Includes index

Contents: Pharmacy practice and society: The Role of pharmacy in health care -- Models of pharmacy practice healthcare systems -- Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness -- Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines -- Pharmacy and public health -- Types of patient charges for medicines and their impact -- WHO and the essential medicines concept -- Governance and good professional pharmaceutical practice: Clinical governance - an overview -- Risk management -- Continuing professional development and fitness to practise -- Audit -- Ethics -- Communication skills for the pharmacist -- Relationship with other members of the healthcare team -- Record keeping -- Pharmacy prescribing and selection of medicines: Access to medicines and prescribing - introduction -- The Prescribing process and evidence-based medicine -- Formularies -- Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics -- Complementary/alternative medicine -- Routes of administration and dosage forms -- Prescribing for minor ailments -- Information retrieval -- Dispensing and related pharmaceutical practice activities: The Prescription -- Dispensing techniques(compounding and good practice) -- Pharmaceutical calculations -- Packaging -- Labelling of dispensed medicines -- Production of sterile products -- Solutions -- Suspensions -- Emulsions -- External preparations -- Suppositories and pessaries -- Powders and granules -- Oral unit dosage forms -- Inhaled route -- Parenteral products -- Opthalmic products -- Specialized services -- Parenteral nutrition and dialysis -- Radiopharmacy -- Storage of medicines and waste disposal -- Communication skills - role of the pharmacist in giving advice and information -- Pharmacy services and monitoring the medicine-taking patient: Collection and delivery services -- Concordance -- Monitoring the patient -- Services for vulnerable patients -- Substance use and misuse -- Appendix 1: medical abbreviations -- Appendix 2: latin terms and abbreviations -- Appendix 3: systems of weights and measures -- Appendix 4: presentation skills -- Appendix 5: key references and further reading.