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Unintended consequences 668
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It is the unintended consequences that tend to scupper the best-laid plans. The provision of out-of-hours primary health care services is a case in point. It has been suggested that when patients found out that GPs would no longer have to provide an emergency service under the terms of their new contract, they thought there would be no GP-provided out-of-hours service at all. As a result, accident and emergency departments have reported increasing numbers of inappropriate attenders. This problem may have been further compounded by the departure of numbers of A&E doctors in recent months — attracted to general practice by the improved terms and conditions of pay
News & Features 669-675
News summary 669-674
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Is the new contract good or bad news? 675
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Pharmacists have now had a week to digest the details of the new community pharmacy contract. What is the verdict? Clare Bellingham reports
POEMs 674
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Fondaparinux better for orthopaedic prophylaxis than enoxaparin 674
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Products PDF (65K) 676-677
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Clarification: Contract Text 677
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• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 676
Bricanyl and Pulmicort inhalers
Broad Spectrum 678
A new dawn or an inevitable dusk? 678
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By Jignesh Patel, Imran Khan and Alan Castell
Letters PDF (100K) 679-683
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New contract / Medicines management / Registration examination / Levothyroxine / Hiccups / Prescription pricing / IT / Personal control / Control of entry / Supermarket pharmacies / Retention fees / The Society / The Journal
Agenda for 2004 684-685
Agenda for 2004
New apothecaries: how pharmacists can protect their independence in the NHS 684-685
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Contract 2005 686
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How to dispose of unwanted medicines 686
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In this article, part of a series about the new community pharmacy contract in England and Wales, Clare Bellingham describes the requirements around the disposal of unwanted medicines
Continuing Professional Development
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Surgery and venous thromboembolism 687-689
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In the fifth article of a series on peri-operative care, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie give an overview of the causes and predisposing risks of venous thromboembolism in patients who have undergone a surgical procedure and non-pharmacological methods of prevention
Articles 690-692
Implementation of pharmaceutical care model schemes in Grampian 690-692
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Airlie Bryce, George Downie and Caroline Hind describe how community pharmacists in north east Scotland became involved in the provision of enhanced pharmaceutical care services in order to optimise patients' benefit from the medicines
Meetings 693-695
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Non-medical prescribing 694
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Proprietary Association of Great Britain 695
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Onlooker PDF (120K) 696
US turns away foreign graduate students Data released on 7 September, according to a news item in Nature for 16 September, indicate that the number of foreign graduate students admitted to leading research institutions in the US has declined precipitously this year. The effect is attributed to changes in the method of issuing visas resulting from the terrorist
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Tackling the perplexing problems of cleaning lacquered masterpieces Furniture made and decorated in the Far East is often treated by lacquering and its conservation and preservation in museums for many years poses problems of cleaning Text
The benefits of learning a language other than one’s mother tongue There is a deplorable tendency nowadays to neglect the wider value of what are called the arts and the humanities in our educational programmes in favour of concentrating on what will give an individual better commercial or bureaucratic skills
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The Society PDF (250K) 697-700
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• Call for 2005 international achievement award nominations Text 697
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• Society to take part in Health Libraries week Text 698
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 698
November 2004 amendments Text
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