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To stay on the Register … 802
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This week the Privy Council has approved the
proposed changes to the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists that mean
that pharmacists will have to decide whether or not they are practising
or non-practising. To coincide with this announcement, a leaflet produced
by the Society is being distributed with this issue of The Journal explaining
the differences between practising and non-practising and what the new
retention form will look like. In addition, we are publishing a News
feature covering the issue
News & Features 803-810
News summary 803-808
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To practise or not: that is the question 809-810
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Members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society will begin to receive requests for next year’s retention fees from 7 December. The fee structure has been simplified and pharmacists now have to declare themselves as either practising or non-practising. Clare Bellingham reports
Products PDF (50K) 811
• Announcements Text 811
• Products Text 811
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 812
Can the workforce deliver the goods? 812
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By Peter Magirr
Letters PDF (85K) 813-816
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New contract / Oxygen / Registration exam / Community pharmacy / Complementary medicine / CPD / The Society / The Journal
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 817-818
Recent articles
Can hangovers be prevented or cured? 817-818
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As party season kicks off, Pam Mason takes a look at some old and new hangover remedies and the theories behind how they might work
Original papers 819-827
General practitioners' views on recent and proposed medicine switches
from POM to P 819-821
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By Emma Bayliss and Paul Rutter
Aim —To determine GP attitudes to continued and
proposed deregulation of medicines from POM to P status
An evaluation of the safety and acceptability of an anticoagulation
clinic in a community pharmacy setting — a pilot study 822-824
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By Bridget Coleman, Carl Martin, Nick Barber and David Patterson
Aim —To assess the acceptability and safety, and
patients’ perspectives, of an anticoagulation monitoring service offered
by community pharmacists
Community pharmacists can provide useful advice on prescribing for outpatients
to hospital pharmacy departments 825-827
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By Ros Palmer and Michael Wilcock
Aim —To test the feasibility of using the skills
and knowledge of community pharmacists in advising and reporting on specific
aspects of hospital outpatient prescribing via FP10HP
Articles 828
December IJPP: needle exchanges, and homeless women and children 828
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In this article, research published in the December issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice is highlighted by Helen Bond
Meetings 829-831
Reports
Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group 829-830
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Scottish Pharmacy Conference 831
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Onlooker PDF (90K) 832
Chemistry: once far from a pure science In an essay published in Science for 5 November, Ursula Klein, a science historian from Berlin, has reviewed the different habits of chemists in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the change in background which they adapted to their purposes Text
More on the mysterious custom of bedecking trees with rags or shoes Since I mentioned the habit of hanging scraps of clothing on bushes overhanging springs or wells, I have come across some interesting sidelights on this practice in a newsletter dealing with plant lore Text
How the restoration of paintings has become an art in itself There recently seems to have been a spate of articles dealing with the art of preservation and restoration. In Nature for 23 September David Erhardt, of the Smithsonian Institution, discusses the cleaning of paintings, something which, as he puts it, “is one of the most controversial activities that can be conducted in a museum” Text
The Society PDF (320K) 833-836
• Privy Council approves Society’s new structure for retention fees Text 833
• Society publishes new diabetes guidance Text 833
• Devolution review group to recommend a Welsh language scheme Text 834
• Cut-off date looms for assistants’ declaration of competence forms Text 834
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 698
December 2004 amendments Text
Official notices 2001
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• Statutory Committee decision Text 835
• Parliamentary Fund: return of contributions Text 835
Obituaries & tributes Text 835
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