The Pharmaceutical Journal,
December 16, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook   870

• Debriefing debunked
• Those polygraphs again
• Peer pressure
• Parkinson's pesticide

Leading Articles   871

• Happy New Year?

• News   872-876

  • EHC to become a pharmacy medicine 872
  • Mixed reactions to EHC announcement 872
  • Public dissatisfaction with NHS grows 872
  • NPA pharmacy in the future action plan 873
  • Guild call for ETP compatibility 874
  • Pharmacy educators to collaborate on pharmacy plan 874
  • Care needs to be rolled back, says 2020 panel 874
  • BNF and PSNC go on NPAnet 874
  • PSI opens refurbished headquarters 875
  • GP PMS schemes expand 875
  • ETP pilots will cover 50 GPs, says PPA 875
  • Leadership training for nurses 875
  • Error reporting scheme wins GHP/NPA award 876
  • MPs get pharmacy briefing 876
  • Guild launches new research award 876
  • Hospital medicines management framework launched 876
  • Police seek pharmacists' help 876

  Clinical Pharmacy   877-879

  • Thioridazine - new restrictions on use 877
  • Peginterferon alfa-2a "more effective" than interferon alfa-2a 877
  • "Keep going" with ACE inhibitors in diabetes 877
  • Galantamine"effective and well tolerated"in Alzheimer's disease   878
  • Asthma patients dangerously under treated, study reveals    878
  • "Promising"trial results for new breast cancer drug 878
  • Insufficient evidence for isoflavones? 878
  • Calcium antagonists "inferior" to other hypertensives 879
  • Advice tips: (50) Co-careldopa tablets 879
  • Target cholesterol reached using  statin  879

  Business   880-881

  • Pharmalife Ltd: Laying the foundations for a pharmacy e-commerce business (J. Buisson) 880-881
  • Unichem makes Turkish acquisition 881
  • Tatford hosts Russian visit 881
  • New date for GSK merger 881

  The Society   882-892

  • December Council meeting   882-888
  • Presentation of honorary membership certificates 884-885
  • Obituaries 888-889
  • Animal medicines inspectorate moves to Stoneleigh 889
  • Museum listed in Arab heritage guide 889
  • Guidance on pharmacy supply of EHC 890-892

  Broad Spectrum   893

  • Evidence-based medicine - is   pharmacy keeping up? (L. Matowe) 893

  Letters to the Editor   894-897

  • Patient Group Directions
    • Applicable to voluntary sector hospices 894
    • Patient specific directions 894
  • Academia
    • How many pharmacists? 894
  • Ingredient prices
    • Scepticism 895
    • Expensive mistake 895
  • Physician-assisted suicide
    • Delicate subject 896
    • No "human" right to die 896
  • Fraud prevention
    • Inadequate systems 896
  • NHS plan
    • Leaving the crossroads 896-897
  • Statutory Committee
    • Bizarre logic 897
  • Remuneration
    • Pharmacists too apathetic 897

  Products   898

• Prescription Products
  • Thioridazine new indication 898
  • Prozac 898
  • Solian tablets 898
  • Atrovent Aerocaps 898
  • Desferal 898
  • Betahistine tablets 898
  • Bezalip Mono tablets 898
  • Haemaccel infusion 898
  • Discontinued 898
  • Patient leaflets 898
• Counter Medicines
  • Propain Caplets 898
  • Junior Califig 898
• Miscellany
  • Demonstration patch kit 898
  • Opti-free express solution 898
  • E45 emollient shower cream 898
  • Paediasure 898
  Notice-Board   899-900
• Official notices
  • Official Notices 899
• Future events
  • Future events 899
• Appointments
  • Appointments 899
• Announcements
  • Announcements 899
• Drug Tariff Amendments
  • Drug Tariff Amendments 899
• Christmas closures
  • Christmas closures 900
• About people
  • About people 900
• Corrections
  • Corrections 900
• Personal
  • Births 900

Front Cover Picture

Levonelle, the emergency hormonal contraceptive, will become a pharmacy medicine on January 1, 2001. Appropriately labelled stocks, however, are unlikely to become available for sale before the end of the month (p872). Mixed reactions (p872). Leading article (p871).

EHC practice guidance

The Society has prepared practice guidance on the supply of emergency hormonal contraception as a pharmacy medicine (p890).

Pharmacy plan

The National Pharmaceutical Association and the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists have responded to the pharmacy plan. The NPA intends to strengthen the community pharmacy message (p873). The guild has called for systems for electronic transfer of prescription data to be compatible across the primary/secondary care interface (p874).

E-Commerce

We take a look this week at one of the first pharmacy business-to-business e-commerce ventures to see how it is faring in a trading environment that has become much harsher since its launch early in the year (p880).

Council meeting

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council agreed at its December meeting to appoint Dr June Crown to lead the next stage of the Society's pharmacist prescribing project (p882).