Pharmacy undergraduate teaching in the UK has changed to reflect the evolving role of the pharmacist in primary care. Greater emphasis is now placed on the disease or medicines-management activities of the community pharmacist. This textbook concentrates on the holistic approach to patient care - it forms an overview of disease states and prescribing issues to be considered when presented with a drug history in the primary care setting. This title should be valuable to all pharmacy undergraduates, pre-registration graduates and other healthcare professionals.