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Leading Article PDF (55K) 762
It is time to convince doctors of your worth 762
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Rosie Winterton, health minister, answered questions at the All-Party Pharmacy Group meeting held this week. The room was packed with representatives from all branches of the profession, including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the National Pharmaceutical Association, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, the Company Chemists' Association, the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists and various primary care trusts — to name but a few
News & Features 763-770
News summary 763-769
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Prescribing: new opportunities for all 770
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As the pharmacists on the first supplementary prescribing course near the end of their training, Clare Bellingham finds out how participants plan to use their new qualification
Products PDF (75K) 771
• Products Text 771
• Announcements Text 771
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 772
Clarity of nomenclature is needed for pharmacists who work in primary care 772
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By Rachell Mullen
What is a primary care pharmacist? That was the question that opened the primary care session at the British Pharmaceutical Conference earlier this year. A wide variety of job titles were offered, including pharmaceutical adviser and prescribing support pharmacist. Similarly, several different, and in some cases opposing, definitions were volunteered
Letters PDF (110K) 773-776
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Drug interaction alerts / Emollients / Tacrolimus / Dispensing / Community pharmacy / Hospital pharmacy / Packaging / Modernisation / Pharmacy contract
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 777-779
Recent articles
Alcohol misuse — a case study 777-779
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By Pamela Mason, PhD, MRPharmS
Research conducted this year by the charity Turning Point indicated that 3.8 million people in England and Wales (three million men and 800,000 women) are dependent on alcohol. This is six times as many people as are dependent on Class A drugs. The study also showed that every day 13 people die as a result of alcohol misuse. This case study looks at how pharmacists can help
Articles 780-785
National Reporting and Learning System series
Why the MHRA needs your help 780
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Dr Susanne Ludgate, medical director at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, explains why the agency has launched a strategy to encourage patients to report problems with medical devices direct to it and how pharmacists can help
Hows and whys of medication errors 781
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The National Patient Safety Agency will begin piloting root cause analysis (RCA) for pharmacy staff in England and Wales in January 2004. RCA is a technique that will enhance national and local learning from incident reporting. In the third of a series of articles, Wendy Harris, senior pharmacist at the NPSA, explains why RCA will be so important to pharmaceutical practice
An interaction between warfarin and COX-2 inhibitors: two case studies 782
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By Adrian Brown, MRPharmS, Caroline Bagley, MPharm, David Smith, MRPharmS,
and Vicky Caton, MPharmS
In this article, the authors describe two case studies that draw attention to an interaction between warfarin and
cyclo-oxygenase-2 selective inhibitors with potentially serious consequences
Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association: The role of the pharmacist in the prevention and management of HIV/AIDS 783-784
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This statement, which identifies ways in which pharmacists can be involved at the national and community level in the fight against HIV/AIDS, is the outcome of a symposium and workshops held at the recent Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association conference in Ocho Rios, Jamaica (PJ, 30 August, p272). It was launched earlier this week, to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December
Latest IJPP focuses on new pharmacy services in primary care 785
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Some of the research published in the December issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice is
highlighted by Joanna Lumb, managing editor, IJPP
Meetings and Conferences 786-791
Reports
Community Pharmacy Conference 786-789
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“Securing the future”, the first conference for community pharmacists organised by The Pharmaceutical Journal, was held
on 23 November in London. Conference chairman Annie Coppel, director of corporate governance and programme management at the National Prescribing Centre, asked the conference: “The future is bright: the question is are you ready to shine yet?”
Lin-Nam Wang and Clare Bellingham report
Pharmacy Education 790-791
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Pharmacists from community practice, hospitals, industry and academia as well as technicians, independent consultants, administrators and politicians participated in this one-day symposium to help inform the development of a strategy for pharmacy education. The symposium was organised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Academic Pharmacy Group, and held at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, London, on 17 November. Dr Joseph Chamberlain, former editor of The
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, reports
Onlooker PDF (75K) 792
Musical romantic Next week sees the bicentenary of the birth of the composer Hector Berlioz Text
Conspiracy to cheat In view of the publicity recently given to attempts of competing athletes to obtain an unfair advantage over others by taking drugs, particularly anabolic steroids, which they believe improve physical performance, it is disquieting to learn of new steroids that may, for a time at any rate, be undetectable Text
Food and genes A new science-based study called nutrigenomics has been created, to add to the many complications that arise whenever the sticky subject of genetic inheritance is raised Text
The Society PDF (360K) 793-798
Charter links and articles
News
• Festive season media campaign will promote pharmacists as health
experts Text 793
• Leicestershire and Rutland branch celebrates Diwali Text 793
• Society to host science conference Text 793
• Nine pharmacists designated as fellows of the Society Text 794
• Inspectors' presentations for preregistration trainees Text 797
Obituaries and tributes Text 794
How the library and information service helps pharmacists keep up to date 795
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This article, by staff of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Information Centre, describes ways in which the library and information service can help pharmacists keep their knowledge and skills up to date
Identification of foreign medicines 796
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The Society's information pharmacists have updated their list of internet sites for identifying foreign products from various countries, first published in 2001
Medicines, ethics and practice 797
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December cumulative list of amendments
Official notices 2001
to present
• New fellows Text 798
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 798
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 798
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 771
• Conferences Text 771
• Reunions Text |
Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) highlights
the views of Andrew Simms, policy director of the new economics foundation,
who discusses its
report ‘Ghost Town Britain’ and the effect
that the Office of Fair Trading recommendation could have on Britain’s
high streets. The image also reflects the coverage of the first
Journal conference for community pharmacists “Securing th future”
Supplementary prescribing
Pharmacists on the first supplementary prescribing courses will complete
their training in early 2004. In a news
feature, Clare Bellingham finds
out how participants plan to use their new qualification
See also
Meeting
report
Alcohol misuse
Research shows that 13 people die every day as a result of alcohol misuse.
A case study is presented in a continuing professional development
article, which looks at how pharmacists can help (PDF 100K)
Medical devices
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has launched
a strategy to encourage patients to report problems with medical
devices direct to it
HIV/AIDS
Ways in which pharmacists can be involved in the prevention and management
of HIV/AIDS are issued in a statement by the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical
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