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Prescribing & Medicines Management

December 2005

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Focus on prescribing science will grow
In this article, Hugh McGavock, visiting professor at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, explains why prescribing science is important
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Supplementary prescribing one year on
Fiona Reid, primary care pharmacist for cardiovascular disease, describes her year with a hypertension and cardiovascular risk reduction clinic
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Learning from practice experiences
In this article, Nina Barnett, specialist pharmacist for older people, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, and Jane Nicholls, project lead, London Pharmacy Supplementary Prescribing Team, describe a two-year-old supplementary prescribing service for older people in Harrow
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Contributing to a QOF assessment
In August 2004, the medicines management team at Central Liverpool Primary Care Trust was faced with the challenge of contributing to the PCT's first annual Quality and Outcomes Framework assessment and review. Rachel Mullen, practice pharmacist, and Janet Decamp, deputy director of medicines management, both at Central Liverpool PCT, report
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We would like to hear from you

Prescribing & Medicines Management depends on readers for information about the development of new services either run by pharmacists or closely involving them. If you have a story to tell, or have heard about a scheme that you would like to hear more about, send details to:

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