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Commissioning under NHS budget cuts 10/03/2010
C+D Awards: Therapy time 03/03/2010
C+D Awards: Getting personal 03/03/2010
10 key facts on the draft GPhC rules 08/03/2010 The GPhC designate – which is preparing to be the new, independent regulator for pharmacy – is seeking views on its draft legislative rules to ensure they are clear, comprehensive and fair. Here, the GPhC team explain what you need to know about the draft rules for the new regulator. |
David Reissner: Don’t judge until you hear the whole story 10/03/2010 I realise newspapers have deadlines to meet, but it’s very frustrating when reports on court cases are submitted for publication after only one side of a case has been presented. The press reports on the Carmel Sheller inquest this month were no exception. Xrayser: Who benefits from a free-for-all – not me! 10/03/2010 “Do you pay for your prescriptions?” This apparently simple question usually elicits one of two answers – qualified with “Yes, unfortunately” or “No, they’re free” – but a promised review of exemption categories suggests the third “don’t know” option is true of the government. Ravi's Blog: you can never do enough for patients 02/03/2010 Patients… You bend over backwards for them, run around after them, chase up their delayed prescription repeats which they did not order until the very last minute, deliver medicines to their home, even in 6 feet of snow… |
Registration for Update and Counterpart Plus 2010 is now open. Click on the links to find out more ... Update module 1517: Pregnancy: mother and foetus in the first trimester 10/03/2010
Ethical dilemma: Disclosing information 24/02/2010
Practical Approach: How can you alleviate vomiting in babies? 10/03/2010
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10/03/2010
With the NHS under orders to cut its budget by £20 billion in the next five years, does this signal an end to getting pharmacy services commissioned? Georgina Craig puts the questions to those who hold the purse strings
Michael Maguire explains to
Zoe Smeatonhow he transformed his pharmacy to clinch the coveted C+D Community Pharmacist of the Year 2009 award
Bernard Mweseka tells
Chris Chapman how the personal touch bagged him the Pharmacy Manager gong at the C+D Awards 2009
Do you know how a baby develops in early pregnancy and what advice you might give a pregnant woman? The first in a series of three articles describes development and physiological changes in the first stage of pregnancy and also reviews what the pharmacist might need to check.
A patient's sister, who often collects her brother's medicine, asks for a photocopy 
A three-month old baby is regularly regurgitating feeds and his mother is concerned. The GP and health visitor try to reassure her but she is still worried. How common, and what is the cause of, baby vomiting? What measures can be tried to alleviate it?
