Leading
Articles PDF (50K) 154
Protecting the vulnerable 154
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Pharmacists are the eyes and ears of their local communities. They have an unrivalled view of the health and well-being of people who enter their premises. This brings some responsibility because they may notice how children and vulnerable adults are treated by parents and carers
Promoting pharmacists’ new role 154
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A survey by Which? has found that the public do not understand pharmacists’ new role in primary care. This is perhaps not too surprising at a time when new community pharmacy services are still in development
News & Features 155-160
News summary 155-158
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Audit Scotland recognises pharmacy’s important role in managing medicines 159-160
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Last week Audit Scotland published its report on how medicines are managed in hospitals. Dawn Connelly looks at the main recommendations and the implications for pharmacy in Scotland
Products PDF (120K) 161
• Products Text 161
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 161
Lipitor
3M Health Care inhalers
Letters PDF (70K) 162-163
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Preregistration / Registration / Adverse drug reactions / Birdsgrove House
Original papers 164-166
The Middlefield project — novel provision of pharmacy
services to a deprived city area 164-166
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By Michelle King, Kathleen McFarlane, Linda Juroszek and Christine Bond
Aim — To describe the first year of operation
of a novel pharmacy service, developed from a pharmaceutical needs assessment
Articles 167-169
Complementary medicine
Contamination of herbal medicines 167-168
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In the 13th article in a series on complementary medicine,
Edzard Ernst points to several cases of contamination of herbal medicines and
looks at advice to give to users
Child protection is everyone’s business 169
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Lord Laming, who conducted the inquiry into the death
of Victoria Climbie, said that every service has to play its part in the support
and protection of children. Joy Wingfield, professor of pharmacy law and ethics
at the University of Nottingham, looks at what this means for pharmacists
Meetings 170-171
Reports
Standing Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance 170
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Pharmacy education 171
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Onlooker PDF (160K) 172
“I will heal me of my grievous wound” Wounds of one sort or another must have been daily encounters since the human race made its troubled way through thickets and over mountains in the dawn of history. So it is not surprising to find records of many attempts to heal them with the help of natural products Text
The higher up the mountain the thinner grows the air At a recent conference in University College London, plans to investigate physiological adaptation to hypoxia included the outlining of a proposed scientific expedition to Everest Text
Coloured glass through the ages Percy Bysshe Shelley remarked that “Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity.” Text
The Society PDF (800K) 173-180
• National boards given go-ahead Text 173
• Amendment made to Society’s guidance on “Raising concerns” Text 173
• Society issues guidance on the role of pharmacists and technicians in protecting vulnerable patients Text 174
• Society to host international conference on the management of pharmaceutical quality Text 174
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 174
August 2005 amendments Text
• Protection of children and vulnerable adults (guidance)
The following guidance has been approved by the Law and Ethics Committee of the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council to assist pharmacists and registered
pharmacy technicians in safeguarding the welfare of children and adults who are
vulnerable
to abuse or neglect
Child protection PDF (80K) 175-177
Protection of vulnerable adults PDF (80K) 177-178
• VPG chairman stresses veterinary pharmacy’s public health benefits Text 179
• 30-year contribution marked Text 179
• VMD head confirms that pharmacy category for veterinary medicines is to disappear Text 179
Official notices 2001
to present
• Statutory Committee decisions Text 180
Obituaries & tributes Text 180
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Charitable requests Text
Corrections Text 161
MUR forms
Resources Text 161
Pharmacy business
Wants Text
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