About the Book:

Applied Pharmaceutical Practice is an invaluable resource and will guide the student pharmacist and pharmacy technician through the main stages involved in pharmaceutical dispensing. As a core reference text, it is ideal as a companion to the compulsory dispensing courses found in all undergraduate MPharm programmes and the equivalent technical training courses.

Contents include:

·               medicines classification and standard operating procedures

·               NHS supply in the community and within hospitals

·               non-NHS supply

·               controlled drugs

·               emergency supply

·               patient counselling and communication

·               poisons and spirits 

Contents:

1.    Introduction, medicines classification and standard operating procedures

2.    NHS Supply in the community 1 – Precription forms and prescribing

3.    NHS Supply in the community 2 – Prescribes 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 od patient communication

9.    Patient counselling and Communication 2 – Product-specific counseling points

10.    Poisons and spirits

About the Authors:

Christopher A Langley BSc, PhD, MRPharmS, MRSC, FHEA, he is a qualified pharmacist who graduated from Aston University in 1996 and then undertook his pre-registration training at St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey. Upon registration, he returned to Aston University to undertake a PhD within the Medicinal Chemistry Research Group before moving over full-time to Pharmacy Practice. He is currently employed as a senior lecturer in pharmacy practice, specialising in teaching the professional and legal aspects of the degree programme.

His research interests predominantly surround pharmacy education but he is also involved in research examining the role of the pharmacist with both primary and secondary care. This includes research into the pharmacist's role in public health and the reasons behind and possible solutions to the generation of waste medication.

Down Belcher BPharm, MRPharmS, FHEA, he is a qualified pharmacist who graduated from the Welsh School of Pharmacy in 1977 and then undertook her pre-registration training with Boots the Chemist at their Wolver-hampton store. After registration she worked as a relief manager and later as a pharmacy manager for Boots the Chemist until 1984. While raising a family she undertook locum duties for Boots the Chemist and in 1986 became an independent locum working for a small chain of pharmacies in the West Midlands, while also working for Lloyds Chemist.