pharmacy law books

[spohie]

hey, im new to the site. im a first year student tech in a london hospital studying a btech in a london college and nvq 3 at work.

we have just been set a 6 month law assignment at college and sugested to get a law book, someone at work sugested to use "Dale and Appelbe's Pharmacy Law and Ethics" i have however have come across some other law and ethics or law and practice books on the web.

just wanted to see if anyone could comment on or sugest any other pharmacy law books.

thankyou

edit: (i did look arround the site and could not find anything obviosly relevent to this question, sorry if im repeting anyone)

[Scamp]

The RPSGB 'Medicines, Ethics & Practice' Guide is pretty useful.
Available online too

Rpsgb.org: Download Society publications

[Nik]

Hi sophie

Whilst Dale and Applebe is good for stuff on ethics and background info on the medicines act, it is pretty much out of date. This is a problem with all pharmacy law books, once they're published, certain areas of the law change. Your best bet would be the MEP.

[spohie]

sorry, should have made myself clearer, we are also working from the MEP but we have also been advised to use other reading materials aswell. the second year students here sugested that its pretty much re-writing the Dale and Appelbe's book. wanted to find out if there was anything better out there.

thanks

[kemzero]

Dale and Appleby gets my vote all the time
Lots of case studies etc in it, very informative

MEP has its place, its the cornerstone for ethics and practice in pharmacy, whilst Dale & appleby , pharmacy law and ethics , deals with the legal issues (Medicines Act etc) as well as ethical issues.

IMHO for a well rounded view..go for both

[spohie]

cheers Kemzero, thats really helpfull, i have gone ahead and bought the dale and appleby, its not the cheepest of books, also have a copy of the mep... now i just got to make a start on the assigment....