Primary Care Pharmacy June 2000

Back issues

Leading article

• Tackling cardiovascular disease

Viewpoint

• Patient perspectives of coronary heart disease (Eve Knight)

Medicines Resource Management

• The NSF for coronary heart disease (Lee Furniss)

Disease management

• Primary care group anticoagulant clinics (Andrew Radley, Noel Dixon, John Hall)

Articles

• Postgraduate courses for pharmacists working in primary care
• Cardiac disease prevention (Dougie McPhail)

Switch

• Making prescribing changes - Tipton's WWWHAM (Jenifer Harding)

Journal Club - What is in the medical press?

• Management
• Lipid lowering
• Atrial fibrillation
• Repeat prescribing
• Heart failure
• Diabetes
• Asthma and COPD
• H pylori

News

• Competencies for primary care
• Minimum standards for PCG pharmacists
• Audit support pack launched
• Pharmacists making progress in PCGs
• Changing NSAID prescribing
• NPA skills guide
• Useful websites