The Pharmaceutical Journal November 20, 1999

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An Onlooker's Notebook 804

• Ancient man-eaters
• Drugs for stress disorder
• Keep left

Leading Articles 805

• Pharmacy and pay review bodies 805
• A long time in politics 805

News 806-809

• Hospital pharmacy pay rises by between 3 and 12 per cent 806
• PPA considers category D set-aside 806
• PPA two months behind on payment 806
• Training award for NI centre 807
• Government to start medical QA 807
• Three pharmacists for MCA advertising review panel 807
• Staff could feel threatened by clinical standards 808
• Pharmacy strategy "shortly" 808
• Pharmacy input into mental health crisis teams crucial, President says 809
• Department reveals why Regent's licence was suspended 809
• NPA health improvement frameworks 809
• Assistant director for CPPE 809

Clinical Pharmacy 810-812

• CSM confidence in pharmacist ADR reporting 810
• Acromegaly may be treated in the community, say researchers 810
• Surgical sealant caution 810
• Phase I cannabis trial completed 811
• Metformin may be useful in polycystic ovary syndrome 811
• Colds and 'flu outbreak "only a few weeks away" 811
• Ramipril data published 811
• Nitric oxide reported to be useful for Raynaud's syndrome 812
• Study finds no difference between losartan and captopril in reducing heart failure deaths 812
• Drugs from semen? 812
• Neuraminidase inhibitors "would have worked against 1918 Spanish 'flu" 812

Business 813

• "Work with us, we can help," says SSL 813
• Revamp leads to Unichem award 813
• Celltech to buy Medeva 813

The Society 814-815

• Committee Proceedings 814-815
• Obituaries 815
• PJOnline update 815

Broad Spectrum 816

• Limitation — don't "modernise", modify (R. Blyth)

Letters to the Editor 817-819

• Common sense 817
• Typical attitude 817
• Hospital pharmacy - amazing response 817
• Multifactoral problem 818
• Many "white" peoples 818
• More rules and regulations? 818
• Conscience clause 818
• Treatment choice factor 819
• Need for oversight 819
• Support for name changes 819

Special feature 820-825

• Wound care: Wound management products in the Drug Tariff (D. A. Morgan)

Articles 826-831

• Pharmacist support for people with learning disabilities

Forum 832-835

• Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists 832-833
• Independent Panel for Pharmaceutical Education 834-835

Products 836

• Okacyn eye-drops 836
• Patient packs 836
• Lipitor SPC changes 836
• Desferal 2g injection 836
• Neoral capsules 836
• Slow-Fe folic 836
• Herbal products 836
• Fluorigard weekly rinse 836
• Cavilon no sting barrier film 836
• Prosobee powder 836
• Entera Fibre Plus tube feed 836
• Unichem range 836

Notice-Board 837-838

• Diary 837
• Future events 837
• Drug tariff updates 837
• Announcements 837
• About people 837
• Exchanges 837
• Wants list 837
• Corrections 837
• Research award 837

Front Cover Picture

Our front cover photograph (Mölnlycke) shows Melgisorb cavity dressing, one of the newer dressings described in our special feature on wound management products in the Drug Tariff (p820).

Hospital pharmacists pay

Hospital pharmacists have accepted pay rises of between 3 and 12 per cent, dependent on grade (p806). Leading article (p805).

Supporting people with learning disabilities

This week we publish a paper from the Pharmacy Community Care Liaison Group that is intended to help pharmacists provide support to people with learning disabilities and their relatives and carers (p826).

Procurement

Current trends in procurement were discussed recently by the procurement and distribution special interest group of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists (p832).

New roles for technicians

Pharmacy technicians from around Europe met in London on November 5 to hear how their roles could be enhanced to provide new hospital pharmacy services (p834).