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Man charged after siege at Edinburgh pharmacy

Charges were brought by the police today (16 May 2013) against a 32-year-old-man, in connection with an incident at Edinburgh’s Royal Mile Pharmacy yesterday evening...

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  1. Save Birdsgrove House

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    Thanks are due to Bill Brookes for raising the issue of Birdsgrove House more >

  2. Scottish scheme for event analysis

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    The recognition that significant events made in practice can be used as a learning opportunity for all involved, with the aim of enhancing safety of the provision of patient care, is to be welcomed within pharmacy more >

  3. Too many pharmacy graduates

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    read with interest Rob Duncombe's letter on the quantity and quality of pharmacy students more >

  4. National boards

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    I have just received the consultation document (PDF 90K) regarding the proposed "national boards" more >

  5. A lesson in morality from a fascinating hedge climber / Early humans reached Britain lured by a mild climate / Hedge row herb wi

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    In his book 'On growth and form' (1917) D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson produced what Peter Medawar hailed as "beyond comparison the finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue" / Science for 22 April revealed some findings of a conference of palaeoanthropologists in Milwaukee, at which the participants discussed the early human settlement of Britain / Flourishing in the hedgerows in early summer is the ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea, which, despite its attribution both in English and in Latin, has not had the slightest relationship with the true ivy / "The whole question of improved armaments has been approached by the governments of the earth in a spirit of nervous and unreflecting haste, whereas the right way was lying plainly before them and had only to be pursued with calm determination more >

  6. Freedom for pharmacists: going independent might change the future

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    Nationwide, the portion of independently owned pharmacies has declined more >

  7. Association of the European Self-Medication Industry

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    The future of self-care was on the agenda at this year's combined meeting of the AESGP and the WSMI. Michael Thompson reports more >

  8. Aspects of the contract in the north east

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    Pharmacists from Tyne and Wear met recently to hear about the new community pharmacy contract. Malcolm Goldie reports more >

  9. Antibiotic eye drops move POM to P

    11 Jun 05 | 0.00 |

    This week, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency announced the reclassification of chloramphenicol eye drops from a prescription only to a pharmacy medicine. Harriet Adcock examines the issues raised by this important POM-to-P switch more >

  10. Pharmacy guidance on CD regulations published by Society

    11 Jun 05 | 0.00 |

    Guidance on what pharmacists should be doing to comply with current and planned Controlled Drugs regulations has been published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society more >


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Society past-President David Coleman dies aged 73

David Coleman, who was President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain from 1991 to 1993, has died...

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