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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. Difficulties in drug-taking apparent in the elderly

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    The elderly are one group who receive multiple drugs to treat their numerous conditions more >

  2. Negative impact of generic prescribing and parallel importing

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    I am writing as a representative of the Dementia Services Collaborative User and Carer Group in Calderdale, which I attend as the South-West Yorkshire mental health trust location pharmacist more >

  3. Avoid attaching extra labels to record

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    Residential care homes have a contract with a particular pharmacy to have four-weekly cycle prescriptions supplied (preferably) in a monitored dosage system (MDS) together with a medicines administration record (MAR) more >

  4. Contract confusion compounded

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    I have read with interest the points raised in recent editions of the PJ regarding compliance packaging systems and the new pharmacy contract more >

  5. End of agreement - alternative suggestion

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    In The Journal of the 27 August (p268) was the announcement that the Privy Council had approved ending reciprocal registration rights with long-term friends of the UK: Australia, New Zealand and South Africa more >

  6. Confirmed association with C difficile

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    The Clostridium difficile outbreak at Stoke Mandeville has been in the news recently more >

  7. From the perspective of a failed examinee

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    I am a "failed" preregistration trainee and I beg to differ with the opinion of the "confused" Sonal Ganatra more >

  8. Lost prestige

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    After 43 years on the Register and as a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, I resigned last year as I felt unable to sign the declaration for a non-practising pharmacist, because the definition attached to that category expressly ruled out the activities as a volunteer in my local hospice that I had undertaken on my retirement more >

  9. Former Council members blocked from participation

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    We are seldom served a helping of overt sour grapes, but here is a brimming dishful more >

  10. Seeking new and better ways to undertake CPD

    24 Sep 05 | 0.00 |

    Inspired by John Henderson's letter and by his call to increase our efforts towards fulfilling our duties to the public, I immediately placed a copy of the latest PJ in the smallest room in our house more >


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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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