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Gareth Nickless

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Gareth Nickless is lead clinical liaison tutor for the postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy at Liverpool John Moores University.

How to take an accurate and detailed medication history

Obtaining an accurate medication history is an essential part of medicine reconciliation and a process that pharmacists play a vital role in.…

Shaping a pharmacist’s formative years

Pharmacists undertaking postgraduate diplomas need adequate support throughout the course, and tutors should be familiar with practice-based assessment.…

How to prepare for and contribute to a consultant’s ward round

Do you spend hours scouring patient notes to determine the indication for a prescribed medicine or chasing doctors to correct prescribing errors? Perhaps you should join the consultant’s ward round…

How to interpret liver function tests

Patients with abnormal liver function tests are encountered commonly by pharmacists. It is therefore helpful to know how to amend patients’ treatments and when such amendments might be necessary.…

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