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Sex and drugs and pharmacy’s role 11/03/2010
Commissioning under NHS budget cuts 10/03/2010
Planning the PR campaign 11/03/2010
C+D Awards – Wall to wall success 11/03/2010
Supplying stoma and incontinence appliances 11/03/2010
Lending an ear 11/03/2010
Stock shortages: is the medicines supply chain failing? 12/03/2010
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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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12/03/2010
Pharmacy is a proven way of tackling sexual health issues, so why don’t more pharmacists get involved? An expert panel offer their top tips on how you can launch a successful service. Chris Chapman reports
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
As a DH plan to raise pharmacy’s profile is devolved to primary care trusts, Zoe Smeaton asks what the ideal PR campaign might look like and whether this one will do the job
The winner of the Pharmacy Innovation prize at the C+D Awards proves the best ideas are the simple ones.
Max Gosney reports
Come April, new essential and advanced services will be added to England’s pharmacy contract, relating to the supply of stoma and incontinence products. The changes to terms of service and NHS regulations will affect all pharmacists. Legal expert David Reissner explains what you need to do
Speaking anonymously, pharmacist MA tells
Chris Chapman about being a Listening Friend for the charity Pharmacist Support
British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers
executive director
Martin Sawer
looks at what is happening to the medicines supply chain.
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?
