The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7234
1 February 2003

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Leading Article [PDF (40K)] 138

   Seen but not heard [Text]


News & Features   139-145

   News [Text] [PDF (370K)] 139-144

   University top-up fees: are pharmacy students an endangered species? [Text] [PDF (50K)] 145


Products   146

   Products [Text] [PDF (100K)] 146
   Announcements [Text] 146

   Reunions [Text] 146


Broad Spectrum   148

   Prescribing might not enhance their status as much as pharmacists hope it will [Text] [PDF (40K)] 148


Letters [Text] [PDF (85K)]   149-155


OFT report: reactions [Summary] [PDF (140K)]   156-160

   • The OFT has dropped a bombshell on community pharmacy [Text] 156-157
   • The OFT report is the best thing that could have happened [Text] 158
   • OFT report has been driven by cost concerns, not consumer benefits [Text] 159
   • The OFT has not served consumers well and a phoney war may follow [Text] 160


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   161-162

   CPD summary page

   How to manage change [PDF (70K)] 161-162


Original Papers   163-164

   A survey of junior doctors’ attitudes towards pharmacists and how their interaction can be improved [PDF (55K)] 163-164


Articles   165-168

   • Shared care agreements — how to overcome the blank page [Text] [PDF (60K)] 165-166
   • Pharmacy in Lithuania: emerging from years of Soviet rule [Text] [PDF (110K)] 167-168


Book reviews [PDF (45K)]   169

   • Research methods in pharmacy practice [Text] 169
   • Practical exercises in pharmacy law and ethics [Text] 169
   • How to survive peer review [Text] 169
   • Patient care in community practice: a handbook of non-medicinal healthcare [Text] 169


Onlooker [Text] [PDF (50K)]   170

   Shining example / Ancestral habits / Vital spark 170


The Society [PDF (160K)]   171-174

   News
   • Society publishes expanded practice guidance on blood pressure monitoring [Text] 171
   • Congestion charge will affect visitors to Society's headquarters [Text] 171

   Pharmacy Information Pointers
   Preparation of chloroform water and peppermint water [Text] 172

   Medicines, Ethics and Practice
   February cumulative list of amendments [Text] 173

   Obituaries and tributes [Text] 173

   Official notices
   • Dates for 2003 registration exams [Text] 173
   • Statutory Committee decisions [Text] 173


Notice-board
   Branch meetings
   Future events
   Conferences
and more

Front Cover Picture
Our front cover picture illustrates this week’s news feature, in which Dawn Connelly looks into the effect that university top-up fees might have on pharmacy student numbers and, in the long run, on the profession of pharmacy itself

Reaction to OFT report
There is speculation that sufficient hostility from stakeholders may result in the Office of Fair Trading’s recommendation to abolish control of entry being over-ruled by the Department of Health. Since the OFT report’s publication, there have been some strong reactions: is it a “bombshell” for community pharmacy or is it the “best thing that could have happened?”
A cross-section of views is published in our Comment section this week (letters, reactions)
See also Leading article

Reducing doctors’ hours
A pilot scheme is being set up at Basildon Hospital in Essex to see how pharmacy staff might be able to help reduce junior doctors’ working hours, which are to be limited to 58 hours a week from August 2004

Doctors’ attitudes to pharmacists
Researchers from Birmingham have shown that hospital doctors value pharmacists’ work and would like pharmacists to play a greater role in their continuing education. Original paper (PDF 55K)