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Choice is only half the story 434
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Choice is one of the Government's health mantras. Give patients more choice in treatment, both in terms of what they are offered and who should provide it, and they will be happier with the health service, so the argument goes. This week has seen the publication of a survey by MORI that underlines this thesis and, among other matters, suggests that people want much more information to help them make their choices. Alongside the survey, the Department of Health has also announced that there are now evidence-based guides provided by the BMJ to surgical procedures and treatments available for a whole range of conditions through the NHS Direct website
News & Features 435-442
News summary, including R&D 435-441
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Parkinson's project ready for take off 442
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A new project featuring regular consultations at community pharmacies for patients with Parkinson's Disease has recruited its pharmacists and is about to be launched. Naomi Kempner investigates what the project hopes to achieve
POEMs 436
POEMs series
Treatment of chronic H pylori infection reduces gastric cancer risk 436
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Products PDF (65K) 443
• Products Text 443
• Announcements Text 443
Fellows of the London School of Pharmacy Text 443
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 443
Rabies vaccine
Letters PDF (75K) 444-445
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Prescription fraud / Care homes / Methadone services / Sugar in medicines / Modernisation
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 446-448
Recent articles
Clinical testing series
Blood tests used to investigate liver, thyroid or kidney function and disease 446-448
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In this third article in a series on clinical testing, Pamela Mason describes three types of blood test performed by chemical pathology departments
Articles 449-451
IPSF: thinking globally, acting locally 449-451
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In 1949, the International Pharmaceutical Students' Federation was founded in London with eight member associations. Today, it represents over 395,000 pharmacy students and young pharmacists from 74 countries. Simon Bell reviews IPSF's activities and recent accomplishments
Onlooker PDF (80K) 452
Remedy from the far past In reading the archaeologist Steven Mithen's fascinating and enormous book ‘After the ice” (2003), which reviews the global history of humans from 20,000BC to 5,000BC, I was intrigued to come across a reference to a hypothetical event in which a hunter of 19,000BC who had injured his thigh with a stone flake and suffered uncontrollable bleeding was treated by a girl who gathered succulent leaves and squeezed the juice upon the gaping wound, thus arresting the haemorrhage Text
Moral concerns about biomedical research According to Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist from the University of Pennsylvania, writing in Science for 20 February, the moral argument that investing in science and technology to extend and improve the quality of life despite the risks involved may be misleading Text
Science and politics A report from Washington in The Lancet for 13 March describes a deteriorating situation in the relationship between the scientific establishment and the political administration in the US Text
And I quote...Those experts! “No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts...” Text
The Society PDF (370K) 453-460
• April Council meeting: attendance and guests Text 453
• Violence in pharmacies
to be raised in talks with minister Text 453
• Society's head of education
to leave Text 453
• Earlier start for technician
registration Text 453
• Criteria for registering
overseas technicians Text 454
• Decisions on corporate
governance Text 454
• Competence of working students
and preregistration trainees Text 454
• CRHP review of the Society Text 454
• Self nomination for fellowship Text 454
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
to present
• Accuracy of prescription endorsements Text 454
• BRM motions address patient safety issues Half
the 12 motions submitted for debate at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's 2004
branch representatives' meeting reflect concerns about improving patient safety Text 455
• Huddersfield branch holds dinner in honour of Society's
President The Huddersfield branch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
held a dinner on 26 March in honour of the Society's President, Dr Gill Hawksworth,
who is a member of the branch Text 455
• Council election procedures and candidates' "Who's
who" PDF (160K) 456-459
Official notices 2001
to present
• Alterations to the Byelaws: fellows Text 460
• Scottish Department Executive election Text 460
• Welsh Executive election Text 460
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 460
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 443
• Conferences Text 443
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Corrections Text
• Technicians database 443
• Zevalin 443
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