Leading
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Engage GPs in the IT process 70
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Plans by the Department of Health to have GPs able to offer patients at least four choices of where they are treated by the end of the year look unlikely to be achieved. Only 60 to 70 per cent of GPs will have access to the preferred electronic booking service by December 2005. This will come as little surprise to those doom-mongers in the IT and health industries who raise their eyebrows and shrug their shoulders at any mention of IT, implementation, NHS and success in the same sentence
News & Features 71-78
News summary 71-75
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Influenza — the calm before the storm? 76-77
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Last week levels of influenza-like illnesses in England reached the highest levels seen this winter, triggering media claims of an imminent epidemic. However, strategies adopted in recent years may have made this less likely — except when the world looks east. Hannah Pike investigates
How pharmacists can support self-care 78
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Last week, the Department of Health published a document explaining why self-care is important, what action needs to be taken to promote it and how this might happen. Clare Bellingham finds out the implications for pharmacy
Products PDF (45K) 79
• Products Text 79
• Drug tariff updates Text 79
Scottish tariff shortages
England and Wales (NCSO)
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 79
SP10 Drug Tariff dressing packs
Broad Spectrum 80
The Department’s latest intervention in the Charter consultation is one too far 80
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By Stephen Axon
Letters PDF (100K) 81-86
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The Society / Overseas pharmacists / Fellowship / Diamorphine / Morphine sulphate / Chloramphenicol / Drug donations / The Journal
Articles 87-91
Humanitarian assistance: who should provide it and what does it involve? 87-89
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In this article, Ed England gives an overview of what is involved in the provision of humanitarian assistance
New drug technologies
Development of drug delivery systems that match the circadian rhythm 90-91
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In the sixth article in our series looking at developments in drug technologies, Jenny Bryan describes why emphasis should now be placed on the development of drug delivery systems that take account of variations in bodily functions, such as blood pressure, during the day and night
Off the record 89
Off the record
Patients’ confidence in their pharmacist is important 89
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Patients’ confidence in their pharmacists is an essential part of community pharmacy. It is this trust which plays a significant part in reducing some of the life threatening and circumstantial dispensing errors. The key to this confidence depends upon communal respect, courtesy, close working relationships and good counselling techniques
Onlooker PDF (60K) 92
How to make sure that an election is truly democratic As the recent presidential election in Ukraine demonstrated, elections can be rigged in favour of an incumbent leader or ruling party. In that case, the supreme court invalidated the first election result and ordered a closely monitored rerun, which produced a different result. But the way in which other elections due in other parts of the world are conducted is widely seen as a cause for deep concern Text
Chemistry suffers a changing image with the passage of time The public image of chemistry is an important factor in determining the choice of an academic subject of study by young school-leavers. But from time to time it changes, as described in a paper by Vikki Allen in Chemistry World for December 2004 Text
So much to do … The comment “So little done, so much to do …”, with all the sense of frustration that it carries, is reported to have been made by Cecil Rhodes on his deathbed in 1902. A more healthy attitude might be to concentrate on the matter at hand to the best of one’s ability before considering the tasks that lie in the future. Yet detachment from all considerations affecting past and future is virtually impossible in this life, and might even prove dangerous in some situations Text
The Society PDF (300K) 93-98
• Majority of pharmacists have now renewed their registration for 2005 Text 93
• Interest in technician register Text 93
• New date for talk to trainees Text 93
• Research abstracts invited for BPC 2005 Text 93
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
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• Fitness for locum duties Text 93
• The retention fee process for 2005: addressing members’ concerns Text 94-95
Treasures of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society’s Collections series
• ‘Icones plantarum medicinalium’ by Josephus Andreas Jacobus Plenck Text 95
Statutory Committee Reports
• Reprimand for pharmacist after series of dispensing errors Text 96
• Restoration refused after further offences Text 96
• Name restored to register Text 96
Official notices 2001
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• Council election 2005 Text 97
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 97
Obituaries & tributes Text 97
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 98
• Society meetings Text 98
History of Chinese herbal medicine (February 9)
Stability testing of pharmaceuticals (February 21-23)
• Future events Text 79
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
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Corrections Text 79
Harrow and Hillingdon branch meetings
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