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Personal control redefined 174
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Under the provisions of the Medicines Act 1968, a community pharmacy should be under the personal control of a pharmacist. What precisely this means has never been tested in the courts and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and its Statutory Committee have employed a flexible interpretation in which each case is viewed on its merits
New contraception advice guidance 174
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New guidance has been issued by the Department of Health regarding the provision of contraceptive services to people aged under 16 years in England. The guidance says that health care professionals are justified in giving confidential advice and treatment to under-16s provided the young person understands the advice and that the advice or treatment is in their best interests. This means that there is no obligation to inform the young person's parents or guardians
News & Features 175-182
News summary 175-179
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Plan now for Ask About Medicines Week 180
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With three months to go until this year’s Ask About Medicines Week, Debbie Andalo looks into what is being planned and how this year’s campaign will differ from last year’s. She also describes how the Royal Pharmaceutical Society will play a leading role
How to target services at local needs 181-182
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How can pharmacists target the needs of their local population? The key is communication. Clare Bellingham investigates
Products PDF (45K) 183
• Products Text 183
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 184
How many staff members are needed to run a busy hospital dispensary? 184
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By Steve Acres
Letters PDF (75K) 185-187
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Shipman inquiry / Amlodipine / The profession / The Charter / The Journal
Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics series
Examples of dosage regimen design 188-190
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In this final article in our back to basics series on pharmacokinetics, Alison Thomson uses two case studies to describe approaches that can be taken to design drug dosage regimens to achieve target concentrations in individual patients
Original papers 191-196
OTC simvastatin supply — what changes in practice and education do pharmacists want? 191-193
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By John Blenkinsopp, Lydia Gathoga, Kate O’Connell, Muddassir Mukhtar,
Irim Rehman, Naheed Shan and Moheed Tariq
Aim — To investigate and appraise the changes required in practice and the training requirements of community pharmacists to enable them to supply simvastatin 10mg over the counter appropriately.
Successful provision of influenza vaccine from a community pharmacy in Aberdeen 194-196
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By Caroline Hind, Gordon Peterkin, George Downie, Charles Michie and Eunice Chisholm
Aim — To investigate a new model for administering
influenza vaccine through community pharmacy
Off the record 193
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Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking ... 193
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Since retiring I have taken up public speaking. My subject is the fluctuating character of the high street since I began my career over half a century ago. From my days as an apprentice I cover the time during the 1960s when I was a pharmacy manager up to when I became a proprietor. The reactions of different audiences to my talk has caused me to adapt my material. I now include more anecdotal and nostalgic items
Articles 197-200
Complementary medicine pharmacist 197-198
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In this first article in a series discussing different aspects of complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst looks at pharmacists' current attitudes
What is the dm+d and what will it mean for you and pharmacy practice? 199-200
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Paul Frosdick and Christine Dalton describe how the Dictionary of Medicines and Devices fits in with National Programme for Information Technology and the NHS Care Records Service, and what it will mean for pharmacy
Reviews PDF (65K) 201
Disease management by Michael D. Randall and Karen E. Neil Text 201
Risk, communication and health psychology by Dianne C. Berry Text 201
Dictionary of pharmacovigilance by Amer Alghabban Text 201
Onlooker PDF (60K) 202
No end to Baskerville riddle I gather from my local newspaper that the myths and legends surrounding the famous hound of the Baskervilles are entering yet another cycle. Since its genesis in 1901, the Arthur Conan Doyle masterpiece has been criticised in detail by a host of writers on both sides of the Atlantic Text
The chemical universe poses a health threat In The Lancet for 10 July, Robert Walgate describes the World Health Organization's struggle with the international companies responsible for spreading chemical pollution throughout the world. A recent conference in Budapest heard how thousands of possibly hazardous chemicals are loose in our living space. Children are particularly at risk of suffering from their effects Text
Was it climatic or cultural change that led to the Neanderthals' demise? There is no end, apparently, to the arguments over the decline and fall of Neanderthal man. He was not a biological ancestor of modern humans but a parallel development. He inhabited Europe just before modern Homo sapiens sapiens took his place in the drama Text
The Society PDF (210K) 203-206
• Statutory Committee clarification on meaning of “personal
control” The Medicines Act 1968 requirement that a retail pharmacy business should be under the personal control of a pharmacist does not mean that a pharmacy needs to be closed to the public whenever there is no pharmacist present, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Statutory Committee has decided Text 203
• Members in Scotland urged to vote “yes” on revised
Charter Text 203
• Devolution review group's first meeting Text 203
• Charter ballot: more questions and answers Text 204
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 204
August 2004 amendments Text
Official notices 2001
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