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Better communication 508
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Pharmacists became supplementary prescribers over a year ago — the first registered pharmacist to sign a prescription was pictured in The Journal on 27 March 2004. Earlier this month the Society hosted a meeting to discuss progress made over the past year and the description of proceedings makes uncomfortable reading
Whistle-blowing without fear 508
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Whatever walk of life you are in, calling a halt to someone else’s bad behaviour is intimidating. How many people nowadays even have the courage to tell teenagers not to drop litter in the street? How much harder it is for a professional to raise concerns about another professional person’s activities
News & Features 509-514
News summary 509-512
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Supplementary prescribing: one year on 513
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It is a year since the first pharmacist wrote a supplementary prescription. A group of supplementary prescribers met in London on 11 April to discuss the challenges they have faced. Clare Bellingham reports
Parliamentary committee recommends overhaul of pharmaceutical promotion 514
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The Health Select Committee’s report “The influence of the pharmaceutical industry” was published earlier this month. Dawn Connelly finds out which of its recommendations are relevant to pharmacists and what happens to the report following the general election next week
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Letters PDF (75K) 516-518
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Dispensing doctors / Council election / GlaxoSmithKline / Statins / Salamol / Supervision / The Society / The Journal
Original papers 519-524
Community pharmacists and continuing professional development — a qualitative study of perceptions and current involvement 519-524
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By Joanne Attewell, Alison Blenkinsopp and Patricia Black
Aim —To investigate community pharmacists’ perceptions
and ideas about what constitutes continuing professional development (CPD) and
to establish the types and amounts of CPD undertaken.
Raising concerns: Guidance for pharmacists and registered pharmacy technicians insert
Practice guidance checklists
Prepared by the Practice and Quality Improvement Directorate of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
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Meetings 525-527
Reports
Institute of Pharmacy Management International 525-526
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Diabetes UK annual professional conference 527
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Onlooker PDF (65K) 528
Memory depicted as a two-faced Janus Janus,
to the ancient Romans, was the god of doors and gates, and depicted as a double-headed
person looking both ways. For the ancient Greeks, the mother of the muses was
Mnemosyne, meaning memory. The two have a curious interconnection Text
The cuckoo and the chiffchaff: distinctly different harbingers of spring There
is an ancient saying that the cuckoo is the “harbinger of spring”.
Acccording to the dictionary definition, a harbinger is a forerunner or someone
who announces the approach of someone else. We take it to mean that the cuckoo
marks the arrival of spring in advance of any other creature Text
Why Latin should be regarded as an important discipline for learning It
has recently been reported in the press that a £4.5m Government scheme
to promote the study of Latin in schools may come to nothing. The computer software
package was to have offered 1,000 activities and help non-specialists to teach
the language but it still does not work after three years of development. Without
prompt correction of the situation, many children will be denied the opportunity
to learn Latin — a subject that only 600 schools, 100 of them state schools,
now offer to their students Text
The Society PDF (300K) 529-532
• AGM motions seek new committees and information on Save Our Society Text 529
• Society updates continuing professional development support material Text 529
• Society publishes guidance on “whistle-blowing” Text 530
• Pharmaceutical Press launches a website for its academic journals Text 530
• Honorary auditors meet for the final time to approve the Society’s financial statements Text 531
• CPD software problem solved Text 531
• Teamwork is key to better care Text 531
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
to present
• Instalment dispensing Text 531
Official notices 2001
to present
• Annual general meeting Text 532
• Erasure from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee Text 532
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UKCPA award / Aseptic services
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