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Everyone a winner? 800
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After much soul-searching and grappling with grammar, last week the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society came up with a form of words for the third Object of the revised draft Charter designed to satisfy the overwhelming majority of members. The deliberations started informally on Monday, 1 December when the Council considered members' comments on the revised draft Charter
News & Features 801-807
News summary (including R & D) 801-807
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Products PDF (120K) 808-809
• Products Text 808
• Announcements Text 808
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 810
Then and now — seeking a new Charter 810
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By S. W. F. Holloway
Let us start with two obvious facts: first, that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has only one Charter, the Charter granted in 1953 and still in operation; second, that this Charter does not contain a single reference to regulation or the regulatory role
Letters PDF (80K) 811-812
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Top-up fees / Modernisation / The Profession / Packaging
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 813-815
Recent articles
Ways to help change behaviour 813-815
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By Terry Maguire, PhD, MPSNI
This article looks at motivational interviewing and how pharmacists can use this technique to help people make
and maintain healthy lifestyle changes
Articles 816
National Reporting and Learning System series
Do you know why you make errors? 816
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In the last of a series of articles, Wendy Harris, senior pharmacist at the National Patient Safety Agency, describes how various tools and techniques can facilitate the detection of systems errors and embed patient safety in every aspect of practice
Meetings and Conferences 817
Reports
The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia 817
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Dr Bryony Dean Franklin, principal pharmacist for clinical services at Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, reports highlights from the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia's 26th federal conference, which took place in Canberra from 13 to 16 November
Onlooker PDF (80K) 818
A kink in time In my part of the south-west we are accustomed to strange goings-on for which we cannot find a satisfactory explanation Text
Caution over nitric oxide In the 27 November issue of The New England Journal of Medicine a report from the University of Chicago concludes that inhalation of nitric oxide by premature infants suffering from respiratory distress syndrome decreases the incidence of chronic lung disease and death Text
Dim future We have been aware for decades of the menace of antibiotic-resistant micro-organisms, but have been half-hearted when it comes to action to prevent future disaster Text
The art of creation In the
case of man, that which he creates is more expressive of him than that
which he begets... Text
The Society PDF (200K) 819-828
Charter links and articles
December Council meeting Text 819-825
• Council petitions for new Charter Text 819-822
• Motion to ballot the members Text 822-824
• Referrals to court by CRHP Text 824
• Head of UK delegation to PGEU Text 824
• Availability of information Text 824
• Parliamentary Fund Text 825
• Museum registered status Text 825
Other Council business 820-821
• The Petition Text 820
• President writes to all members on new Charter Text 821
The final draft new Charter 826-827
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The following is the final text of the proposed new Charter for the Society, as submitted to the Privy Council
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• Full-time retention fees for 2004 can be paid online Text 828
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The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has petitioned the Privy
Council for a new Royal Charter following agreement
of the final text of the Charter at the December Council meeting.
The
Save Our Society group has already announced that it will issue a counter-petition
See also
Leading article
SSRI warning extended
A Government warning not
to use paroxetine and venlafaxine to treat depression in children has
been extended to include sertraline, citalopram, escitalopram
and fluvoxamine
Changing behaviour
An article in our continuing professional development section looks at
motivational interviewing and how to help people make and maintain
healthy lifestyle changes (PDF 120K)
Why do we make errors?
The final article in
a series from the National Patient Safety Agency looks at tools and techniques
that can facilitate the detection of
systems errors and presents some scenarios to stimulate your thinking
Hospital pharmacy in Australia
A report highlights issues discussed at the 26th federal conference of
the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (PDF 55K) |
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