Primary Care Pharmacy March 2000

Back issues

Leading article

• Time to reflect

Viewpoint

• Primary care pharmacy - past, present and future (Peter Matthews)

Medicines Resource Management

• Formularies in primary care (Lee Furniss)

Disease management

• Rheumatoid arthritis - how to establish a pharmacist-led clinic (Alison Wilson)

Letters

• Medication review in residential and nursing homes
• Optimum review periods

Audit

• Monitoring treatment of hypothyroidism (Sheila Duncan)

Articles

• Making the most of the net (Simon Whitaker)
• Clinical governance and CPD - what it means for you (Alison Astles)
• Practice prescribing systems: an obstacle to progress? (Gill Speak)

Switch

• Angina management - are patients adequately controlled? (Sheena Macgregor)

Journal Club - What is in the medical press?

• Heart failure
• HOPE study
• Depression
• Depression guidelines
• Helicobacter tests
• Prescribing budgets
• Cardiac risk
• Concordance
• Lifestyle advice
• Needs assessment
• Management of chronic disease

News

• Improving quality in primary care: supporting pharmacists working in primary care groups and trusts
• Shaping tomorrow: issues facing general practice in the new millennium
• FDA warning on cisapride
• Secondary prevention SIGN guideline launched
• New award for primary care pharmacists
• Useful websites

Round up

• Information in focus