Primary Care Pharmacy November 1999

Back issues

Leading article

• New NHS, new journal

Articles

• Opportunities for pharmacists in primary care (Pamela Mason)
• A week in the life of a primary care group pharmacist (Susan Lunec)
• Primary care pharmacy: a company perspective (Andrew Bellingham)
• Prescribing advice: working part time with a local doctor (Gillian Hawksworth)
• Promoting rational prescribing and budget management (Jacqueline Kinsey)
• The role of the full-time practice pharmacist (Marian Bradley)
• Do pharmacists working with primary care groups need specialist training (Kim Brackley and Susan Sanders)
• A general practitioner perspective (Sheena Macgregor)
• Practice based pharmacists: do patients and primary health care teams benefit (Christine Duthie)
• Anticoagulation services: an audit tool (Sheena Macgregor)
• Establishing an upper gastrointestinal disease management clinic (Derek Stewart)

Journal Club - What is in the medical press?

• Near patient testing
• Home-based interventions
• Cutting prescribing costs
• Statins
• Proton pump inhibitors
• Coumarin with aspirin
• Helicobacter pylori
• Hypertension guidelines

News

• Minister recognises primary care role
• Virtual PCG board sees pharmacy’s vision fulfilled in 2009
• Report of the Accounts Commission for Scotland
• Useful websites
• Contract for primary care company