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This week's Council meeting — which will be reported in detail next week — was full of drama. The incumbent President, Gill Hawksworth, failed to be given a second year in office, as has become the norm in recent years, and Nicholas Wood, who was president of the Society in 1992–93, was elected to take over the reins. According to Mr Wood, a member of the Save Our Society group, the re-election of a past president is not without precedent, although historians will have to look back to 1879 to find another example
News & Features 727-736
News summary (including R&D) 727-734
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What the future holds for pharmacy 735-736
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What will pharmacy look like in 10 years' time? Pharmacists, academics, policy makers and others interested in pharmacy's future gathered at a conference in London recently to gaze into their crystal balls. Clare Bellingham reports
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• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 737
DRUG ALERT: Mercaptamine/mercaptopurine confusion
Letters PDF (80K) 738-740
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Council election / Paracetamol / Repeat dispensing / Free movement in Europe / The industry
Vision for pharmacy 741-742
Vision for pharmacy
Establishing a cross-sector pharmacy service to improve heart failure care 741-742
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A two-part pharmacy service to tackle heart failure in Glasgow has been granted lottery funding. Part of the service involves pharmacists in primary care who review patients with heart failure to check they are taking the right medicines. However, to prevent problems arising in the first place, greater pharmacist involvement in hospital ensures that patients with heart failure are discharged on the right medicines. Clare Bellingham reports
Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Peri-operative medication series
Peri-operative antibacterial prophylaxis 743-745
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In the fourth article of a series on peri-operative drug therapy, Mohamed H. Rahman and James Anson discuss the prevention of surgical site infections
Articles 746-747
Reasons why mystery shopping is a useful and justifiable research method 746-747
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Pauline Norris thinks mystery shopper studies can provide useful data on service quality in a range of settings. In this article she explains why
Onlooker PDF (90K) 748
Fungi improving our lives Once you take a long look at fungi you discover that their forms, their functions and their distribution are widely varied and their significance for our planet and us is massive Text
Universities cut back on chemistry teaching It is disturbing to learn of rumours that universities have been trimming their provision for teaching chemistry. The rumours have prompted the Royal Society of Chemistry to take action to preserve this essential part of the academic curriculum Text
Diet and sloth may displace tobacco as main cause of avoidable death A recent report by scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has concluded that there is a distinct possibility that a combination of physical sloth and a faulty diet will shortly displace tobacco as the main cause of avoidable death in the US Text
The Society PDF (210K) 749-752
• New team of Officers elected Nicholas Wood has
been elected President, Hemant Patel Vice-President and John Jolley Treasurer Text 749
• Privy Council nominee resigns Michael Schofield,
a Privy Council nominee, has resigned from the Society’s Council Text 749
• Welsh Executive election The annual election has
brought two changes to the Welsh Executive Text 749
• Commonwealth Pharmacy Day Commonwealth Pharmacy Day, when pharmacists in Commonwealth countries are asked to make a special effort to promote the profession, is celebrated on 16 June each year Text 749
Pharmacy workforce
census series
• An overview of the main findings from the 2003 pharmacy
workforce census Findings from the 2003 pharmacy workforce census provide
information on the sociodemographic profile and employment patterns of pharmacists
registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. This report, from the Society's
research and development division, gives a brief overview of the main findings.
An analysis of the changes between the results of the 2002 and 2003 censuses
will be given in a forthcoming article PDF (50K) 750-751
• Edinburgh meeting calls for strengthening of Scottish Department
to support policy-making Pharmacists in Scotland have told the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society's Secretary and Registrar, Ann Lewis, that the Society's
Scottish Department needs an enhanced infrastructure to support limited policy
making powers on Scottish issues Text 751
• First dictionary from Pharmaceutical Press The
Pharmaceutical Press (the publications division of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society)
has published its first dictionary, a Dictionary of Pharmacovigilance Text 751
Obituaries & tributes Text 752
Official notices 2001
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• Welsh Executive election result 2004 Text 752
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• Branch meetings Text 752
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Lab Tests Online 737
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