Main description:

This is a comprehensive guide to law and ethics for pharmacy practice in the UK. "Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics" has become established as the standard student textbook and reference work on this subject in the UK. A knowledge of pharmacy law is a substantial and compulsory component of the undergraduate and pre-registration pharmacy syllabus in the UK and changes to the syllabus and practice require the text to be updated regularly. This revised edition provides a comprehensive guide to the law that affects the practice of pharmacy and the use of medicines in Great Britain, and complete coverage of the pharmacy undergraduate and pre-registration syllabus and British law relating to medicines and poisons.

Contents:

1. Sources of Law; 2. Scope and Administration; 3. The Licensing System; 4. Sales Promotion of Medicinal Products; 5. Retail Pharmacy Business; 6. Pharmacy Medicines; 7. General Sale Medicines; 8. Prescription Only Medicines; 9. Retail Sale and Supply Exemptions From Controls for Other Persons; 10. Wholesale Dealing; 11. Sale and Supply of Homeopathic Medicines; 12. Herbal Remedies; 13. Veterinary Medicinal Products; 14. Prohibitions for Protection of the Purchaser; 15. Containers, Packages and Identification; 16. Pharmacopoeias and Other Publications; 17. Misuse of Drugs Act 1971; 18. Poisons Act; 19. Spirits and Methylated Spirits; 20. Dangerous Substances and Consumer Protection; 21. Miscellaneous Legislation Affecting Pharmacy; 22. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; 23. Professional Conduct; 24. The Statutory Committee of the RPSGB; 25. Organisation of Other Professions; 26. National Health Service Law and Management; 27. Legal Decisions Affecting Pharmacy.