Leading
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How to value yourself 326
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Many community pharmacists in England and Wales are still struggling to meet the 1 October deadline for the implementation of the new pharmacy contract in terms of essential services — let alone advanced services. The announcement, last week, of the specifications for the first batch of enhanced services will have done nothing for their morale
Is the end really in sight? 326
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Do we see a chink in the Department of Health's armour? Having prevaricated for years on a move to original patient pack dispensing on grounds of cost, the DoH has just launched a consultation “to simplify the reimbursement arrangements for NHS dispensing contractors”
News & Features 327-334
News summary 327-332
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Implementing Contract 2005
New contract: the run-up to October 333-334
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In the third of a series of articles following
contractors as they implement the new community pharmacy contract, Tom
Moberly looks at how they are coping in the run-up to the full implementation
of the new contract at the beginning of October
Products PDF (90K) 335
• Products Text 335
• Drug tariff updates Text 335
England and Wales
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Letters PDF (110K) 336-340
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Homoeopathy / Dermatology / Spacer devices / The profession / Best use of medicines / Pharmacists in the media / Reciprocity / Return to practice / The Society
Contract 2005 341-342
Contract 2005
Enhanced services: what is on offer 341-342
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Enhanced services form the third tier of the new community
pharmacy contract in England and Wales. Clare Bellingham examines the 10 enhanced
service specifications published last week
Agenda for 2005 343
Agenda for 2005
Shaping your future — a programme to support hospital pharmacy learning 343
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By Sarah Wills and Janice Mason-Duff, of the Workforce Academy at the University of Manchester school of pharmacy
Articles 344-348
How interrupted time series analysis can evaluate guideline implementation 344-347
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In this article Ed England describes interrupted time
series analysis and how it can help assess the effects of interventions in pharmacy
practice
Complementary medicine
Recommended information sources 348
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In this 14th article on complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst discusses the need for reliable sources of information and suggests useful texts for practising pharmacists who need to be able to find answers quickly
Meetings 349
Reports
Pharmacy Practice Research Trust 349
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Onlooker PDF (90K) 350
Why not consult patients about prescribing choice? Correspondence in The Lancet for 23 July raises the question of how far the views of the patient should be considered when it comes to prescribing a remedy on which some doubt has been thrown by evaluators Text
Virtues of soap and water are not strained An article by scientists from a number of disease-control centres, published in The Lancet for 16 July, describes effects of regular hand washing and bathing with soap on the health of children in Karachi, Pakistan, where communicable disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality Text
Never neglect the whole for the parts One perverse characteristic of our age is the habit of breaking current issues, whether scientific, political or ethical, into distinct fragments and turning a blind eye to the effect that altering one aspect will produce on any other
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Hallmark of a politician / The meaning of culture Text
Prescribing & Medicines
Management PDF (170K) insert
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Helping to avoid hospital admissions PM1
Various initiatives, supported by the National Prescribing Centre's medicines management collaborative programmes, are seeking to address how better medicines management can help avoid hospital admissions. Zoë Gross reports on three of them
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Prescribing for hypertension and more PM2
Mohammed Ahmed, a prescribing practitioner at Doncaster West Primary Care Trust, shares his experiences of supplementary prescribing
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Thoughts on independent prescribing PM3
In this article, Hugh McGavock, visiting professor of prescribing science, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, explains why he supports supplementary prescribing but not independent prescribing
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How to implement supplementary prescribing in primary care clinics PM4
In this article, Bola Sotubo, pharmacist supplementary prescriber at Melbourne
Grove Practice, Southwark, and Karen Acott, pharmacist supplementary prescriber
and partner, Wallingbrook Health Centre, Devon, give tips for successful supplementary
prescribing
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The Society PDF (700K) 351-356
• Promotion of museum continues Text 351
• Deaths of two pharmacists from industry who both served as president of ABPI Text 351
• Council's response to BRM resolutions Text 352-354
• Restoration of former pharmacist must await his removal from sex offenders' register Text 354
• Society co-operates with Independent on a fourth pharmacy supplement Text 354
Obituaries & tributes Text 355
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 356
• Society meetings Text 356
Veterinary Pharmacists Group evening meeting: “Tails
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win” (8
November)
• Future events Text 335
• Conferences Text 335
• Reunions Text 335
Portsmouth 1980
Awards Text 335
Clinical pharmacology
Charitable requests Text
Corrections Text
Resources Text 335
PCT commissioning
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