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Cutting the pharmacy cake 548
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New Zealand may have a much smaller population than Britain (just over four million people compared with about 60 million here) and may be a long way away. However, the challenges facing the New Zealand pharmacy profession uncannily mirror what pharmacists in Britain have experienced to such a degree that we make no apologies for describing recent events on the other side of the world
News & Features 549-556
News summary 549-554
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Learning from New Zealand pharmacy 555-556
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The parallels between the challenges faced by pharmacy in New Zealand and Britain are extraordinary. Bernard McKone, chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (Inc), tells Clare Bellingham about recent events and the impact on pharmacists
POEMs 554
POEMs series
SSRIs provide modest benefit in selected IBS patients 554
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Products PDF (80K) 557
• Products Text 557
• Announcements Text 557
Boots preregistration trainee of the year Text 557
Clarification: Job advertisements Text 557
PJCareers success Text 557
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Letters PDF (80K) 558-560
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Adherence / Medicines waste / Community pharmacy / Brand names / Tuberculosis / CPD / Counterfeit medicines / Geography
Contract 2005 561
Contract 2005
Meeting clinical governance standards 561
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Clinical governance is an important essential service in the new community pharmacy contract in England and Wales. Last week’s article introduced clinical governance and explained how the service has been structured. This article, by Clare Bellingham, expands on the topic
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 562-563
Recent articles
Intellectual property rights series
Trade marks and other types of IPR 562-563
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In our second article on intellectual property, Rachel Graham gives an overview of some more intellectual property rights relevant to pharmacy
Original papers 564-569
Strategic level pharmacists in primary care: activity, training and development needs 564-569
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By Jill Jesson, Alison Blenkinsopp, Keith Wilson and Christopher A. Langley
Aim—To investigate the training needed by, and provided for, strategic level pharmacists
working in primary care organisations
Off the record 569
Off the record
Schizophrenia and Sahaja yoga 569
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I used to work in a relatively quiet pharmacy in a small suburb. There were prescriptions but there was also some time to enjoy the job and to talk to customers
 British
Pharmaceutical Conference 2004 PDF (250K) 570-574
BPC reports & future conferences
Reality of new primary care contracts 570
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Repeat dispensing: working in practice 571
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Does new contract mean end of LPS? 572
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Patients satisfied with pharmacists’ interventions 572
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Can pharmacists rise to the challenge of chronic disease management? 573
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Lessons learnt from Evercare 573
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Pharmacists’ input into care pathways 573
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Can I be sued? How pharmacists can minimise the risk of negligence claims 574
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Carry out risk assessments in primary care 574
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Common causes of negligence claims in community pharmacy 574
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Meetings 575-577
Reports
UniChem 575-576
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UKMi 577
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Onlooker PDF (80K) 578
What little we could do and see if we did not have glass It is difficult to visualise a period in human history when we had no glass but 5,000 years ago there was probably no such thing Text
Sacred springs and their healing powers The ancient Romans celebrated their feast of Fontinalia on 13 October. It was dedicated to Fons, the god of springs, and there was an annual ceremony outside the Porta Fontinalis in Rome Text
Subjectivity is a terrible thing ... it reveals the author’s hands and feet Objectivity and subjectivity are two contrasting ways of approaching any problem faced by a human being Text
The Society PDF (330K) 579-586
• October Council meeting: attendance and guests Text 579
• Concerns raised about CHRE’s powers and its use of spin doctors Text 579-580
• Society and DoH in talks on supervision, personal control and GSLs Text 580
• Pharmacists in “grey areas” will be advised on registration category Text 581
• Litigation costs have not affected Society’s retention fees for 2005 Text 581
• Backing for Shipman proposals on regulating CDs Text 582
• Society has role in standards for new contract service Text 583
• Action on access to medical information Text 584
• Council agrees process for reviewing draft Section 60 Order when published later in year Text 584
• Branches asked for their views on devolution Text 584
• Registration exam to be reviewed Text 584
• Pharmaid BNF collection Text 584
• Leaflet on antibiotics for medicines week Text 584
Official notices 2001
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• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 585
Obituaries & tributes Text 403-404
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 586
• Society meetings Text 585-586
Education in pharmacy (24 November)
EU clinical trials directive (3 December)
• Future events Text 557
• Conferences Text 557
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Charitable requests Text
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Resources Text 557
Feasting and fasting / New pharmacy contract
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