The Pharmaceutical Journal
January 22, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook 116

• Sombre prospect
• Peanut poison
• Distrust rampant

Leading Articles 117

• The choice is yours 117
• Glaxo Smithkline 117

News 118-121

• Translate talk into money, PSNC is to tell the Government 118
• MBE for June Martin 118
• Austria faces court over vitamins 118
• Sport Council calls for urine steroid limits 119
• Welsh hospital website 119
• Belgian pharmacists loosen grip on sales 119
• Senior nurses get 7.8 per cent pay rise 119
• MP calls for statutory medicines testing for children 119
• Dome visitors shown pharmacists' changing roles 120
• PI pressure on France 120
• MCA to form borderline products review panel 120
• POM Order amended 120
• No Smoking Day 2000 launched 121
• £30bn more for the NHS? 121
• NHS fraud costs £150m a year, Public Accounts Committee says 121
• MPs against wider emergency contraception 121
• Propecia to be blacklisted 121

Clinical Pharmacy 122-124

• Methylnaltrexone for opioid-induced constipation? 122
• Clarifying sun cream labelling 122
• Temozolomide for melanoma 122
• Pharmacy based trial of NSAID lozenges 123
• WHO's final push on polio 123
• Non-adherence and HIV drug failure 124
• Fortify flour with folic acid, report says 124
• Liver toxicity reported in patients taking rosiglitazone 124

Business 125-126

• Glaxo Smithkline to be formed in £114bn "merger of equals" 125
• Pfizer, Warner-Lambert, AHP tango continues 125
• Phoenix hints at further expansion 126
• David Wood to head Numark 126
• Open d4T website "was advertising" 126

The Society 127-129

• Society to seek members' views on pharmacy's regulatory framework 127
• Obituaries 127
• Birdsgrove holiday success 127
• Statutory Committee
  • £98,000 prescription claims fraud leads to striking-off order 128
  • Reprimand for failure to dispose of obsolete medicines 128-129
  • Pharmacist reprimanded for unsupervised sales 129

Letters to the Editor 130-133

• Wrong route on Presidency 130
• More pragmatism needed 130-131
• Inappropriate title 131
• Why ask? 131
• Simple solution 131
• E coli puzzle 131
• Ethical problems 132
• No more toil 132
• Wrong prescription 132
• Breaking the law? 132
• Mydriatic-cycloplegic drugs 133
• Uninformed 133

Continuing education 134-139

• Travel medicine: (3) Food and water hygiene for the traveller (L. Goodyer)

Articles 140-143

• Redefining access to primary care: NHS Direct and community pharmacy (K. Pearce) 140-141
• NHS Direct: Focus on pharmacy's role (P. Mason) 142-143

Special feature - Careers in pharmacy 144-160

• Part-time work in community pharmacy - a bridge, a trap or a balance? 144-147
• Multiple community pharmacy 148-149
• A career as a practice pharmacist 149-150
• Careers and development in a growing industrial sector 150-151
• PJ Online for students 151
• Opportunities in the civil service 152-153
• Hospital pharmacy as a career 153-154
• Community pharmacy - an optimistic future 154-155
• Writing opportunities for pharmacists 156
• A year in the life of an army pharmacist 157-160

Forum 161

• NICE

Products 162

• Aromasin tablets 162
• Cardicor tablets 162
• Norditropin Simplexx 162
• Generics [UK] products 162
• Fluoxetine capsules 162
• Packaging change 162
• Home screening test kits 162
• Price changes 162

Notice-Board 163-164

• Diary 163
• Future events 163
• Drug tariff updates 164
• Library additions 164
• Announcements 164
• Appointments 164
• Corrections 164
• Retirement 163

Front Cover Picture

Our front cover photograph is of a street food stall in Thailand. It draws attention to the third article in our continuing education series on travel medicine, which this week focuses on food and water hygiene (p134).

Glaxo Smithkline merger

Glaxo Wellcome and Smithkline Beecham have announced a £114bn "merger of equals" to form a new company, Glaxo Smithkline. The merger, which is being opposed by MSF, has received a cool reaction from the stock market (p125). Comment (p117).

Phoenix expansion

Phoenix Medical Supplies wants to expand its United Kingdom operations and is looking for businesses to acquire (p126).

Community pharmacy and NHS Direct

This week we publish two articles which look at the implications of NHS Direct for community pharmacy (p140 and p142).

Pharmacy careers

Our annual special feature on careers in pharmacy is published this week (pp144-160). The feature contains articles on careers in the various sectors of community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy and industrial pharmacy. It also offers information on careers in the Civil Service, in the army and in journalism. Comment (p117).