The Pharmaceutical Journal,
July 22, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook   114

• Uncertainty and stress
• Gold in the valley
• Talking rubbish
• Addiction with a difference
• Rustling of reeds

Leading Article   115

• Pharmacies need websites

News   116-119

• Temporary fix agreed for prescription switching problem 116
• NHS national plan to threaten Society's registration role? 116
• Blacklist additions 116
• No monopoly, says Lloyds 116
• Patients want information from people, not paper, says Consumers' Association 117
• Hospital ATO jailed after CD theft 117
• NHS Direct curbs demand for out-of-hours GP services 117
• Council member challenges Society over transparency and probity 118
• Society hosts lunch for MPs 118
• GPs should become "care managers", says OHE 118
• New DGFT announced 118
• Should pharmacists take on more prescribing, BMA asks 119
• Menarini's cardiac research donation 119
• Better NHS data links needed 119
• London pharmacy strategy launched 119
• NHS spending plans 119

Clinical Pharmacy   120-122

• Asthma epidemic has peaked, new study suggests 120
• Generic ciclosporin withdrawn 120
• First approval for triple HIV drug 120
• Lamictal-Lamisil dispensing confusion reported 120
• Combining Benecol with statins 120
• Risk of cancer determined largely by environment 121
• OTC statin licences rejected 121
• New approach proposed for tackling drug resistance in cancer cells 121
• Self-management of anticoagulation "feasible and effective" 122
• New Alzheimer's drug approved 122
• Pharmacists excluded from Zyban website 122
• Intranasal midazolam compared with IV diazepam for febrile seizures 122

Business   123

• US internet pharmacies to be regulated by states 123
• GSK merger set for August 123
• Industry should have input to NSFs 123
• Aventis ends Du Pont talks 123
• Briefly
  • Pickles name change 123
  • Unichem window stickers 123

The Society   124-126

• Committee proceedings 124-125
• Obituaries 125
• "String of Pearls" success leads to regular museum tours 126
• Presentation of Society's first award for undergraduate science 126
• Record pass list for registration examination 126

Broad Spectrum   127

• Tomorrow's world? (W. G. Peberdy) 127

Letters to the Editor   128-130

• Pharmaceutical care
  • Philosophical foundation 128
  • In the cafeteria? 128
• PSNC/NPA - No turkeys 128
• Breeding
  • Lawlessness of today 128
  • Concerned 128-129
• Primary care - Violence 129
• Khat - Explaining the attractions 129
• Ethics - Chair welcomed 129
• Veterinary medicine
  • Awaiting the details 130
  • A plea for unity 130
• Drug abuse - Buprenorphine trial for opioid addiction 130

Articles   131-135

• The Data Protection Act 1998 (J. Wingfield) 131
• IT, e-commerce and pharmac-e! (S. Dajani) 132-133
• Nutraceuticals: (2) Glucosamine (L. Rapport and B. Lockwood) 134-135

Original papers   136-140

• Involving community pharmacists in asthma care: lessons from a pilot study (C. Cairns and M. Eveleigh) 136-140

Products   141

• Famotidine tablets 141
• Molipaxin liquid 141
• Parnate tablets 141
• Discontinued 141
• Gaviscon Advance 500ml 141
• Eli Lilly's insulin ranges 141
• Recall - Generics products 141
• Recall - Dermacort 141
• Ultramol soluble tablets 141
• Heelbalm cream 141
• Travelbac capsules 141
• Holiday hints card 141
• Price changes 141

Notice-Board   142-144

• Registration examination successes 142-143
• About people 144
• Appointments 144
• Future events 144
• Corrections 144
• Retirement party 144
• Examination results 144
• Personal 144

Internet

An article published this week contains the message that pharmacists ignore the internet at their peril (p132).
Leading article (p115).

Prescription charge exemption agreement

An agreement has been reached between the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee and the NHS Executive to reduce contractors' losses when prescriptions with incomplete exemption declarations are treated as chargeable items by the pricing authority (p116).

Registration examination

A record number of pharmacy graduates have passed this year's registration examination (p126). Pass list (p142).

Data Protection Act 1998

Implications for pharmacists of new data protection legislation are set out in an article on p131.

Glucosamine

Glucosamine is the subject of the second article in our nutraceuticals series (p134).

Asthma care

Lessons from a pilot study on involving community pharmacists in the care of asthma patients are reported in an original paper this week (p136).