The Pharmaceutical Journal
April 22, 2000

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Comment

An Onlooker's Notebook   608

• Wasting resources
• Dangerous plant
• The downward path

Leading Article   609

• Keeping up on care

News   610-612

• Society tells PM how pharmacists can help meet his NHS challenges 610
• Call for Ministers to relinquish control of NHS 610
• PSNC supports NPA on EHC 611
• PSG challenges Society to lead 611
• PM's repeat prescribing comment welcomed by PSNC 611
• Training facilitator post launched 611
• Students call for an end to multiple choice in registration examination 612
• YPG plans to buy a pharmacy 612
• Poor medicines trade figures expected 612
• RCGP prepares pharmacy report 612
• Call to improve demographic data 612

Clinical Pharmacy   613-614

• Aspirin reduces risk of postoperative thromboembolism, trial finds 613
• US institute recommends maximum vitamin doses 613
• New bisphosphonate launched for treating and preventing  osteoporosis 614
• Calcipotriol as effective as potent steroids for psoriasis, review finds 614

Business   615

• Gehe seeks more pharmacies in Europe 615
• Boots goes to work on an Egg, but fails to impress City 615
• Phoenix moves to Nordic market 615
• Most patients have never used internet 615

The Society   616-617

• Society consults on Council composition and elections 616
• Announcement: Questions for Council candidates 616
• "Over to you"hits the road again in May 616
• Briefings for Scottish politicians on community pharmacy and emergency hormonal contraception 616
• Obituaries
  • Anne Anstice 617
  • Allenby 617
  • De Rome 617
  • Ellard 617
  • Gray 617
  • Newsome 617
  • Perfect 617
• Bibliography on business management 617

Broad Spectrum   618

• Whither pharmacy? Or wither pharmacy?(A. T. Wiseman)

Letters to the Editor   619-621

• The Society
  • Loyalty and co-operation augur well 619
  • Communication channels do work 619
  • Look after our welfare! 619
• Extemporaneous Dispensing- Improvement not abandonment 619
• Community pharmacy - Analysis needed 620
• Patient information leaflets -Clarify the position 620
• Paracetamol - Admissions 620
• DNA - Developed? 620
• Controlled Drugs - Handwriting requirements clarified 620
• Clinical Pharmacy - Services to community hospitals 621
• Pharmacist prescribing - Inappropriate strategy 621
• Eclipse glasses- Available in Germany 621

Continuing education   622-626

• Atrial fibrillation: (1) The condition(G. Y. H. Lip and S. Kamath)

Forum   627-634

• Madrid Pharmacists Association/Peters Institute 627-632
• Institute of Pharmacy Management International/Young Pharmacists Group
  • Public "will demand on-line pharmacy" 633
  • Progress of e-pharmacy businesses 633
  • Internet challenge for health care 634
  • Live link-up 634
  • Pitfalls in acquiring a pharmacy business 634

Products   635

• Actonel tablets 635
• Migramax sachets 635
• Foradil 635
• Generics UK Ltd. 635
• Medeva products 635
• Discontinued 635

Notice-Board   636-638

• Diary 636
• Official notices 636
• Future Events 636
• Appointments 636
• About people 636
• Library additions 636
• Health Promotion 637
• Corrections 638
• Marriages 638

Front Cover Picture

Our front cover photograph is of a statue of King Felipe III in Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain. Madrid was the venue for the First International Meeting on Pharmaceutical Care. Report (pp627-632). Leading article (p609).

Response to Prime Minister

In a week when the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee welcomed the Prime Minister's positive comments on pharmacist repeat prescribing (p611), the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has written to him explaining how pharmacists can contribute to the five areas identified in his challenge to modernise the National Health Service (p610).

Gehe expansion desire

Following its success with the Lloyds Pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Gehe wants to form similar chains of pharmacies in European countries, where possible (p615).

Atrial fibrillation

This week we begin a new continuing education series on atrial fibrillation (p622).

IPMI/YPG conference

We report the first joint conference of the Institute of Pharmacy Management International and the Young Pharmacists Group (p633). The conference was told that the public would demand on-line pharmacy, but an opinion poll has shown that most patients have never used the internet (p615).