Hospital Pharmacist
Vol 15 pp73-112 No 3
March 2008

Jobs and Classified advertising

Comment   74

Hospital pharmacists — a significant force in a time of change 74
By Jeremy Holmes
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News and research update   77-78

News summary  77-78
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-Hospital pharmacists urged to help patients report side effects
-Collaboration is needed to help develop new professional body
-Unsocial hours pay agreed
-Study calls for better sepsis management
-Online applications are good news for research

Hospital Pharmacist conference   79-96

Hospital Pharmacist conference

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Careers   99-100

Careers

A career as … — a psychiatric liaison pharmacist 99-100
By Azizah Attard, MRPharmS, Duncan McRobbie, MSc, MRPharmS, David Taylor, PhD, MRPharmS, and Tony West, FRPharmS
Specialist mental health pharmacy services are rarely developed within acute medical trusts. This can create a service gap if mental health service users are admitted to acute hospitals. This article describes a role created by two London trusts to fill the gap
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Case study   102-106

Treatment of bladder fungal balls in a premature infant with a combination of three antifungal agents 102-106
By Afia Manaf, MRPharmS
Bladder fungal balls are a recognised complication of septic fungal infections. This article describes an example of this complication and discusses the antifungal and antibacterial treatments that were used
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Focus on technicians   107-108

Focus on technicians

New professional body — are technicians in or out? 107-108
Steve Acres, vice-president of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians (UK), looks at why there is opposition to technicians being included in the new professional body for pharmacy and how APTUK is addressing this
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Life-long learning   76

Life-long learning

ANSWERS: Healthcare-associated infection 76
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Guild Matters (newsletter)   insert

Guild Matters

Guild Matters is a newsletter from the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists. The newsletter will highlight important issues to pharmacists and news from the Guild
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