The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 pp73-106 No 7283
24 January 2004

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Leading Articles PDF (40K)   74

“Knowing” is not “doing” 74
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There cannot be a pharmacist, doctor or nurse in the country who does not know that errors are made in the prescribing, supply or administration of medicines. What is more, avoiding errors does not require a degree in rocket science. Nevertheless, systems are not always put in place to avoid mistakes — despite guidance and warnings

Off the record 74
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One of this year's editorial innovations is an occasional series entitled Off the record. Readers are invited to contribute either 400- or 600-word items about some anecdotal aspect of pharmacy practice that they think is worth sharing


News & Features   75-82

News summary 75-79
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How medication errors can be avoided 80
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A new Department of Health report examines ways that medication errors can be avoided. Clare Bellingham reviews the report's recommendations

Shipman Inquiry: impact on pharmacy 81-82
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Last week, the Shipman Inquiry held a series of seminars that dealt with the arrangements for handling Controlled Drugs. The evidence heard gives some clues to the recommendations that will be made in the inquiry's final report, due to be published this summer. Clare Bellingham reports


Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2003   

Call for submissions to the Pharmaceutical Care Awards Text


Products PDF (65K)   83

• Products Text 83
• Announcements Text 83

• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Broad Spectrum   84

Do not let skill mix debate pass you by 84
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By Tanya Samuels and Karen Hassell


Letters PDF (140K)   85-87

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Prescription checking / Nomenclature / Training / Decision support / Dispensing errors / NHS branding / The Charter / Retention fee


Agenda for 2004   88-89

Agenda series

Studying the workforce — why a new academy has just been established 88-89
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By Peter Noyce


Vision for pharmacy   90
Vision for pharmacy

Coping with a large demand for CDs 90
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The Shipman Inquiry is currently examining the use and monitoring of Controlled Drugs in the community. Clare Bellingham finds out how one pharmacist in Aberdeen is using novel systems to deal with a high demand for Controlled Drugs


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   91-93
Recent articles

Measuring prescribing series

(3) Codes and systems used for reporting and sharing prescribing information   91-93
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Suzanne Jones, Susan Holdsworth and Helen Kendall describe the prescribing reports and information systems available in England. Other reporting systems exist in Scotland (eg, Scottish Prescribing Analysis) and Wales (eg, Prescribing Audit Reports and Catalogues)


Original papers   94-97

Would community pharmacists welcome electronic access to patients’ clinical data?  94-97
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By Marta Moody, BSc, MRPharmS, Denise Hansford, PhD, MRPharmS, Laura Blake, MPharm, Lynsay Brown, MPharm, Christopher Campbell, MPharm, Lewis Carr, MPharm, Karen Leitch, MPharm, and Emer O’Sullivan, MPharm
Aim — To ascertain community pharmacists' perceptions on issues arising from possible access to patients' biochemical and clinical data


Articles   98-99

Is there a solution to the pharmacist brain drain from poor to rich countries?   98-99
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Lloyd Matowe, Mahama Duwiejua and Pauline Norris say that emigration of health care professionals, including pharmacists, from developing to developed countries appears to be on the increase, and go on to suggest ways of decreasing the trend


Off the record   99
Off the record

Cut down by medication   99
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He was a visitor to my pharmacy only a few unpredictable times a year. His name was Mr Paradine. He was fiftyish and a human dynamo. One autumn, Mr Paradine got bronchitis


Onlooker PDF (90K)   100

Who owns old bones? There has been an ambivalent attitude to human skeletal remains for generations Text

Reversing the decline in chemistry teaching According to Sir Harry Kroto, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a research professor in the School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science of the University of Sussex, writing in the January issue of Chemistry World, the decline in the popularity of studying chemistry must be reversed if we value our future Text

Shades of Darwin debate in new war between religion and science An editorial article by Alan Leshner in Science for 28 November 2003 draws attention to the curious battle being waged, particularly in the United States, between ideology and religious doctrine on the one hand and scientific research on the other Text


The Society PDF (220K)   101-106

•  Career motivation Separate studies commissioned by the Society are looking at the career motivations of pharmacists and of pharmacy students, to help with forward planning for the profession Text 101

•  BPC 2004 research submissions Science and practice research submissions for this year's British Pharmaceutical Conference are now being invited Text 101

• Regulation of dispensing/pharmacy assistants More guidance on minimum competence requirement PDF (120K) 102-104

Official notices 2001 to present
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 105

Obituaries & tributes Text 105

Society meetings 106
• History of penicillin (4 February) Text 
• PK/PD data analysis (16-20 May) Text 


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text
• Society meetings Text 106
• Future events Text 83
• Conferences Text 83
• Reunions Text

Awards Text

• Pharmaceutical Care Awards 2003 Text
• Moss Pharmacy charitable trust awards Text 83

Resources Text

• Reductil programme Text 83

Wants Text

• NHS clinical trials group 83