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Brave new world 504
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How successfully the new community pharmacy contract will be implemented depends on a whole range of factors. The development of community clinical services will depend on the willingness of pharmacists and primary care organisations to work together to use pharmacy to its fullest potential and on patients choosing pharmacists to provide those services
Devolution comments invited 504
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Although health policy is a devolved responsibility to the administrations in Wales and Scotland, health regulation remains a UK power vested in Westminster. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, as both professional body and regulator, now finds that some of its policy issues — covering professional matters — may be given a slightly different focus in the three home countries. So the Society is inviting members to comment on these differences and consider what divergence is essential and desirable
News & Features 505-510
News summary, including R&D news 505-509
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What do patients want from pharmacy? 510
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All community pharmacies will have to conduct patient satisfaction surveys under the new contract. Clare Bellingham finds out about one organisation that has already surveyed nearly 1,000 patients at 53 pharmacies in England and Wales
Products PDF (45K) 511
• Products Text 511
• Announcements Text 511
Clarification and apology Text 511
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 511
Vioxx and VioxxAcute
Broad Spectrum 512
What will happen when prescription medicines are treated like car parts 512
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By Bob Gartside
Letters PDF (100K) 513-518
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Pharmacy education / Primary care / Community pharmacy / Technicians / Acute diverticulitis / Oxygen / Dispensing errors / Charitable donations / Returned medicines / BPC / Blood-brain barrier / CPD / Overseas membership / The register / Retention fee / The Society / The Journal
Contract 2005 519
Contract 2005
Meeting clinical governance standards 519
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Clinical governance is a major part of the essential services section of the new community pharmacy contract in England and Wales. In this article, and in a second article to be published next week, Clare Bellingham examines the relevant issues
Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
CPD answers: Dosage regimen design Text 511
Intellectual property rights series
Patents and pharmaceuticals 520-521
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In the first of two articles on intellectual property, Rachel Graham introduces the topic and sets out the general rules relating to patents
Articles 522-524
Electronic signatures: a risky business 522-523
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Stephen Mason sets out the types of electronic signature currently in use and some of the risks when relying on them
Should hospitals be allowed to charge what they like for private prescriptions? 524
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In this article, Irene Heywood Jones describes an incident that highlights an anomaly in private prescription charges between hospital and community pharmacy services
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Pharmaceutical Conference 2004 525-535
BPC reports & future conferences
Conference on Camera 526-527
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Reports from the Conference PDF (430K) 525,
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Pharmacists must embrace science 525
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Non-adherence with drugs more likely if patients’ beliefs are ignored 525
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We need to develop new medicines more quickly and more economically 528
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Call for a different way of analysing clinical trials, funded by public money 529
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Pharmacy education is at a crossroads 530
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Tissue engineering set to bring benefits for patients 530
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Regulators likely to insist on genetic testing soon 531
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Formulation can influence gene expression and response to drugs 531
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Delivery is key to developing gene therapy products for patient use 531
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Nanomedicines: now in clinical use 532
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Point-of-care diagnostic testing: new technologies move from lab to desktop 533
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Pharmacists can help MHRA to regulate devices 533
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Robots benefit patients and staff in hospital and community pharmacies 534
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Holistic approach to MRSA is needed 535
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Meetings 536-539
Reports
Numark 536-537
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UniChem 538
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Palliative care pharmacists 539
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Onlooker PDF (80K) 540
Artist in society: a misfit? The ways of insurance agents are beyond the ken of ordinary humans, or so it appears to me Text
Enthusiasm the route to inhumanity We live today in a world where man’s inhumanity to man, as Robert Burns put it in 1786, “makes countless thousands mourn”. And, alarmingly enough, this human trait seems to be on the increase from day to day. It must have something to do with the general atmosphere of fear Text
Depression over the antidepressants A great deal of concern has been expressed lately — most recently in a BBC2 Panorama programme on 3 October — about undesirable effects experienced by some children treated with antidepressant drugs for depressive symptoms Text
The Society PDF (410K) 541-546
• Review group seeks members’ views on Society and devolution Text 541
• Society appoints a new head of professional ethics Text 541
• Discount offer on new 34th edition of Martindale Text 542
• New book on concordance published Text 542
• Society in talks with DoH on personal control and GSLs Text 542
• Views sought on Society and devolution Text PDF (120K) 543-544
• Two to share practice research awards totalling £50,000 Text 545
• Discount booking opens for BPC 2005 Text 545
• Visitor numbers up 10 per cent at BPC 2004 Text 545
• BPC 2004 attracts positive media coverage Text 545
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• Branch meetings Text 546
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 511
• Conferences Text 511
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Charitable requests Text
Corrections Text 511
Nicola Gray / CPD therapeutic drug monitoring article
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Resources Text 511
New NPC guide / SOP guide
Wants Text 511
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