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The future is pharmacy 196
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Although the winds of change blowing through community pharmacy at the moment may have an icy edge to them, the future may not be so bleak. Some issues are explored in this week’s News feature, which examines the impact of the changes in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Register and the new contracts on recruitment in community pharmacy
Putting NICE guidance into practice 196
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Implementing guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence is not as easy as it should be. NICE was primarily established to end postcode prescribing so that people had equal access to new therapies wherever they lived. In practice, that has only happened partially
News & Features 197-202
News summary 197-200
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How the new contract and changes to the Register may affect recruitment 201-202
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The imminent new community pharmacy contract and changes to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Register may combine to create problems for pharmacy recruitment. Debbie Andalo investigates
Products PDF (40K) 203
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• Drug tariff updates Text 203
Scottish tariff shortages
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 203
Norton Healthcare lorazepam
Agenda for 2005 204
Agenda for 2005
Should multiprofessional deaneries replace lecturer-practitioners? 204
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By Bruce Warner and David Gerrett
Letters PDF (75K) 205-207
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Medicines for children / Labelling / Morphine sulphate / Complementary medicine / CPD / Co-proxamol withdrawal / The Council / The profession / The Journal / Support staff
Vision for pharmacy 208
Vision for pharmacy
Putting NICE guidance into practice 208
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A health community in the south west of England has developed a structured programme for tackling implementation of National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance. The result is a consistent approach across primary care trusts and providers. Harriet Adcock finds out what is involved
Articles 209-215
Hot competition for places at Kingston 209
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In September last year, the department of pharmacy at Kingston University accepted its first intake of students. Dawn Connelly visited the university to find out how it is preparing its MPharm students for future pharmacy practice
Electronic prescribing and patient records — getting the balance right 210-212
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This year, all NHS trusts will implemented electronic prescribing and electronic patient records, but few have done so yet. Roy Foot and
Lorraine Taylor reflect on the implementation of a full electronic prescribing and medicines administration system within City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, give an insight into the capabilities and limitations of the system and question the impact it has had on pharmacy services
Supplementary prescribing in action — an example from primary care 213-214
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In this article, Lorna Smalley describes how supplementary prescribing can work in primary care, in a pharmacist-led hypertension clinic
Who decides? UK public perception of decisions about care and medicines 215
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Caroline Kelham, Geraldine Mynors and Joanne Shaw, of the Medicines Partnership, look at the results of a commissioned MORI poll
Onlooker PDF (65K) 216
Testing medicines by the swing of the pendulum We hear a great deal nowadays about the unexpected and undesirable effects of taking medicines, whether obtained over the counter or on prescription. They may interact with other medicines or with food, or they may have no discernible benefit for the sufferer. Moreover, there is a growing suspicion of the prescriber’s competence in some patients’ minds, and of the power of the manufacturer’s advertising tactics Text
Advertising medicines direct to consumers: mere information or subtle persuasion? The advertising of medicines available on prescription has always been the subject of argument. It has recently been criticised because of the rather doubtful matter of how much emphasis should be placed upon possible side-effects as compared with likely benefits
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Is the remedy in sight for hunger in our world? In October 2002 the United Nations drew up what it called the Hunger Task Force. People came from varied backgrounds to discuss the matter, and both developed and developing countries were represented Text
Let’s encourage the eccentrics! Text
The Society PDF (220K) 217-220
• More than 260 technicians have joined Society’s voluntary register Text 217
• Society announces consultation to inform its review of the PhD studentship award scheme Text 217
• Reminder that competencies lists are only a starting point Text 217
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