This revision guide takes the student pharmacist or pharmacy technician through the main stages involved in pharmaceutical dispensing. It gives bullet points of basic information on applied pharmacy practice followed by questions and answers. This reference text accompanies the compulsory dispensing courses found in all undergraduate MPharm programmes and equivalent technical training courses. Changes for the new edition include: * Information on revisions to the community pharmacy contract. * Additional content on new advanced community pharmacy services. * Revised worked examples and student questions. * Updated prescription labelling information, including the use of new cautionary and warning labels. * Updated references and bibliography.
1. Introduction, medicines classification and standard operating procedures 2. NHS supply in the community 1: prescription forms and prescribing 3. NHS supply in the community 2: prescribers and the dispensing process 4. NHS supply within hospitals 5. Non-NHS supply 6. Controlled drugs 7. Emergency supply 8. Patient counselling and communication 1: the basics of patient communication 9. Patient counselling and communication 2: product-specific counselling points 10. Poisons and spirits Appendix 1: Commonly encountered qualifications of healthcare professionals Appendix 2: Abbreviations commonly used within pharmacy
