeed, it is something we assume envelops our day-to-day existence, always provided we are not personally involved in the circumstances of warfare of some kind or another. We define it as an advanced stage or system of social development, and the verb “to civilise” means to draw out of barbarism and to enlighten, refine and educate Text
The art of the embalmer Most information regarding the materials used in mummification procedures in dynastic Egypt has been derived from ancient texts Text
The Society PDF (110K) 755-760
Charter links and articles
Listening to pharmacists: report on the second consultation on a new Charter
Marcus Longley summarises the key issues raised in
the consultation on the second draft of a new Royal Charter for the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society Text 755-757
Statutory Committee Reports
• Reprimand for pharmacist who endorsed erroneous scripts for £3,700
overpayment Text 757
• Dispensing errors result in reprimand Text 758
• Admonition for pharmacist who worked after striking-off Text 758
• Reprimand for pharmacist who falsified claim for emergency contraception
supply Text 759
• Foreign pharmacist's registration granted on second application Text 759
Official notices 2001
to present
Statutory Committee decisions Text 759-760
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• Branch meetings Text 760
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 737
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (Athenais, ISM/Science Photo Library)
shows a spinal cord lesion caused by demyelination of white matter. It
illustrates our news
feature, in which Hannah Pike investigates whether
pharmacists should be more involved in the management of multiple sclerosis
Renal impairment
An article in our continuing professional development section gives an
overview of how reduced renal function can affect prescribing (PDF 100K)
ADRs to aqueous cream
Research from Sheffield shows that discomfort on application is more
common in children using aqueous cream than in those using other emollients
(PDF 75K)
Reporting incidents
An article describes
how to use the new standard coding system for reporting patient safety
incidents as part of the National Reporting and Learning
System, which is being rolled out over the next year
Second draft Charter
Marcus Longley summarises
the key issues raised in the consultation on
the second draft of a new Royal Charter for the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society
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