Issue : The Pharmaceutical Journal, November 2015, Vol 295, No 7883
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A history of HIV survival in the UK Subscription
Treatment for HIV has radically improved since the beginning of the epidemic in 1981. HIV-infected people in the UK are now surviving for decades, rather than months or years.
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Stigma towards people with HIV will undo advances in drug treatment Subscription
Societal attitudes towards HIV need to keep up with the advances in drug development and treatment for the illness.
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How cuts to public health funding could affect pharmacy Subscription
Planned government budget cuts put pharmacy’s role in providing public health services under threat.
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Devising ways to improve medicines adherence Subscription
There are many reasons why patients do not take their medicines as prescribed. Discovering the specific cause of non-adherence is the best way to improve it.
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Welsh government backs pharmacists’ access to healthcare record Subscription
Pharmacists need access to patient healthcare records to do their job effectively, Welsh government deputy minister for health Vaughan Gething says.
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Working to support antimicrobial surveillance and stewardship practices Subscription
Two months since his election to chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Antimicrobial Expert Advisory Group, Harpal Dhillon talks to Julia Robinson about the role of the group and how pharmacists can best use their skills to tackle inappropriate antibiotic use.
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Launch of Prescribing Awareness Week initiative Subscription
There is much healthcare professionals could do to help patients get the best outcomes from medicines. Some of the challenges include, for example, insufficient information about medicines and preventable hospital admissions caused by the adverse effect of medicines.
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Tribute to Ian Boyd Subscription
Ian and I first met during sporting activities for boys at Manchester Grammar School. He was a couple of years above my class in the modern part of middle school. We next met in the first year of the new Bachelor of Science Pharmacy degree course at Manchester University where we teamed up as partners in various laboratory work and met a little socially.
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Junior doctors vote overwhelmingly for industrial action in the UK Subscription
Around 98% of junior doctors have voted in favour of industrial action over the UK government’s threat to impose a new contract on them from August 2016.
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Named pharmacist proposed for elderly care Subscription
RPS to resume calls for elderly patients’ pharmaceutical care to be overseen by a single identified pharmacist.
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