A qualitative exploration of the interaction between mental illness stigma and preparedness for practice in pharmacy students.

Introduction: Mental illness stigma can result in discriminative practice in pharmacy, such as providing less pharmaceutical care to people living with mental illness (PMI) than those with physical illness. Pharmacy education should aim to reduce the impact of mental illness stigma on the pharmaceutical care of PMI. Whilst previous research has shown that some interventions can reduce stereotyping and prejudice in pharmacy students, the impact on subsequent discrimination is questionable and the reasons for successful and unsuccessful outcomes are unclear.

Clinical pharmacists in general practice: an initial evaluation of activity in one English primary care organisation.

Objectives: This aim of this research was to characterise the breadth and volume of activity conducted by clinical pharmacists in general practice in Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and to provide quantitative estimates of both the savings in general practitioner (GP) time and the financial savings attributable to such activity.

Methods: This descriptive observational study retrospectively analysed quantitative data collected by Dudley CCG concerning the activity of clinical pharmacists in GP practices during 2015.

Key Findings: Over the 9-month period for which data were available, the 5.

The nanopore mass spectrometer.

We report the design of a mass spectrometer featuring an ion source that delivers ions directly into high vacuum from liquid inside a capillary with a sub-micrometer-diameter tip. The surface tension of water and formamide is sufficient to maintain a stable interface with high vacuum at the tip, and the gas load from the interface is negligible, even during electrospray. These conditions lifted the usual requirement of a differentially pumped system.

The Aston Medication Adherence Study: mapping the adherence patterns of an inner-city population.

Background: The Aston Medication Adherence Study was designed to examine non-adherence to prescribed medicines within an inner-city population using general practice (GP) prescribing data.

Objective: To examine non-adherence patterns to prescribed oral medications within three chronic disease states and to compare differences in adherence levels between various patient groups to assist the routine identification of low adherence amongst patients within the Heart of Birmingham teaching Primary Care Trust (HoBtPCT).

Setting: Patients within the area covered by HoBtPCT (England) prescribed medication for dyslipidaemia, type-2 diabetes and hypothyroidism, between 2000 and 2010 inclusively.

Entry characteristics and academic performance of students in a master of pharmacy degree program in the United Kingdom.

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics of a cohort of master of pharmacy (MPharm) students upon entry into the program and examine associations between entry qualifications, type of secondary school attended, socioeconomic status, age, and academic performance in the MPharm program.

Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was conducted of student data for graduates of the Aston University MPharm program during the 5-year period 2005-2006 through 2009-2010 (n=644).

Results: MPharm entrants were disproportionately drawn from socioeconomically deprived areas and independent (private) schools.

Dissociative energy flow, vibrational energy redistribution, and conformeric structural dynamics in bifunctional amine model systems.

Time-resolved multiphoton ionization mass spectrometry coupled with Rydberg Fingerprint Spectroscopy (RFS) has been used to analyze the structural and electronic dynamics of N,N-dimethylphenethylamine (PENNA) and N,N-dimethylcyclohexethylamine (CENNA). In PENNA, the molecule converts from 3p to 3s on a time scale of 149 fs, a process that is reflected in the mass spectrum as the onset of fragmentation. Once in 3s, the overall signal intensity of the PENNA 3s signal shows biexponential decay kinetics, which is attributed to the electronic curve crossing from the Rydberg state to a dissociative antibonding orbital of the ethylenic bridge.

Preparing Physicians for the 21 Century: Targeting Communication Skills and the Promotion of Health Behavior Change.

The prevalence of behavior-related diseases is a predominant concern in the health care profession. Further complicating matters, the biomedical disease model has demonstrated limited effectiveness in treating the consequential array of chronic health conditions. Medical educators have been tasked with developing curricula to better prepare physicians to address the complex health issues of the 21(st) century.

The corporatization of community pharmacy: implications for service provision, the public health function, and pharmacy's claims to professional status in the United Kingdom.

Background: Pharmacy has experienced both incomplete professionalization and deprofessionalization. Since the late 1970s, a concerted attempt has been made to re-professionalize pharmacy in the United Kingdom (UK) through role extension-a key feature of which has been a drive for greater pharmacy involvement in public health. However, the continual corporatization of the UK community pharmacy sector may reduce the professional autonomy of pharmacists and may threaten to constrain attempts at reprofessionalization.

Informed consent and parish clergy.

Pastors are given permission by others to extend care and to practice ministry. This permission may be given in denominational policy, congregational expectations, or individual requests for pastoral care. At the individual level, permission for pastoral care can be understood as analogous to the notion of informed consent in health care ethics.