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A better form of regulation? 402
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Has this week seen the end of professional self-regulation as we know it? The provisional answer is “yes”. For the first time — under section 29 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 — the decision of a health regulator to exonerate a member has led to the regulator being taken to the High Court by the Council for the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals (CRHP) on the grounds that the decision was too lenient
News & Features 403-409
News summary 403-408
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How medicines management is set to be improved in hospitals in England 409
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Funding to improve medicines management in 20 hospitals has just been announced. Clare Bellingham reports
Products PDF (140K) 410-411
• Products Text 410
• Announcements Text 410
Pharmacy Assistant of the Year receives £2,000 prize in awards ceremony
held at Society’s HQ Text 411
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 412
Is electronic prescribing a Holy Grail? 412
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By Stephen Goundrey-Smith
Letters PDF (75K) 413-415
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Veterinary pharmacy / Indemnity insurance / Methadone / Excipients / Self-prescribing / Pharmacist prescribing / Sugar in medicines / NMS
Agenda for 2004 416-417
Agenda for 2004
How the new NHS code of practice on confidentiality affects all pharmacists 416-417
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By Joy Wingfield
Vision for pharmacy 418
Vision for pharmacy
A simple discharge service that works 418
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A pharmacist-run discharge service has made large improvements to the discharge process at a Wigan hospital. Clare Bellingham reports
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 419-421
Recent articles
Clinical testing series
Whys, whats and whens of blood tests 419-421
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In this second article in a series on clinical testing, Pamela Mason focuses on some of the tests requested from haematology departments
Articles 422-423
Position statement on care of patients receiving oral anticancer drugs 422-423
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On this and the following page is a position statement from the British Oncology Pharmacy Association on safe practice and the pharmaceutical care of patients receiving oral anticancer chemotherapy
Meetings 424-425
Reports
Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group 424-425
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A recent meeting discussed technical and regulatory issues surrounding the use of rapid microbiological methods and the substantial advantages they offer to the pharmaceutical industry for product quality control and process analytical technology. Joe Chamberlain reports
Onlooker PDF (80K) 426
Lore of the rings and Good Friday coins Rings have a remarkably prominent place in human customs and beliefs. Their material and the finger on which they are worn varies greatly from place to place and from time to time Text
Dealing with terrorism, great and small We hear a great deal today about fanaticism and terrorism, matters that have much in common with one another, but calm consideration of what these mean, as opposed to politically inspired denunciations, is sorely lacking Text
Child soldiers hit by post-traumatic stress A research letter in the 13 March issue of The Lancet draws attention to the ugly problem of child soldiers in many parts of the world. Researchers from Belgium have reported serious post-traumatic stress affecting Ugandans who were formerly employed while children in armed conflicts. They state that worldwide 300,00 children are employed as soldiers Text
The Society PDF (180K) 427-432
• Council election Fifteen candidates are seeking
election to the Society’s Council this year, but they do not include immediate
past president Marshall Davies Text 427
• Protection of members' privacy is behind changes made to
Register A series of changes to the publication of the annual Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists has been implemented by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to help protect members from unwanted attention from individuals or commercial organisations Text 427
• Society fills five of the new senior posts at its Lambeth
headquarters As part of the restructuring of its Lambeth staff, the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society has appointed five new key staff members Text 428
• Two to quit the Scottish Department Executive There will be at least two new faces on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Scottish Department Executive after this year’s election of six members Text 428
• Society uses its website to help build database of technicians Pharmacy
technicians and their employers are being encouraged to use the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society's website to submit contact details so that the Society can build a database
for distributing information on technician registration Text 428
• Museum information sheets highlight pharmacy's history The museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched three new illustrated information sheets looking at the history of delftware storage jars, and the Society's headquarters building and the museum Text 428
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
to present
• Checking contents of manufacturers' packs Text 428
• Listening Friends Scheme The Listening Friends Scheme is supporting an increasing number of pharmacists with stress Text 429
• Corporate governance and the Council How the Council is implementing corporate governance within the Society Text 430-431
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 431
April 2004 amendments Text
Official notices 2001
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• Scottish Department Executive election Text 432
• Welsh Executive election Text 432
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 432
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 432
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 410
• Conferences Text 410
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Corrections Text
• Shiv Bagga 410
Reunions Text
Resources Text
• Eczema resources 410
• Blood glucose 410
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