The Pharmaceutical Journal
May 27, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook   786

• Alzheimer remedy
• Holiday madness
• The mirror and the sword
• Mad with neighbours

Leading Articles   787

• Electing the President
• Spread too thin?

News   788-791

• POM-to-P consultation for EHC 788
• Society EHC comment 788
• Pharmacist beaten 788
• New meeting on pharmacy's future 788
• RPM hearing to start on October 2 789
• Norton discontinues 23 generic lines 789
• Minister launches NPA roadshow 789
• Scottish HTB appointment 789
• Chelsea Flower Show 2000 790
• No-Smoking Day competition winners 790
• Government plans NHS television services 790
• EC launches €300m strategy for health 791
• Scottish Health Minister opens Edinburgh pharmacy 791
• Negotiation skills most important for PCG pharmacists 791
• Co-op seeks to reopen pharmacy 791

Clinical Pharmacy   792-794

• First results from liver transplant study favour use of tacrolimus 792
• Osteoporosis month 792
• DEET removed from most Jungle Formula products 793
• Use of honey for treating infected wounds 793
• Advice to patients: (41) Amlodipine 793
• 'Flu vaccine for more people 793
• Remote control capsule for absorption studies 794
• "Intensified efforts" needed for polio eradication 794
• New PPI may offer advantages over omeprazole, Astra Zeneca studies show 794
• Paracetamol and the heart 794

Business   795

• Nucare seeks to raise £9m 795
• Kirit Patel appointed to SBC 795
• GSK consolidates administration 795
• March sales figures 795
• Wrafton aims to double Braunton plant 795

The Society   796-806

• The Council: Procedure for the election of Officers 796-797
• Obituaries 797
• Annual report erratum 797
• Core values discussion paper 798
• Museum welcomes hundreds of visitors 798
• Law and Ethics Bulletin 798
• Branch representatives' meeting
  • Pros and cons of STV discussed 799
  • Call for reconsideration of Council election canvassing 800
  • No support for electoral college for Society's presidential elections 801
  • Conference success? 801
  • Representatives want UCAS style scheme for preregistration placements 801-802
  • Branches want their role reviewed 802-804
  • Call for permanent BPSA office at Lambeth headquarters 803
  • Developing pharmacy values: stimulating the debate 804
• "Over to you" on the road again 805-806

Broad Spectrum   807

• The appropriate supply of medicines to patients (D. Hignett) 807

Letters to the Editor   808-811

• Council election
  • Encourage the young 808
  • What message? 808
• Emergency contraception
  • Follow Manchester 808-809
  • Reticence regretted 809
• Pharmacist prescribing - Registration needed 809
• The Society - Part-time? 809
• Generics - When will it all stop? 810
• Alvedon suppositories - Cost questionned 810
• Breeding - To be discouraged 810
• The NHS - Missing out on modernisation 811
• Levodopa - Rectal administration 811
• Extemporaneous dispensing - If we can't, who can? 811
• The internet - Dull date 811

Continuing education   812-816

• Travel medicine: (5) Tropical disease and the traveller (L. Goodyer) 812-816

Articles   817-819

• The development of clinical pharmacy in Indonesia (C. K. Tan and M. Aslam) 817-819
• An Indonesian experience (S. Khan) 819

Forum   820-826

• AESGP 820-821
• British Society for the History of Pharmacy 822-823
• European Society of Clinical Pharmacy
  • Pharmacogenetics and gene therapy 824
  • Threat of resistant organisms 824
  • Preparing the professionals of the future 825
  • Cancer care and HIV service profiles 825
  • Influence of recent trials on diabetes management 826
  • The future of therapeutics 826
  • Short communications 826

Products   827

• Flixotide Evohaler 827
• New indication for Fragmin 827
• Ismelin injection 827
• Motrin 400mg tablets 827
• Monit XL 60 827
• Feminax Caplets repackaged 827
• Proderm dermatological mousse range 827
• OTC Directory 2000/2001 827
• Clarityn Allergy website 827
• Qarma and Eye Q capsules 827
• Beano Caplets 827
• Paediasure Plus 827
• Arthritis help-line 827

Notice-Board   828

• Diary 828
• Future Events 828
• Official notices 828
• About people 828
• Corrections 828
• Personal 828
• Drug tariff updates 828

Front Cover Picture

Our front cover photograph shows a statue of Leifur Eiríksson, the early Icelandic explorer, in front of Hallgrím's church in Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik was the venue for the spring conference of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy. A report of the meeting, a session at which focussed on the potential of pharmacogenetics, appears on pp824-826.

Resale price maintenance

The case to consider whether resale price maintenance on medicines should continue will begin at the Restrictive Practices Court on October 2 (p789).

Officers' election

The election of the Society's officers is now to be done in open Council business. New procedures for the election of the President, Vice-President and Treasurer, together with their job specifications, are set out on pp796-797. Leading article (p787).

Tropical disease

The fifth article in our continuing education series on travel medicine discusses insect-borne diseases and tropical diseases of contact (p812).

Clinical pharmacy teaching in Indonesia

How British pharmacists have helped in developing clinical pharmacy teaching and a drug information centre in Indonesia is described in articles on pp817-819.