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Make your voice heard 452
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Pharmacists need assertiveness training. That suggestion came from John D’Arcy, chief executive of the National Pharmaceutical Association, when he was chairing a session on leadership and pharmacy at the British Pharmaceutical Conference earlier this week
News & Features 453-461
News summary 453-457
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BPC news 458-459
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Standard operating procedures: time to knuckle down and get writing 460-461
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The deadline of 1 January 2005 for having mandatory standard operating procedures for dispensing in place in individual pharmacies is looming. Should pharmacists be worried if they have not got their act together yet? Zoë Gross investigates
Products PDF (75K) 462-463
• Products Text 462
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Broad Spectrum 464
The concept of concordance appears to be internationally understood 464
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By Joanne Shaw
Letters PDF (80K) 465-468
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Personal control / Cholesterol testing / Charitable donations / Returned medicines / Dispensing / The profession / The Society / The Charter / Retention fee
Contract 2005 469
Contract 2005
A role in promoting healthy lifestyles 469
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In this third 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 looks at public health and support for self-care
Agenda for 2004 470-471
Agenda for 2004
Community pharmacy must be better recognised as integral to the NHS? 470-471
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By Hemant Patel and Raj Radia
Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Pharmacists and their CPD in 2004 472-474
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By November, all pharmacists with registered addresses
in Great Britain will have received their “Plan and record” through the post.
The Journal asked a handful of pharmacists to give an example of the continuing
professional development they have done this year
Articles 475-477
New drug technologies series
Crossing the blood-brain barrier: drug delivery to the brain is still elusive 475-476
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In this third article in our series looking at developments in drug technologies, Jenny Bryan describes the development of techniques to get drugs across the blood-brain barrier
Complementary medicine
Hunches in complementary medicine 477
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In the third article in our series on complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst asks if these treatments should be available to all
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Pharmaceutical Conference 2004 458-459
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BPC reports & future conferences
News 458-459
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Conference on Camera 480-481
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Reports from the Conference PDF (410K) 478-479
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Pharmacists open door to NHS change 478
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Pharmacy faces many challenges, says President 479
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NHS determined to ensure potential of pharmacy, says Sir Nigel Crisp 479
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Where the future lies for prescribers 482
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Pharmacist prescribing: the reality 483
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Chief pharmacists: “state of the nation” 484
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Nanomedicines in action 485-488
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In her Science Chairman's address to the British Pharmaceutical Conference on
28 September, Ruth Duncan discussed a new multidisciplinary field that is already
making a significant contribution to improved health care and that could revolutionise
practice by the end of the century
Meetings 489-495
Reports
FIP: World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 489-495
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Onlooker PDF (70K) 496
A controversial chemist I am reminded by a historical profile by Colin Russell of Cambridge in Chemistry World for September of a controversial but certainly prominent chemist, namely Johann Rudolph Glauber, who was born 400 years ago Text
SIDS: strange syndrome still baffling the experts The strange condition known as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was originally described in 1969 to account for unexplained deaths of children before their first birthday. Much refining of the definition has been carried out by expert groups of paediatricians and forensic pathologists, without a completely satisfactory conclusion Text
Dismal history of the religious fanatic Religious fanaticism reaches far into the past of the human race. It is impossible to estimate how old this revolting trait really is Text
The riddle of Socrates Text
Prescribing & Medicines
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Back issues
Gear up for Ask About Medicines Week PM1
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How to encourage the general public to take their medicines responsibly PM2
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Following the huge success of our Ask About Medicines event in 2003, a collaborative initiative between South and Central Manchester Primary Care trusts, South Manchester prescribing team is to host a further Ask About Medicines Week event on 4 November, says Ashley Harling
CPPE helps pharmacists incorporate concordance into everyday practice PM3
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The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education has been running a concordance programme to help pharmacists become more involved in patient partnership. Zoë Gross investigates
Supplementary prescribing provides a great deal of professional satisfaction PM4
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Pharmacists have come a long way in a short time since they were allowed to become supplementary prescribers, says Debbie Andalo
The Society PDF (230K) 497-502
• Three-year terms of office agreed for members of reformed Council Text 497-498
• Regulation of dispensing/ pharmacy assistants: declarations
of competence under grandparent clause arrangements Text 497
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 499
October 2004 amendments Text
Official notices 2001
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• Proposed regulations: Elections to the reformed Council Text 499-501
• Proposed regulations: Appointed members to the reformed Council Text 501
• Statutory Committee decisions Text 501
• Erasures from Register on direction of Statutory Committee Text 501
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