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Pharmacist prescriber project scoops 2013 Pharmaceutical Care Award

A team that explored the impact pharmacist prescribers can have on blood pressure management has been voted the winner of this year’s Pharmaceutical Care Awards...

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  1. A move to improve pharmacy's role in public health

    29 Oct 05 | 0.00 | England Scotland Wales

    A PharmacyHealthLink presentation on public health has resulted in a commitment from the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to help promote the future public health role of the profession more >

  2. Pandemic? Don't panic

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    That the world is overdue an influenza pandemic is without question. What remains unknown is whether the flu virus involved will be a variant of existing human flu viruses or a mutation of the avian flu virus that is beginning to wreak political havoc although the biological and medical problems are not on the same scale more >

  3. Doubts regarding safety of standard operating procedure

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    I have been writing our standard operating procedure (SOP) for returned medicines with regard to the new waste regulations and have been using the guidelines included in the National Pharmacy Association’s “New directions” manual more >

  4. "Whistleblowing" will only work if changes are made at the top

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    Dame Janet Smith contrasts the “whistleblowing” culture of the aviation industry with the “reluctance to report a colleague” in the medical professions more >

  5. Which dispensing staff need to be declared?

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    I write regarding dispensing staff levels and practice payment more >

  6. New services require a better rate of return

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    I am afraid I must be a little sceptical about the report in the PJ about new services in Fife “generating healthy returns” more >

  7. "Murder" to carry out

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    The penny has finally dropped for me. In my post today I received a letter from a locum agency stating that they are unable to book me unless I can furnish them with a copy of my certificate for the repeat dispensing course more >

  8. How do the public really perceive us?

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    Your reader, Frances Cairns was correct in pointing out that George in Desperate Housewives was a pharmacist, but failed to point out that his character was responsible for substituting the medication on a prescription for Bree’s husband, resulting in her husband having a heart attack more >

  9. Knew about the hurdles

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    I am fed up with the number of published letters in The Journal from preregistration trainees who are either disgruntled or failed registration examination entrants, criticising the registration examination and fully qualified pharmacists who did not have the same process of qualification more >

  10. "Melt down"

    22 Oct 05 | 0.00 |

    I read with concern the letter from the three past presidents who believe that there will now be a “melt down” at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society for a number of reasons, and the Officers of the Society, in particular, need to take action to avoid damage more >


 Talking point

Do you support plans to regulate e-cigarettes?

E-cigarettes are to be licensed as medicines from 2016 by the MHRA. Vote in this week's PJ Online poll and give us your opinion on the matter.

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