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Do not use paracetamol just to reduce fever, says NICE

Advice on the use of paracetamol and ibuprofen to treat feverish illness in children less than five years of age has been overhauled...

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  1. Requests are often inappropriate and ill-considered

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    I am entirely in agreement with Bob Gartside more >

  2. I believe demand is likely to be high

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    I have read and researched our liability with regard to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the new contract framework more >

  3. Contract confusion over MDSs clarified

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    In his article on monitored dosage systems Bob Gartside begins by stating that the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the Department of Health have decided that MDSs should be covered by the new pharmacy contract more >

  4. Important role in safe administration of medicines

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    I worked for Boots The Chemists for many years promoting and training on the use of its monitored dosage system service more >

  5. Nurses and midwives

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    I am afraid that incorrect information was provided to The Journal about the regulation of nurses and midwives more >

  6. Work breaks and adequate numbers of support staff required

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    I read with interest the letter from Paul Summerfield more >

  7. Work breaks should be mandatory for pharmacists

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    Until about 20 years ago it was normal practice for all pharmacy staff, including the pharmacist, to take a 15-minute break in the mid-morning and mid-afternoon and a one-hour break at lunchtime in a part of the premises away from the dispensary more >

  8. Hospital trials will be instigated

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    Michael Richards incorrectly assumed that "Hospital sterilisation" was the heading that I had placed on my letter entitled "New discovery" more >

  9. What problem will running balances solve?

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    So we may be required to maintain running balances of Controlled Drugs more >

  10. Creating a new dimension to pharmacy practice

    20 Aug 05 | 0.00 |

    It is now over 50 years since Watson and Crick described the structure of DNA, postulating a copying mechanism that provides a chemical basis for genetic transmission and a scientific basis for Mendelian inheritance of traits more >


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A pharmacist’s apocalypse

We’ve all been there. We have all probably done it, but it never gets easier. Benedict Lam blogs about his experience of making a dispensing error

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