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Education and training — a professional development framework

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Helen Middleton is continuing professional development manager at London Pharmacy Education and Training (LPE&T)

Susan Sanders is director of LPE&T

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A professional development framework, for the benefit of the pharmacy workforce with roles in education, training and workforce development, will be launched this month. This article describes the rationale for developing the framework and its use in practice

A career as ... a domiciliary pharmacist

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Sara Dilks and Ian Nash are domiciliary pharmacists in Devon PCT-Exeter area

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A new model of multidisciplinary team working with health and social care is being developed in Exeter, with domiciliary pharmacists included in the team. This article describes how a former hospital pharmacist and community pharmacist have worked with the local NHS trust to develop the service

From the editor

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This edition of Tomorrow’s Pharmacist is my last — I am taking my final bow as editor. I have had an enjoyable run over the past three years and this edition, our biggest yet, is a great one to go out on — a fitting finale. Again I have tried to keep the content appealing as well as informative. I hope some of the articles will inspire you to follow

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Tomorrow's Pharmacist is a guide for students and preregistration trainees

Welcome (Tomorrow's Pharmacist 2008)

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Jeremy Holmes

Jeremy Holmes
Chief Executive and Registrar, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

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A welcome from the Chief Executive and Registrar (Jeremy Holmes) and President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Hemant Patel)

British Pharmaceutical Students’ Association (Tomorrorw's Pharmacist 2008)

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Heena Bhakta is president of the BPSA

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The British Pharmaceutical Students' Association has just entered its 66th year and is the official students' branch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. It is the only national body that represents pharmacy students and preregistration trainees. Heena Bhakta explains what the BPSA has to offer

A career as … — a psychiatric liaison pharmacist

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Azizah Attard is senior psychiatric liaison pharmacist

Duncan McRobbie is associate chief pharmacist

Tony West is chief pharmacist at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Synopsis: 
Specialist mental health pharmacy services are rarely developed within acute medical trusts. This can create a service gap if mental health service users are admitted to acute hospitals. This article describes a role created by two London trusts to fill the gap

Diverse roles in community pharmacy

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Michael Holden

MRPharmS



2005 to date Chief officer of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Local Pharmaceutical Committee

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A career in community pharmacy has provided opportunities to balance the needs of profession and family, says Michael Holden

Applying the KSF to advanced level pharmacists

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Understanding the KSF process can help pharmacists complete their CPD

Understanding the KSF process can help pharmacists complete their CPD

Alison Eggleton is principal pharmacist (education and training)

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The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework should be linked to competence frameworks for different levels of staff. This article describes how a team in Cambridge have linked the KSF to the competence framework for advanced level practitioners

Working in mental health pharmacy

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Wendy Davies' CV



BPharm, MRPharmS, DipClinPharm

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Pharmacists can help patients with mental health problems to turn their lives around, says Wendy Davies

Proactive risk reduction — by a gastroenterology pharmacist

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Joyeta Das is a specialist hepatology pharmacist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Katy Morris is principal pharmacist, high risk medicines monitoring and education and training at Barts and the London NHS Trust

Synopsis: 
Patients who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease are often prescribed high risk, immunosuppressant medicines. This article describes a pharmacy-led service to help reduce the risk associated with these drugs and improve patient safety