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What the census reveals 588
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Less than 50 per cent of pharmacists are in full-time employment, a fact revealed by Karen Hassell, senior research fellow at the School of Pharmacy, University of Manchester, when she spoke at the meeting of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council earlier this month. Dr Hassell has been examining the data collected from the Society’s pharmacy workforce census carried out in late 2003. From the census, a whole host of interesting facts and figures have emerged that will delight the most ardent of would-be Ben Schotts
News & Features 589-594
News summary 589-594
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Products PDF (90K) 595
• Products Text 595
Cardiff pharmacy student wins SET award Text 595
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Letters PDF (90K) 596-599
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Concordance / Medicines distribution / Pharmacy education / Management training / Medicines stability / New contract / Technicians / Prescription charge / Personal control / Private dispensing / Dispensing / Health services / Drug delivery / The Society / The Journal
Agenda for 2004 600-601
Agenda for 2004
New European policy could abolish control of entry whatever NHS wants 600-601
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By Catherine Hale and Darrin Baines
Contract 2005 602
Contract 2005
How to offer a medicines use review 602
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In this article, in a series about the new community pharmacy contract in England and Wales, Clare Bellingham examines the medicines use review and prescription intervention advanced services
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 603-605
Recent articles
Managing anaemia in renal failure 603-604
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In May 2004 updated European Best Practice Guidelines for the management of renal anaemia were published. John Sexton and Marc Vincent review the management of this condition
Original papers 606-609
The utility and feasibility of a community pharmacist-supported protocol assessment of eligibility for OTC statin treatment 606-609
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By John Blenkinsopp, Jeremy Cottrell and Stephen G. Mann
Aim—To test the feasibility, utility and specificity
of a protocol to identify people suitable for treatment with simvastatin, to
obtain feedback from community pharmacists’ and pharmacy customers’ experience
of using the protocol and to identify pharmacists’ further training needs
Articles 610-614
Can nutraceuticals offer hope for
future treatments for cognitive decline? 610-614
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Several nutraceuticals are marketed as being able to
enhance “brain power”.
In this article, Jonathan Berry and Brian Lockwood examine
the evidence behind the claims
 British
Pharmaceutical Conference 2004 PDF (250K) 615-620
BPC reports & future conferences
Do not promote the use of medicines at the expense of the public’s health 615
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Public health integral to pharmacy contract 615
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Build links with local community 615
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Positive Scottish practice 616
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Success of Scottish Medicines Consortium 616
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NHSnet connection in community pharmacy 616
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Clinical governance: how pharmacies in a local area can be compared 617
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Skill mix and technician checking are key to many pharmacy developments 618
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Experiences of being an early implementer of Agenda for Change 618
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Are natural product medicines safe? / Natural products key to drug discovery
/ Trial design for herbal products 619
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Product life cycle management is a challenge for PCT and industry staff 620
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Reviews PDF (55K) 621
Sociology for pharmacists by Kevin Taylor, Sarah Nettleton and Geoffrey Harding Text 621
Psychotropic drug directory by Stephen Bazire
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Herbal medicine: keys to physiomedicalism including pharmacopoeia by Christopher Menzies-Trull
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Medical law and research by Stephen I. Ankier Text 621
Onlooker PDF (80K) 622
Addiction to the goggle box Two articles published in The Lancet for 17 July draw attention to the unhealthy aspects of too much television watching by children and adolescents Text
Global health and moral values interact The prospects for human health in a world under increasing threat from AIDS, terrorism, environmental destruction and political indifference are problematical Text
Grim warnings about the prospect of disastrous climatic warming Some progress is being reported in agreements over the many climate studies carried out for several decades. Researchers are in fair agreement that our world has risen in temperature by about 0.6C during the past century, most of the effect being thought to be attributable to human activity in burning fossil fuels to produce carbon dioxide. However, assessments of climate science have been vague in respect of future warming Text
The Society PDF (290K) 623-628
• Society invites members to attend devolution meetings as
observers Text 623
• Welsh minister welcomes pharmacy’s contribution to facing health challenges Text 623
• Pass rate 71.4pc in autumn registration examination Text 623
• Why the Society’s fee structure has to change Text 624
• Best practice shared by branch secretaries Text 624
• October Council meeting
• Clarification: Registration examination Text 624
• Full-time workers make up less that half the register Text 625-626
Official notices 2001
to present
• Registration examination successes Text 627
Obituaries & tributes Text 627-628
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• Branch meetings Text 628
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 595
• Conferences Text 595
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Charitable requests Text
Corrections Text
Resources Text 595
Schizophrenia support
Wants Text 595
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