Leading
Article PDF (50K) 748
New look at Registers 748
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Following the furore earlier in the year over the splitting of the Register and the introduction of the new fee structure, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council agreed at its meeting last week to re-examine the issues
News & Features 749-756
News summary 749-753
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Contract 2005
Locums can use new contract as an opportunity to increase marketability 754
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Should community pharmacy locums have concerns about how they will deliver the new pharmacy contract? Hannah Pike finds out
Implementing Contract 2005
New contract: three months further on 755-756
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In the second of a series of articles following contractors in England as they implement the new community pharmacy contract through the year,
Tom Moberly looks at how they have coped with the challenges that the first three months of implementation have thrown up
Products PDF (60K) 757
• Products Text 757
• Announcements Text 757
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 758
Implications of medication reviews for postgraduate education and training 758
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By Sharon Steel
Letters PDF (80K) 759-760
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CPD / CPPE / Reciprocity / Prescribing / The Society / Technicians
Agenda for 2005 761-762
Agenda for 2005
Why the profession of pharmacy must engage in a debate about revalidation 761-762
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In this article, Gill Hawksworth, who was president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society from 2003–04), gives her personal view that revalidation of practising pharmacists is inevitable and that members of the Society must prepares themselves for that future
Original papers 763-765
Evaluation of an automated dispensing system in a hospital pharmacy dispensary 763-765
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By Ray Fitzpatrick, Peter Cooke, Carol Southall, Kelly Kauldhar and Pat Waters
Aim — To evaluate a new type of automated dispensing
system (Consis), in a hospital pharmacy
Articles 766
Contract 2005
New resource collates pharmacists’ concerns about pharmacy contract 766
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Zoë Gross reports on what community pharmacists are really saying about the new contract
Meetings 767
Reports
British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers 767
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Onlooker PDF (100K) 768
An island sanctuary at risk An editorial in Science, 13 May, paints a grim picture of the future of the wildlife in the Galapagos islands Text
Violence prompts violence in its witnesses An investigation by social scientists from the University of Michigan and Harvard Medical School and reported in the 27 May issue of Science indicates that individuals who witness acts of gun violence are more likely than others to engage in violent behaviour
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“Is this a dagger which I see before me?” For some time I have experienced revulsion when I have come across a display of wicked looking kitchen knives or butchery utensils on the accessible shelves of a hardware store or supermarket Text
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Prescribing & Medicines
Management PDF (130K) insert
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Approaches to medication reviews PM1
Do pharmacists, doctors and nurses take different
approaches to medication review? Clare Bellingham finds out
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What PCTs achieve with the Medicines Management Services Collaborative PM2
In this article, Rachel Farrall and Ian Pye, both assistant programme developers
in the medicines management team at the National Prescribing Centre, relate some
achievements of primary care trusts through the Medicines Management Services
Collaborative
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Prescribing in a rheumatology clinic PM3
Mark Thomas, lead clinical pharmacist for ward services at the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Gateshead, details his experience of setting up a supplementary prescribing
rheumatology clinic
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Making improvements across an SHA PM4
In this article, Sarah Alton and Steve Morris, member and chairman, respectively,
of the Faculty of Medicines Management, describe the actions taken in South Yorkshire
to encourage joint working and to improve medicines management across an entire
health community
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The Society PDF (1
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• June Council meeting: attendance and guests Text 769
• Working group to carry out urgent review of Society’s fee structure Text 769
• Infringements Committee to be more flexible Text 769
• Conference Committee chairman need not be Council member Text 769
• Council members’ concerns about ensuring fee structure is equitable Text 770
• Council orders review of long-term implications of CPD programme Text 771
• New procedures agreed for Council meetings Text 772
• Mechanism agreed for appointing members of Section 60 committees Text 772
• Council may appoint one of its 10 lay member to support the Officers Text 772
• Society’s new President sets out his priorities for the year 2005–06 Text 773
• From pharmacy graduate to pharmacist The role of the registration examination and the board of examiners Text 774-775
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
to present
• Professional judgement needed in sales of Valoid (cyclizine) Text 775
• Handwriting exemption for Controlled Drug prescribing Text 775
• Instalment dispensing of diazepam on FP10(MDA) Text 775
• Two distinguished pharmacists designated as fellows of the Society Text 776
• Pharmacists in Scotland are urged to respond to Society’s consultation on national boards Text 776
• Revised edition of ‘Drugs of abuse’ published Text 776
• Scottish branch officers meet to discuss executive’s communications strategy Text 776
Official notices 2001
to present
• Wales annual general meeting Text 777
• New fellows Text 777
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 777
Obituaries & tributes Text 777
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 778
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Charitable requests Text
Corrections Text 757
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Resources Text
Wants Text
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