Welcome to your September issue, which is packed with content that will inform and stimulate thought.
Your outstanding line-up of columnists bring their A-game, as usual. Dr Des Corrigan casts a forensic eye over the potential for herbal treatments for animals. As always, Des looks closely at the research offered to back-up any claims that may be made. However, along with humans, today’s pets and other animals enjoy a longer lifespan than their ancestors.
As Des so astutely points out, this is an area where pharmacists could create a positive revenue stream in both rural and urban settings.
Of course, the bugbear of scrawled prescriptions is nothing new, and clearly the problem isn’t going away. However, Fintan Moore offers a practical solution that just might be a game-changer for you.
Rather than pre-empt Fintan’s advice, I’ll let you read the column yourself, which would be far more enjoyable anyway.
Áine Mac Grory writes a fascinating piece about making the pharmacy a more welcoming place, not just for customers and patients, but also for pharmacists themselves.
She asks an important question: Has the profession unknowingly recruited people with exceptional abilities, while simultaneously creating environments that make those abilities harder to sustain?
Terry Maguire provides the view from ‘Up North’, and asks whether the ‘skinny pen’ has the potential to treat addiction. As always, Terry makes a number of fascinating points and delves into the overwhelming power of addiction, and how the attitude to addicts in the pharmacy has changed over the years.
Naturally, we also offer clinical content written by pharmacists, for pharmacists. A lot of research goes into preparing our clinical content, so we hope you will find it useful as an add-on to your regular diet of clinical reading. As usual, you can earn 2 CPD points by completing our excellent module on Men’s Health.
In other clinical content, we provide some well-crafted articles on the complexities of obesity, as well as a brief overview of helpful weight-loss apps, and the pharmacist’s perspective on obesity treatment.
We also offer an In Focus article on Diabetes, which touches on the increasingly important role of the pharmacist in treatment and monitoring.
Our clinical section is completed with an excellent article on Women’s Health, emphasising how pharmacists are ideally placed to deliver proactive and holistic care for women.
Enjoy your September issue, and as always, feel free to get in touch with thoughts or comments. We are always happy to hear your ideas for stories, clinical topics and features, or a letter to the Editor.
