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Lippy lay Council members 492
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Many pharmacists may have been wondering what impact the extra lay members have had on the workings of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council over the past year
Not too late to make your mark 492
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Pharmacists who have not yet voted in this year's Council election have only a few days left to do so. The replacement salmon-coloured election papers must be returned to the Electoral Reform Society by noon next Friday, 6 May, which realistically means that they should be posted by next Wednesday in order to give them the best chance of reaching their destination in time
News & Features 493-500
News summary 493-498
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2006: a tighter ABPI Code of Practice? 499-500
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On 1 January a revised ABPI Code of Practice, which calls for changes to industry's marketing practices, came into operation. Lin-Nam Wang reports
POEMs 498
POEMs series
Statins are equivalent for cardiovascular disease prevention 498
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Products PDF (40K) 501
• Products Text 501
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 502
Why the public must be involved in local decisions on medicines funding 502
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By Ed England
Letters PDF (50K) 503-506
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Branded prescribing / Antibiotics / PSNC / Medicines use reviews / New technologies / Boots/Alliance merger / The profession / Section 60 Order / The Society / Information / Health committee
Meetings 507-509
Reports
British Pharmaceutical Students Association
Students vote on issues relating to new services in community contract 507-508
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Students voted for nationally recognised training
for enhanced services, increased publicity of essential and advanced services,
and a system for making GP and specialist referrals at this year's British Pharmaceutical
Student's Association conference. Gemma Cleveland reports
Health Service Research and Pharmacy Practice
How to involve the general public in research, medicines choice and health 509
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Angela Alexander, senior clinical lecturer in the centre for inteprofessional postgraduate education and training at the University of Reading school of pharmacy, reports from a meeting ways of involving the public in health were discussed
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Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Laser surgery for refractive errors 511-514
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In this article, Lucy Titcomb examines refractive
errors, the ways in which they can be treated by surgery and the drugs involved
Onlooker PDF (60K) 510
 Spring “crowned with milk-white may” For centuries the first day of May has been a time for celebration and rejoicing Text
Dealing with moral objections to the dispensing of particular drugs Human society embraces three main types of individual. There are those whose utter selfishness blinds them to the needs of others and makes them antisocial. There are others whose fanaticism overrides any reasoning process and there are yet others who face the necessity for making moral judgements when any doubtful situation arises, and who are aware of the pitfalls in their path Text
Tricky problem of predicting the economic effects of global warming Global warming is a phenomenon that has been making its challenge increasingly more evident from week to week, until even the sceptics among politicians find it impossible to avoid facing it Text
The Society PDF (270K) 515-520
• Society publishes new guidance on recording pharmacy interventions Text 515
• New display of medicinal plants from Saxon times to the 21st century Text 515
• AGM to debate Council ethics Text 516
• Last chance to vote Text 516
• Death of Charter gold medallist John Stenlake Text 516
• New programme of PhD studentships Text 516
• Current issues in pharmacy highlighted in Welsh Executive spring newsletter Text 516
• Guidance on recording of interventions This guidance has been produced in the Practice and Quality Improvement Directorate
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
PDF (50K) 517-518
Official notices 2001
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• Annual general meeting Text 519
• Council voting papers Text 519
Obituaries & tributes Text 519-520
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 520
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 501
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text
Awards Text
Charitable requests Text
Corrections & clarifications Text 501
Council report / BPSA Conference / Resource medical
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Animal medicines
Clinical governance
Pain resources
Wants Text 501
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