Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 14 pp145-176 No 5
May 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Comment   146

The year of the injectable? — an organisational approach 146
By Liz Mellor, MPharm, MRPharmS
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News and research update   147-148

News summary  147-148
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-Chief pharmacists call for more collaboration and leadership
-APTUK/AAH hospital technician of the year 2006 winners presented
-Pharmacists best at detecting adverse drug events from charts
-Drug naming conventions explained
-Pharmacists are key to upholding guidelines
-Elderly drug burden index developed

Special feature: Macular degeneration   151-160

Life-long learning

Macular degeneration— symptoms and diagnosis 151-154
Age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in the Western world. This article describes the causes and symptoms of the condition, the methods used for diagnosis and the treatments available
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Macular degeneration— Advances in treatment 155-160
This article describes progress in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, focusing on a new class of drugs which may be able to reverse vision loss. The medicines management considerations of these drugs are also discussed
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Careers   163-165

Careers

Applying the KSF to general level pharmacists 163-165
By Alison Eggleton, MRPharmS, Brit Cadman, MRPharmS, Helen Howe, FRPharmS, and Denise Farmer, MRPharmS
One of the guiding principles of the NHS KSF is that other, more specific, competence frameworks can be used with it. This article describes an initiative to link the KSF to the pharmacist-specific General Level Competency Framework
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Papers   166-169

Incidence of hypophosphataemia in patients on parenteral nutrition 166-169
By Vanessa Marvin, MSc, MRPharmS, Caroline May, BSc, Callum Livingstone, MRCPath, and Joy Davis, RD
OBJECTIVE — To determine the effect of parenteral nutrition on plasma phosphate levels and to evaluate the incidence of refeeding hypophosphataemia
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Meetings   170-171

European Association of Hospital Pharmacists

The impact of new technologies on hospital pharmacy 170-171
Aspects of quality and safety introduced by new therapies, including genome technology, were discussed at the 12th EAHP congress. Hannah Pike reports
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Focus on technicians   172

Focus on technicians

Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK
What does the future hold? 172
Shaping the future for technicians, as a part of the wider pharmacy profession, was one of the main themes of the APTUK conference. Rachel Graham reports
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Life-long learning   173-174

Life-long learning

QUESTIONS: Macular degeneration 173-174
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