The Pharmaceutical Journal,
October 21, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook   590

• Professional roles
• Blind sleepers
• Disputed territory
• Sobering thought

Leading Articles   591

• Pharmacy and the future
• Editor wanted

News   592-594

• Boots expresses concern over electronic prescription transfer trials 592
• Great interest in ETP trials 592
• ABPI booklets for schools 592
• Scots launch research into access to community health services 592
• BNF collection for Pharmaid 592
• Richmond PCG starts pharmacy 'flu vaccination referrals 593
• EU to review policies on international trade in medicines 593
• Professor Blenkinsopp appointed to modernisation taskforce 593
• Boots to launch television channel 593
• Floods hit Boots pharmacies 594
• Qualified welcome for NHS staff performance framework 594
• NHS Direct information kiosks launched 594
• Society’s chief scientist in the news 594
• New NPC adviser training programme 594

Clinical Pharmacy   595-597

• Fibre supplementation increases colorectal adenomas, study says 595
• Effects of inhaled steroids on growth 595
• Lung cancer now kills more women than breast cancer 595
• Antibiotic therapy in cystic fibrosis 596
• Treat infections "hard and fast" 596
• Hydrochlorothiazide and bone mineral density 596
• HRT and heart disease consensus 596
• Effects of paracetamol pack size restriction on overdose 597
• Use paracetamol first for osteoarthritis, say US guidelines 597
• Safety advantage reported for aceclofenac 597
• Colic linked with maternal smoking  597

The Society   598

• Make better use of MPs, Commons pharmacist tells branch secretaries 598
• Society seeks new PJ editor 598
• Obituaries 598
• Briefing for Scottish politicians on pharmacy and public health 598

Letters to the Editor   599-601

• Core values 599
• The society
  • Manning the Society’s Chemex stand 599
  • Ethnic recruitment 599
• Prescribing 600
• Packaging 600
• Cannabis 600
• Labelling 601
• Medicines sales 601
• Heart disease
  • Detergent risk to the gut? 601
  • Always well rinsed 601

Broad Spectrum   602

• The McDonaldisation of pharmacy (Geoffrey Harding and Kevin Taylor) 602

Special feature   603-614

• Pharmaceutical care: (10) Palliative care (J. Urie et al) 603-614

Articles   615-621

• The new pharmacy plan: how should the profession respond? (S. Chapman) 615-618
• The Comparative Utilisation of Resource Evaluation model: a CURE for all diseases 619-621

Conference   622-627

• Industrial Pharmacy Session 622-623
• Glaxo Wellcome Award Lecture 624-625
• Plenary Session 625-626
• News and Notes 626
• Science Symposium 627

International   628-630

• World Congress of Pharmacy - What pharmacists should know about volatile oils
  • Why oils with the same name may vary in quality 628
  • Are essential oils essentially safe? 628
  • Need for quality control to combat adulteration of essential oils 629
  • Claims for therapeutic benefits of essential oils are often bogus 629
  • Is the effect of volatile oils all in the mind? 629
• Smoking cessation: world-wide urgency 630

Forum   631-632

• Royal Society of Medicine/Gesellschaft für Versicherungswissenschaft und Gestaltung 631-632

Products   633

• Prescription products
  • Meptid SPC changes 633
  • Desferal SPC changes 633
  • Plaquenil tablets 633
  • Naproxen tablets 633
  • Trazodone capsules 633
  • Nicardipine capsules 633
• Recall
  • Coro-Nitro pump spray 633
  • Cipramil oral drops 633
  • Trasylol injection 633
  • Gelofusine IV infusion 633
• Counter Medicines
  • Niquitin CQ patches 633
  • Goldshield products 633
• Miscellany
  • Juvela gluten-free loaves 633
  • Beechams cold & 'flu website 633

Notice-Board   634

• Diary 634
• Announcements 634
• Personal 634

Front Cover Picture

This week’s front cover photograph (Mike Wyndham Medical Picture Collection) draws attention to a special feature on palliative care — the latest in our series of feature articles on aspects of pharmaceutical care (p603).

PJ editor

The post of editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal has now been advertised (p598). Leading article, (p591).

The pharmacy plan

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society needs to act promptly to meet the challenges of the National Health Service pharmacy plan, says the author of an article on the plan’s implications for pharmacy practice (p615). Leading article (p591).

Drug evaluation and selection

The Comparative Utilisation of Resources Evaluation (CURE) model, a flexible model for drug evaluation and selection, is described in an article this week (p619).

The Conference

Our continuing coverage of the British Pharmaceutical Conference includes a report of sessions for industrial pharmacists (p622).

Delivering health care

Problems common to the UK and Germany in delivering health care were addressed at a recent meeting in Germany (p631).