The Pharmaceutical Journal
January 15, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook 80

• Annie get your gun
• Hallucinatory music
• Young aggressors
• Straight talk

Leading Article 81

• Employment changes in pharmacy

News 82-85

• Scottish pharmacists criticise lack of winter planning 82
• NHS Direct jammed by 'flu calls 82
• Glaxo renews call for Relenza on the National Health Service 82
• EC consolidates medicines directives 82
• Pharmacists to run diabetes clinics 83
• Society's North Hampshire branch consults members on way forward 83
• First 13 PCTs approved 83
• Croydon advice project "a success" 84
• MBE for Douglas Skeeles 84
• Ashwin Tanna meets mayoral nomination target 84
• Call to clarify role of pharmacists in public health 85
• Government to replace HEA 85
• US to regulate medicines on the web 85
• New clinical trials qualification 85
• Pharmacy in healthy living centre bid 85

Clinical Pharmacy 86-88

• Increase share of "NHS cake" spent on medicines, ABPI says 86
• Are metoclopramide doses too low? 86
• Predicting response to clozapine 86
• Poor patients wait longer for cardiac surgery 86
• Unlicensed drug use in children "a Europe-wide problem", study finds 87
• Spray-on biodegradable fibres to help heal wounds 87
• Nutritional value of supplements 87
• Vaccinating hospital staff reduces patient 'flu deaths 88
• Cost "hardly arose" in the NICE Relenza decision 88
• New drug licence applications 88
• Quinapril effective for opening blood vessels 88

Business 89

• Boots's concern over Body Zone queues 89
• Unichem takes over Mediphase development 89
• UK spends less on medicines 89
• Lloyds sells 115 Supersave drugstores 89

The Society 90-92

• Statutory Committee 90-91
• Excipients handbook on CD-ROM 91
• Membership photocards for 2000 92
• Obituaries 92

Broad Spectrum 93

• The burdens of history (S. Anderson)

Letters to the Editor 94-95

• Misleading 94
• Pharmacist attachment 94-95
• Service with a smile 95
• History of Aden 95
• New millennium 95

Continuing education 96-97

• Update on antiviral therapy (E. Davies)

Articles 98-102

• Kosovo after the conflict: rebuilding pharmaceutical services (P. Mason) 98-100
• Absent again on sick leave (J. Muir) 101-102

Forum 103-104

• UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group

Original papers 105-111

• A pharmacy workforce survey in the West Midlands: (2) Changes made and planned for the future (H. Boardman et al) 105-108
• Can community pharmacists provide a clinical pharmacy service to community hospitals? (S. Woolfrey et al) 109-111

Products 112

• Lipobay 400µg tablets 112
• Lagap products 112
• Bioglan fluoxetine 112
• New Abbott pack sizes 112
• Medeva Pharma products 112
• Discontinued 112
• Artelac eye drop 112
• Price changes 112

Notice-Board 113-114

• Diary 113
• Future events 113
• Official notices 113
• Credit for learning 113
• About people 114
• Corrections 114
• Personal 114
• Society meetings 114

Our continuing education article this week is an update on antiretroviral therapy (p96).

Scottish 'flu concern

Scottish pharmacists have criticised the lack of an effective winter public health campaign, which could have helped people to cope with the current influenza outbreak (p82)

Kosovo

How pharmaceutical services are being rebuilt in war-torn Kosovo is the subject of an article on p98.

Mental health college

The UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group is to set up a College of Mental Health Pharmacists (p103).

Workforce implications

Further results from the West Midlands pharmacy workforce survey suggest significant implications for community pharmacy in terms of the pool of available pharmacists (p105). Leading article (p81).

Clinical pharmacy services

Researchers from Northumberland have concluded that community pharmacists with appropriate training and support can provide clinical pharmacy services to community hospitals (p109).