The Pharmaceutical Journal
January 1, 2000

Back issues

Comment

An Onlooker's Notebook 2

• Millennium muddle
• Chilly Christmas
• A mad world, my masters

Leading Article 3

• With the tide

News 5-6

• Appeal Court rules that pharmacists can sell script data 5
• PCG pays pharmacists for prescription interventions 5
• Welsh trust to outsource pharmacy 5
• Generics market was manipulated, Health Select Committee says 6
• Government announces terms of generics review 6

Clinical Pharmacy 7-8

• New tobramycin formulation licensed for nebulisation 7
• Beta-interferon money better spent elsewhere, say neurologists 7
• Zinc supplements may reduce pneumonia and diarrhoea 7
• Isotretinoin availability under threat 8
• Survey finds gap between social classes in prevalence of cardiovascular disease 8
• Single dose secretin "no more effective than placebo" for autism 8

The Society 9-10

• Council sets standards for internet pharmacy 9
• Society backs hearing damage campaign 10
• New concordance newsletter 10
• Obituaries 10
• MEP guide: January amendments 10

Letters to the Editor 11-12

• Answers please 11
• Commendable research network 11
• Waste of drugs 11
• Pharmaceutical input needed 12
• Take the hard option 12
• A gamble 12

The Millennium 13-34

• The future of the profession (C. M. Glover) 13-14
• Professional business: the achievements of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society since 1841 (S. W. F. Holloway) 15-21
• Community pharmacy: alternative visions (N. Barber) 22-23
• Hospital pharmacy: thinking the unthinkable (K. Farrar) 24-25
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing into the future (J. Jolley) 26
• The role of international pharmacy organisations (J. Ferguson) 27-29
• Pharmacy education: a way ahead? (P. Nicholls) 30-31
• The year 1000: pharmacy at the turn of the first millennium (S. W. F. Holloway) 32-34

Original papers 35-38

• Shared learning - a collaborative education and training initiative for community pharmacists and general medical practitioners (R. M. Parr et al)

Products 39

• Micardis tablets 39
• Tobi nebuliser solution 39
• Lysovir capsules 39
• Enalapril tablets 39
• Adenoscan 39
• Discontinued 39
• Transient ischaemic attack leaflets 39

Notice-Board 40

• Diary 40
• Drug tariff updates 40
• Future events 40
• Corrections 40
• Prize crossword 40

The Millennium Wheel is situated on the South Bank of the Thames in London. It ties in with our special feature on "The Millennium".
The feature (pp13-34) contains articles, which, inspired by the dawning of the new millennium, look back into the history and forward into the future of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, pharmaceutical manufacturing, international pharmacy organisations and education.
Leading article (p3).

Generics market "manipulated"

The market for generic drugs was manipulated through "artificial shortages", the Commons Health Select Committee has concluded (p6).

Standards for internet pharmacy

The Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has published a document laying down standards of good professional practice for those providing pharmaceutical services via the internet (p9).

Shared learning

Research from the Scottish Centre for Post Qualification Pharmaceutical Education week shows that community pharmacists and general medical practitioners can benefit from collaborative education and training (p35).