Hospital pharmacy
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Chapter 1: Hospital pharmacy within the National Health Service
=> Hospital pharmacy within the National Health Service
=> History
=> Payment by results
=> The Next Stage Review
=> The NHS from 2010
=> Hospital pharmacy within the NHS
Chapter 2: Pharmacy in the acute independent sector
=> Introduction
=> Independent sector and the NHS - from concordat to free choice
=> Plurality of provision and patient choice
Chapter 3: Purchasing medicines
=> Introduction
=> Background
=> Aims of the service
=> How the service has developed
=> Hospital procurement and the application of EU legislation
Chapter 4: Medicines supply and automation
=> Introduction
=> History
=> Current systems
=> Storage arrangements
=> Ordering ward stock
=> New and emerging technologies
Chapter 5: Controlled drugs in hospital pharmacy
=> Background: legislative framework
=> The accountable officer
=> Standard operating procedures
=> Routine monitoring and auditing
=> Inspection, self-assessment and declaration to the relevant authority
=> Collaboration and local intelligence networks
=> Medicines management
Chapter 6: Technical services
=> Introduction
=> History
=> Licensing issues
=> Repackaging (prepacking, assembly)
=> Non-sterile manufacture
=> Sterile manufacture
=> Aseptic preparation
=> Intravenous additives
=> Total parenteral nutrition
=> Cytotoxics
=> Radiopharmaceuticals
=> Facilities and equipment
=> Education and training for hospital technical services
=> Health and safety and environmental issues
Chapter 7: Quality assurance
=> Quality assurance
=> The NHS quality agenda and the role of the quality assurance pharmacist
=> Clinical governance
=> Risk management
=> Medication errors
=> The aims of NHS pharmaceutical quality assurance services
=> Development, issue, implementation and monitoring of standards and guidance
=> Quality assurance and quality control of medicines
Chapter 8: Medicines information
=> Medicines information
=> History
=> Structure and activities
=> Aims and strategy
=> Roles and skills
=> Ethics and legal issues
=> Clinical governance and risk management
=> Activities
=> Support for decision-making on new medicines
Chapter 9: Clinical pharmacy
=> Introduction
=> What is clinical pharmacy?
=> The history of clinical pharmacy in the UK
=> Prescription monitoring
=> Prescribing advice to medical and nursing staff
=> Medication errors and adverse drug reaction reporting
=> Patient education and counselling, including achieving concordance
=> Self-administration schemes
=> Integrated medicines management
=> Pharmacokinetics and therapeutic drug level monitoring
=> Anticoagulant services
=> Personalised medicine
=> Education and training
=> Medicines formularies
=> Clinical outcomes
=> Professional and clinical audit
=> Outpatient clinical pharmacy services
=> Primary-secondary care interface
=> The role of pharmacy technicians in clinical pharmacy services
=> Surgical prophylaxis - reducing surgical site infections
=> Services linked to clinical specialties
=> Ongoing development of clinical pharmacy services
Chapter 10: Pharmacist prescribing
=> Pharmacist prescribing
=> Supplementary prescribing
=> Independent prescribing
=> General principles of prescribing
=> Current prescribing practice
=> Clinical governance
=> Education
Chapter 11: Strategic medicines management
=> Clinical risk
=> Financial risk
=> History
=> Strategic medicines management in practice
Chapter 12: Risks with medicines
=> Risks with medicines
=> Medicines risk
=> Adverse drug reactions
=> Risks with medicines use
=> Identifying risk
=> Tools for investigating and managing medicines risk
=> Quality improvement programmes for managing medicines risk
Chapter 13: Mental health pharmacy
=> Introduction
=> An early history of mental hospitals
=> Early mental health and learning disability pharmacy
=> Changes in the approach to mental illness
=> Mental health law
=> Mental capacity and deprivation of liberty
=> Medicines for mental illness
=> Medicines in learning disabilities
=> Mental health pharmacy changes
=> Pharmacy's contribution
=> Future models for mental health pharmacy
Chapter 14: Community health services
=> Introduction
=> Community health services
=> CHS professionals and their roles
=> Pharmacy support for medicines management in CHS
=> Strategic advice
=> Support for clinical governance
=> Patient group directions
=> Advice on the safe, appropriate use and handling of medicines
=> Education and training
=> Supply and dispensing of medicines
=> Clinical pharmacy services in CHS
=> Specialist knowledge for CHS pharmacy staff
=> Working with other agencies
=> Organisation of pharmacy support to CHS
=> Information technology
=> History
=> Stock control systems
=> The Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dmūd)
=> Electronic patient record
=> Delivery of e-prescribing into UK hospitals
Chapter 15: Research and development
=> Research and development
=> Pharmacy practice research
=> Project design and planning
Chapter 16: Work force development
=> Work force development
=> Recent developments
=> Factors that will influence workforce development in the coming years
=> Undergraduate and preregistration education and training
=> Postregistration education and training
=> Technician training
=> Management and leadership
=> Postgraduate pharmacy education centres
=> The future
Chapter 17: Consultant pharmacists
=> Introduction
=> Career pathways in hospital pharmacy
=> Developments in education and training
=> Use of practice frameworks
=> Contribution of the critical care model
=> Consultant posts and post-holders
=> Establishing local posts
=> Applying for a post
=> Current posts/where we are now
=> Next steps
Chapter 18: Managing services
=> Introduction
=> Pharmacy management
=> Business planning
=> Financial management
=> Benchmarking
=> Staff management
