Pharmacy Practice, 6th Edition

Section 1: The Patient

1. Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
2. Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
3. Communication skills for pharmacists and their team
4. Consent
5. History Taking/ Gathering Information
6. Concordance
7. Advice giving and the pharmacist as a health trainer

Section 2: The Medicine

8. Control of medicines
9. The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
10. Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
11. Formularies in pharmacy practice
12. Complementary and alternative medicines
13. Using calculations in pharmacy practice
14. Veterinary pharmacy

Section 3: The Medicine Formulation

15. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
16. Oral unit dosage forms
17. Packaging
18. Solutions
19. Suspensions
20. Emulsions
21. External preparations
22. Suppositories and pessaries
23. Powders and granules

Section 4: The Specialized Pharmacy Product

24. Production of sterile products
25. Parenteral products
26. Opthalmic products
27. Inhaled products
28. Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
29. Radiopharmacy
30. Specialized services
31. Appliances

Section 5: The Pharmacy Safety Process

32. Clinical governance
33. Risk management
34. Standard operating procedures
35. Audit
36. Information retrieval in pharmacy practice
37. Control of health professionals and their staff
38. Continuing professional development and revalidation

Section 6: The role of pharmacy in healthcare

39. The role of pharmacy in healthcare
40. Ethics – the theory
41. Ethics in practice and ethical dilemmas
42. Public health
43. Structure and organization of pharmacy
44. Intra- and inter-professional working

Section 7: The patient, their medicine and beyond

45. The prescription
46. Patient charges of medicines and their impact on access
47. Routes of administration and dosage forms
48. Labelling of dispensed medicines
49. Monitoring the patient
50. The role of the pharmacist in medicines optimisation
51. Public health and pharmacy interventions
52. Substance use and misuse

From customer reviews of the previous edition:

‘A great book. Everything is well organised and easy to understand. Covers all topics an undergraduate pharmacy student would need … useful for a practising pharmacist too.’

‘This is an excellent introduction to pharmacy practice. It is an excellent read. Very well worth buying if you are a pharmacist or chemist.’

‘I'm a final year medical student and found this great for all those learning outcomes that are really difficult to find. Things like details on the yellow card scheme and MHRA that I'd previously spent hours searching for - a concise, clear explanation of can be found here. There are also useful things like consent, capacity, health-behaviour models, prescription writing, controlled drugs and homeopathy information … mops up the learning outcomes that most other books don't cover… I've used it most for the practise drugs calculations as we have formatives on these and end of year OSCEs too!’