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Would adopting a quality and outcomes framework improve the standard of medicines use reviews in community pharmacy? Subscription
This paper aims to evaluate pharmacists’ opinions on the use of a quality and outcomes framework (QOF) as a tool to improve the standard of medicines use reviews (MURs), using an asthma checklist as an example of a possible proposed quality and outcomes framework.
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What do Royal Pharmaceutical Society branches mean to pharmacists in Scotland? Subscription
Abstract AimTo determine the views, experiences and attitudes of pharmacists in Scotland towards Royal Pharmaceutical Society branches.To identify facilitators and barriers to branch meeting attendance.To explore future preferences.Design Postal questionnaire.
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What do pharmacists think of peer review of medicine use reviews? Subscription
Geoffrey Harding, PhD, is senior research fellow at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter. Michael Wilcock, MRPharmS, is head of the prescribing support unit, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust.
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What do pharmacists think of MURs and do they change prescribed medication? Subscription
Michael Wilcock, MRPharmS, is head of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust prescribing support unit. Geoffrey Harding, PhD, is a senior research fellow at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter.
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What do GPs think about joint formularies? Subscription
Sarah-Jane Heal, MRPharmS, is lead formulary pharmacist at West Herts Hospital NHS Trust (at time of study, joint formulary pharmacist, Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust). Nicola Challinor is prescribing analyst, Plymouth Teaching PCT.
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What could the NHS appraisal system contribute to revalidation in pharmacy? Subscription
Ellen I. Schafheutle, PhD, MRPharmS, is lecturer in law and professionalism in pharmacySamuel D. Jee, BSc, is research assistantKaren Hassell, PhD, is professor of social pharmacyPeter R Noyce, PhD, FRPharmS, is professor of pharmacy practice.
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What are UK schools of pharmacy providing for undergraduates with disabilities? Subscription
To collect national data on disabled pharmacy students and on formal procedures and reasonable adjustments made for these students, in order to raise the profile of disability within the pharmacy profession.
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We are all part virus — the role of human endogenous retroviruses Subscription
Viruses lurk in our genome and science is only now starting to understand the important role that they might play in health and disease. Kalliopi Dodou and Paul Whiteley explain.
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Walking a line between health care and sales: the role of the medicines counter assistant Subscription
Jonathan Banks, PhD, is research associate and Alison Shaw, PhD, is lecturer in the department of community medicine at the University of Bristol. Marjorie C. Weiss, DPhil, MRPharmS, is senior lecturer in the department of pharmacy and pharmacology at the University of Bath.
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Using prescribing activity comparators to change medicines use in secondary care Subscription
This study aims to effect change in the use of proton pump inhibitors to support NHS West Midlands indicators for prescribing through the use of prescribing indicators. Data were sourced from IMS Health’s dataset.
