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Light at the end of the tunnel 276
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In June 2003, a special general meeting of around 350 pharmacists asked the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to “arrange for a referendum of the entire membership to be held to establish the level of support for any proposed new Charter once the details of any such proposal(s) have been finalised”
Good news for community pharmacists 276
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This week’s announcement that the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has reached an agreement over the funding of the new community pharmacy contract is good news for pharmacists. It is another step — and a significant one at that — towards the new contract being implemented
News & Features 277-282
News summary 277-281
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New role to improve access in the NHS 282
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In future, patients’ first point of contact in the health service could be a “First Contact” practitioner. Two pharmacists in Doncaster who are currently training to take on the role told Clare Bellingham why they got involved and how they plan to use their new skills
Products PDF (85K) 283
• Products Text 283
Vantage pharmacists open new premises Text 283
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 283
Counterfeit Cialis tablets 20mg
Broad Spectrum 284
All that glisters is not gold! Confusion arises from identical tablet markings 284
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By Emma Graham-Clarke and Nigel Langford
Letters PDF (85K) 285-288
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Retention fee / Personal control / Shipman inquiry / BNF-C / Traditional Chinese medicine / Counselling / Publishing board / Overseas membership / Brewers' yeast / Bullying
Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Tuberculosis series
Tuberculosis — a general introduction 289-291
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In this first article in a series of four on tuberculosis, Alistair Storey presents the background to this resurgent infectious disease
Articles 292-295
New
drug technologies series
Transdermal drug delivery may be a common technique in the future 292-293
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In this second article in our series looking at developments in new drug technologies, Jenny Bryan describes the techniques that companies throughout the world are developing to push drugs through the skin
Keyless lockers help staff and patients 294-295
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In this article, Rose Lynas, Agnes Hunter, Dianne Gill, Bernadette Irvine, James McElnay and Michael Scott describe how a keyless locker was chosen and installed on an acute surgical ward as part of an integrated medicines management system
Onlooker PDF (90K) 296
Music the great catalyst, The theologian Richard Hooker remarked in 1597 that music is “a thing which delighteth all ages, and beseemeth all states; a thing as seasonable in grief as in joy” Text
Man's inhumanity to man exposed by US treatment of prisoners The 29 July issue of the New England Journal of Medicine makes grim reading. In it Robert Jay Lifton of Harvard and Susan Bachrach of Washington describe two deplorable episodes in recent human history which make one wonder whether any moral principles govern the world of power politics and whether the individual conscience is a machine that can be turned on or off as circumstances dictate Text
How conventional breeding techniques may lead to a naturally decaffeinated coffee bean In Nature for 24 June a group of biochemists from Brazil describe a method of producing a decaffeinated beverage without having to process a harvested crop of coffee grown in the usual fashion Text
Sweet are the uses of philosophy Text
The Society PDF (350K) 297-300
• Members vote “yes” on new Charter Text 297
• Team of facilitators recruited to support branches’ CPD programmes Text 297
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
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• Clarification on personal control Text 298
• Ian Wong to receive Conference practice research medal for 2004 Text 298
• Expanded edition of guide to working as a locum pharmacist Text 298
• Pharmaceutical Press books to be sold from the Society’s
library Text 299
Treasures
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Collections series
• Pharmacopoeia Londinensis 1618 (the London pharmacopoeia) Text 299
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• The branch, the pizza box and the future of pharmacy Text
• Healthy headlines: advice for would-be branch PROs Text
Obituaries & tributes Text 300
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• Branch meetings Text 300
• Society meetings Text 300
Tableting technology
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PLEA seminar
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Corrections Text 283
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