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Partners in practice 694
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Rural GPs and community pharmacists have — traditionally — not always seen eye to eye. Turf wars between dispensing practices and local pharmacies have on occasion ended in tears. However, a development in Devon could help change the rural landscape and be the beginning of the end of ancient animosities between the two professions. Moreover, it could provide a model that has implications for practices in suburban and inner-city areas where pharmacies are thin on the ground and GPs find it difficult to attract professionals to provide pharmaceutical care
Council in the spotlight 694
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Next week, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Council meets for the first time since the election. The first afternoon
of business is to be largely devoted to discussion of the six motions
being put forward by a Save Our Society representative. Feelings are
expected to run high and points of view are likely to be
expressed strongly
News & Features 695-700
News summary 695-699
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Pharmacist joins practice partnership 700
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A general practice in Devon has something unique: a pharmacist as a partner. Is this a model for pharmacy in rural areas? Clare Bellingham reports
POEMs 699
POEMs series
Disulfiram appears to be effective in reducing cocaine dependence 600
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Products PDF (80K) 701
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• Drug tariff updates Text
Preregistration trainee project winners Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 701
MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT: Reusable nebulisers and legionella
Broad Spectrum 702
How to ensure shared learning becomes a reality: a report from a double agent 702
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By Lesley Diack
Letters PDF (85K) 703-706
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The Society / Malaria awareness / PI insurance / Statins / Methadone maintenance / The Journal
Agenda for 2004 707
Agenda for 2004
Reporting errors: can a “fair blame” culture really work for pharmacists? 707
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By Alan Nathan
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 708-710
Recent articles
Clinical testing series
Near-patient testing in the pharmacy 708-710
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In the final article in our series on clinical testing, Pam Mason discusses near-patient tests and the role of pharmacists in providing such services
Original papers 711-713
Two methods of dose optimisation in use within Paisley Local Health Care Co-operative 711-713
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By Ian Towle and Janet Trundle
Aim — To rationalise patient medication using two methods of dose optimisation
Meetings 714-719
Reports
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association 714
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Clinical pharmacists heard about the barriers to full participation in patient care that newly qualified pharmacists face. Christine Clark reports
Royal Pharmaceutical Society — Border Region 715
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Some anxieties about continuing professional development were soothed during a recent meeting in Durham. Malcolm Goldie writes
Nucare 716
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Nucare celebrated its 10th anniversary at its annual convention, where the future of pharmacy was discussed. Harriet Adcock reports
Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association 717
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A recent meeting of the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association discussed the legal and ethical implications of dispensing error reporting. Joy Wingfield, professor of pharmacy law and ethics, Nottingham University, reports
Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group 718-719
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While ICH validation guidelines provide a framework for the core activity of measurement validity, actual requirements are heavily influenced by the purpose and uncertainty of the measurement. This meeting, reported by Joe Chamberlain, examined key strategies for the successful validation of analytical methods at all stages of a medicine's life, from clinical trials through to post-marketing
Onlooker PDF (85K) 720
Has a burning question been solved? How long ago humans produced fires for specific purposes is a tricky question, but harnessing fire was clearly a crucial step in the development of our species Text
Biosecurity measures impede medical research A deep sense of insecurity is worrying most authorities in the face of bioterrorism, which is unlikely to go away in the foreseeable future. This has prompted measures to ensure that pathogenic organisms and other toxins in research and diagnostic laboratories are strictly controlled and protected. But these measures are causing a problem for those engaged in legitimate biomedical research Text
And I quote ... Common nonsense
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The Society PDF (180K) 721-724
• Workforce census The Society has launched a report
on its second pharmacy workforce census Text 721
• Council to debate alternative proposal for implementing
new regulatory mechanisms Alternative
procedures for implementing new regulatory mechanisms for pharmacy are to be
debated at next week's meeting of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council Text 721
• New guide to pharmaceutical isolators published by the Pharmaceutical Press New from the Pharmaceutical Press, the publications division of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, is a guide to pharmaceutical isolators Text 721
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
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• Storage of medicines by patients Text 721
• Preregistration training Should the provision of
preregistration training be integrated into workforce planning? Text 722-723
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 723
June 2004 amendments Text
Obituaries & tributes Text 724
Official notices 2001
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• Registered supplementary prescribers Text 724
• Scottish AGM Text 724
• Erasure from Register on direction of Statutory Committee Text 724
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• Branch meetings Text 724
• Society meetings Text
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Neuroendocrine tumours 701
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