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Comment 42
HP – The source 42
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By Diane Langleben, MRPharmS
News and reviews 45-47
News summary 45-47
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• First part of renal services NSF published (... well, most of it) 45
• HPG calls for better communication 45
• Days numbered for sleeping on the job?46
• Medication errors addressed in report47
Special feature: Renal failure 48-61
Renal failure — how drugs can damage the kidney 48-53
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By Caroline Ashley, MSc, MRPharmS
The first issue of Hospital Pharmacist in February 1994 featured renal pharmacy. With the number of patients requiring treatment for renal failure increasing significantly, the 10th anniversary issue returns to this topic. The first article in this month’s special feature reviews drugs that can cause kidney failure
Renal failure
— options for renal replacement therapy 54-61
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By Caroline Ashley, MSc, MRPharmS
The second article in this month’s special feature outlines the different types of renal replacement therapy available for patients with renal failure. Drug dosing in these patients is also summarised
Focus on technicians 62-65
Focus on technicians
US technician roles and registration requirements 62-65
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By Gareth Jones, MRPharmS
Sessions for technicians were held at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) meeting in New Orleans, 7-11 December 2003.
This article reviews presentations of relevance to the UK
Articles 66-77
Automated dispensing series
Automated dispensing — an overview of the types of systems available 66-68, 77
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By Derek Swanson, MRPharmS
Technology to automate aspects of the dispensing process is being installed at an increasing number of hospital pharmacies in the United Kingdom. This article, the first in a series, sets out the background to automation, giving details of the main pharmacy-based, original pack dispensing systems that are currently available
Promoting adherence — in renal transplant patients 69-71
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By Hayley Wells, MSc, MRPharmS
Successful renal transplantation requires patients to adhere to long-term complex multi-factorial regimens. This article discusses the reasons for poor adherence to therapy, and the pharmacist’s contribution to improving it in this patient group
Providing pharmacy services to medical admissions units 72-73, 77
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Pharmacists are increasingly becoming an active part of the team assessing patients on admission. Despite problems in obtaining funding, this trend is likely to continue, because of the benefits that the arrangement brings to patients, hospitals and pharmacists alike. This article outlines those advantages
Pharmacist prescribing in mental health 76-77
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By C. Feetam, MSc, MRPharmS and G. Newton, BSc, MRPharmS, MCMHP
The United Kingdom Psychiatric Pharmacy Group and the College of Mental Health Pharmacists have published a joint position statement on supplementary prescribing. In this article, two of the authors outline the key points
Careers 74-75
Careers
My career as ... a specialist mental health pharmacist 74-75
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By Wendy Davies, MRPharmS, BPharm(Hons), DipClinPharm, MCMHP
Pharmacists working in the psychiatry field play an important role in the multidisciplinary team. This article, which marks the start of a new series on careers, discusses the role of the specialist mental health pharmacist.
Poster 78
FP10HP prescribing guidance poster 78
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This mock prescription was developed by Ros Palmer,
community services pharmacist of the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust and Michael
Wilcock, Cornwall Prescribing Support Unit. It was presented at the British Pharmaceutical
Conference 2003 after they were awarded the 2002 joint National Pharmaceutical
Association and Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists award sponsored by MSD. The title
of their presentation was: “Community pharmacy advising on secondary care prescribing — is
this possible?”
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