Leading
Articles PDF (20K) 406
Let's share the cake 406
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Now that the new financial year has started, we should be entitled to hope that the NHS will be able to shake off its troubles, and the cash crisis will be seen to be a problem of the last quarter of 2005/06. But nothing could be further from reality
Lessons from Northwick Park 406
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The good news, earlier this week, that five of the clinical trial volunteers who had ended up in intensive care at Northwick Park Hospital less than a month ago have now been discharged, was followed up by a press conference held by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
News & Features 407-412
News summary 407-411
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Society to have powers to suspend pharmacists suffering ill health 412
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One of the innovations in the regulatory machinery
that is likely to be introduced by the end of the year is a Health Committee
which will have powers to suspend from practice pharmacists whose ill
health is affecting how they carry out their professional duties. Debbie
Andalo reports
Products PDF (30K) 413
• Products Text 413
• Announcements Text 413
• Drug tariff updates Text 413
April 2006 prescriptions
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 414
Ready, steady, pause and take stock! Time to reflect on medicines use review 414
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By Russell Foulsham, Nader Siabi, Sandeep Nijjer and Soraya Dhillon
Letters PDF (60K) 415-419
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Medicines use reviews / Packaging / Cardiovascular disease / Drug trials / Product data / Technology / Allergy / Boots/Alliance merger / NEL LPC / Council elections / Conferences / Registration / April Fool
Articles 420-421
Melbourne 2006: setting the standard for future Commonwealth Games 420-421
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Mark Stuart, Bill Horsfall and Mel Blachford describe how pharmacy services were organised during the recent Commonwealth Games that took place in Melbourne, Australia
Meetings 422-423
Reports
Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group
Changing regulatory requirements in ingredient manufacture and control 422-423
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Prescribing & Medicines Management PDF (100K) insert
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Pharmacist prescribers: is finding a mentor a barrier to accreditation? PM1-2
With more pharmacists taking up prescribing, there
have been murmurs about a potential shortage of GP mentors. Clare Bellingham
investigates
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Funding and lack of access to records could slow progress of independent
pharmacist prescribing PM2
Concerns that a lack of funding could hinder the progress
of independent prescribing were raised at a meeting in London last week, organised
by the Social Market Foundation
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How to make MUR accreditation easy PM3
Pharmacists who want to offer medicines use reviews
need to get accredited. Chris Rose, communications lead for Essex Local Pharmaceutical
Committee, describes a mass accreditation organised by his LPC
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FPMM aligns with national agendas PM4
Bruce Warner and Ros Grant, board members of
the Faculty of Prescribing and Medicines Management, describe changes to
faculty requirements
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Onlooker PDF (40K) 424
How economics can be the enemy of health care A report published in The Lancet for 18 March reveals a singularly grim aspect of the way in which industry, in the interest of its own economic health, can limit the ability of a population to pursue improvements in standards of human health Text
 Call to halt slaughter of seal pups in Canada A comment by Nick Palmer of the UK Parliament’s all-party Animal Welfare Group, published in the 25 March issue of New Scientist, condemns the annual slaughter of some 300,000 pups of the harp seal by Canadian hunters Text
Initiative to improve the accuracy of science journalism An editorial in the March issue of Chemistry World draws attention to a serious snag affecting communications between scientists and the journalists engaged in explaining their pronouncements to the wider public Text
Facing the unacceptable / Acme of civilisation Text
The Society PDF (250K) 425-428
• Mailing list hiccup invalidates Council election ballot papers Text 425
• Scottish Executive looks at technician involvement in national board Text 425
• Minister praises pharmacists for oxygen role Text 426
• Trial of out-of-hours service from CPD helpdesk ends soon Text 426
• New certificate allows branches to recognise long-serving pharmacists Text 426
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
to present
• Private Controlled Drugs prescriptions and other changes to the prescribing and dispensing of Controlled Drugs Text 426
Statutory Committee Reports
• Poor handling of complaint about dispensing error leads to admonition for Lloyds superintendent Text 427
Official notices 2001
to present
• Council election: ballot papers invalidated Text 428
Obituaries & tributes Text 428
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 428
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 413
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text
Awards Text 413
Guidelines in practice
Charitable requests Text
Corrections & clarifications Text 413
Council election
Resources Text
Wants Text
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