The Pharmaceutical Journal November 13, 1999

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An Onlooker's Notebook 768

• Haunted lives
• Tootsie warmth
• A broad base

Leading Article 769

• Full steam ahead on ADR reporting

News 770-775

• £500,000 for pharmaceutical care pilots in Scotland 770
• Stop smoking for the millennium in Hull 770
• Glasgow pharmacy to offer free pharmaceutical care 771
• Code of conduct for YPG committee 772
• Ashwin Tanna — mayor of London? 772
• Contract regulations under threat? 772
• Minister's PS is a pharmacist 772
• Companies deny inflating prices by causing shortage of medicines 773
• New advertising guidance published 774
• New standards to be set for doctors 774
• PPA issues millennium advice 774
• Former pharmacist sentenced for neglect of duties 775
• Bus tickets to direct people to pharmacies 775
• Long term pay deals for NHS staff? 775
• Herbal medicines controls move to Europe 775

Clinical Pharmacy 776-778

• "Yellow card" reporting now allowed for all community pharmacists 776
• New class of cardiovascular drug 777
• Antibiotic prescribing and local resistance 777
• Call for wider availability of nicotine replacement therapy 777
• Gender effect seen with lipid drug 777
• New antimalarial venture 777
• Study finds patients do not mix cartridge insulin properly before use 778
• NICE to begin clinical guidelines programme 778
• Losec capsules back again 778
• No news on zinc nasal spray 778

Business 779

• "We are ready for Wal-Mart," says Boots 779
• Pfizer and AHP in battle for Warner-Lambert 779
• Supermarkets level on health sales 779

The Society 780-781

• Obituaries 780-781
• Minister visits Society 781
• New members tour Society's HQ 781

Broad Spectrum 782

• Concordance — last link in the chain? (D. Webb et al)

Letters to the Editor 783-785

• Contact limitation - the key issues 783
• Losec - not discontinued 783
• Mr Smith's place 783
• Patient packs - inexusable problems 783
• Technician registration - conventional route 784
• Ipriflavone 784
• Why reports are annonymous 784
• Adapting premises for work 784
• Packaging - avoiding risk 785
• Registration - deviating from the issue 785
• The Society - misguided action 785
• Modified release - naming proposal 785

Original papers 786-791

• Community pharmacist reporting of suspected ADRs: (1) The first year of the yellow card demonstration scheme (S. Davis and R. Coulson) 786-788
• Community pharmacist reporting of suspected ADRs: (2) Attitudes of community pharmacists and general practitioners in Wales (J. Houghton et al) 788-791

Articles 792-793

• The centre for evidence-based pharmacotherapy at Aston (P. Mason) 792-793

Forum 794-799

• IPMI/AIPM conference
  • The pharmacist as vending machine 794
  • Australia's community pharmacy accreditation system 795
  • Keeping it simple in improving business performance 795
  • Should new non-NHS drugs be P? 795
• Pharmaceutical Sciences Group and Middlesex university 796-798
• The Oshwal Pharmacists 799

Products 800

• Arava tablets 800
• Nabumetone tablets 800
• Caverject syringe 800
• Hypurin insulin 800
• Recall - Amitriptyline tablets 800
• Papulex gel 800
• Addition to drug tariff 800
• Numark home cholesterol test kit 800

Notice-Board 801-802

• Diary 801
• Official notices 801
• Future events 801
• About people 802
• Wants list 802
• Announcements - IJPP contents 802
• Personal 802
• Australian visitors 802

Front Cover Picture

This week's front cover photograph ties in with the news from the Medicines Control Agency that the yellow card reporting scheme for adverse drug reactions is to be extended to all community pharmacists (p776). Original papers (p786 and p788). Leading article (p769).

Pharmaceutical care in Scotland

The Scottish Health Department has allocated £500,000 to be spent on community-based pharmaceutical care projects over the next year (p770).

Glasgow pharmacy's new direction

A Glasgow community pharmacy is to offer free pharmaceutical care to a selected group of patients who the pharmacy's owner believes would benefit from closer attention to their medicines (p771).

Aston pharmacotherapy centre

The work of the centre for evidence-based pharmacotherapy at Aston university is described in an article this week (p792).

Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine was the subject of a meeting held recently at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's headquarters. Our report appears on pp796-798.