Table 2.

Possible activities of an NHS clinical pharmacologist in any atypical week

Day	am	pm
Monday	Ward round (business and undergraduate teaching); library	Chair Drug and Therapeutics Committee (lunch-time); out-patients clinic (general medicine, new and returning patients)
Tuesday	Research with academic colleague; scrutinize proofs of the next issue of the British National Formulary; acute take round (evening)
Wednesday	Lecture (e.g. advanced medicine course); other postgraduate teaching; library	NICE technology appeals committee: a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease
Thursday	Write papers; library	General medical grand round; radiology meeting; student case presentations
Friday	Ward round (business and undergraduate teaching)	Out-patients clinic (hypertension, new and returning patients)
Weekend and evenings	Clinical work, writing, editing, preparation for committees/consultancies