September 1998 • Volume 6 • Number 3 • ISSN 0961-7671

LEADING ARTICLES
Closer working between health professionals: the future for medicines management
A. Blenkinsopp

ORIGINAL PAPERS
Pharmacists' and pre-registration pharmacy graduates' views of proxy consultations
M. C. Weiss, J. A. Cantrill and H. L. Nguyen

UK postal survey of pharmacists working with general practices on prescribing issues: characteristics, roles and working arrangements
R. M. Martin, S. G. Lunec and E. Rink

Preliminary findings from an economic analysis of nurse prescribing
B. Ferguson, K. Luker, K. Smith, L. Austin and C. Hogg

Extending the role of community pharmacists: the views of GPs
P. Bleiker and A. Lewis

Shared care: a study of patients' experiences with erythropoietin
D. M. Ashcroft, C. M. Clark and S. P. Gorman

Role of consumer attributes in predicting the impact of medicines deregulation on National Health Service prescribing in the United Kingdom
K. Payne, B. M. Ryan-Woolley and P. R. Noyce

Health care professionals' views on hospital pharmacist prescribing in the United Kingdom
D. Child, C. Hirsch and M. Berry

Late responders and non-responders to a postal survey questionnaire: analysis of potential further response and non-response bias
J. Sheridan and J. Strang

NEWS AND REPORTS
Practice research: an international update
I. T. Savage