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Practising in the modern era 406
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Pharmacists who work part time are revolting — or at least threatening to revolt. The correspondence columns of The Journal are still reverberating six weeks after the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council decision to do away with the part-time retention fee was announced. As a result, many part-time pharmacists — particularly those in the older age groups — seem to have decided to leave the register altogether and not take up the opportunity to join the non-practising register
News & Features 407-414
News summary 407-412
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Pharmacists’ role in the Children’s NSF 413-414
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The National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services was published last week by the Department of Health. Hannah Pike examines the implications for pharmacists in England
POEMs 412
POEMs series
Amantadine improves markers in hepatitis C 412
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Products PDF (50K) 415
• Products Text 415
• Announcements Text 415
• Drug tariff updates Text 415
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 416
Why the current situation doubly disadvantages children with cancer 416
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By Jane Buckham, Tasneem Khalid, Nigel Ballantine, Vicky Holden and Julie Mycroft
Letters PDF (80K) 417-420
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Patients' own drugs / APPS / CHRE / Homoeopathy / Retention fee / The register / The Society / The Journal
Contract 2005 421
Contract 2005
How dispensing will operate in future 421
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In this second article in a series that provides an overview of the services community pharmacists will be expected to offer under the new contract in England and Wales, Clare Bellingham examines dispensing and repeat dispensing
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 422-424
Recent articles
Tuberculosis series
Treating drug-resistant tuberculosis 422-424
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June Minton, Yogini Jani and Anthony Grosso look at the prevention of tuberculosis and the treatment of drug-resistant strains
British Pharmaceutical Conference 2004 425-433
BPC
A review of the science presentations 425-428
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Pharmacy practice research reviewed 429-433
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Meetings 434-443
Reports
FIP: World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 434-443
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Onlooker PDF (70K) 444
Weeding out the fiction A comment by Dean Wingerchuk of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of the Mayo Clinic, published in The Lancet for 24 July, examines some of the evidence for and against the medical use of cannabis for refractory neurological symptoms such as pain, spasticity, tremor and sleep disorders. In spite of assertions that cannabis confers benefits in such conditions, there have been social and legal obstacles to serious clinical evaluation of this substance Text
Threat to breeding birds of the British coast In Science for 20 August there is an account by Fiona Proffitt of a wildlife disturbance that is deeply worrying to ornithologists and their representative bodies such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Text
A strange syndrome: from tics to Tourette’s Georges Gilles de la Tourette was a neurologist who worked at the Salpêtriere Hospital in Paris. In 1885 he first described the syndrome now known by his name as the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome Text
The Society PDF (270K) 445-450
• September Council meeting: attendance and guests Text 445
• Council agrees that draft Charter should
go forward to Privy Council Text 445
• Opposition to Charter amendment that restricts
new Council’s power to take decisions to the membership Text 446-447
• Council endorses clarification of procedure
for introducing new membership categories Text 447
• New Council to come into being on the day
after the 2005 AGM Text 447
• Council to have no role in selecting academic
member of new Council Text 448
• Governance committee to review Council convention
on circulation of correspondence Text 448
• Regulations drafted on elections to new Council Text 448
• CPD toolkit on agenda for branch secretaries Text 449
• Society takes part in Open House weekend Text 449
• Society’s agent now ready to accredit assistants’ courses Text 449
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
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• Talking to the media Text 449
• Hypromellose preparations Text 449
Obituaries & tributes Text 450
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• Branch meetings Text 450
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 415
• Conferences Text 415
• Reunions Text 415
Welsh pharmacy school
Awards Text 415
UKCPA leadership award
Charitable requests Text
Corrections Text 415
Agenda for change
Payment of 2005 fees
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