The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 pp107-140 No 7284
31 January 2004

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Leading Articles PDF (40K)   108

Scotland in limelight again 108
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Once again, Scotland is stealing the pharmacy limelight and has successfully rolled out its minor ailment service to 176 community pharmacies

Lawyers bound to benefit 108
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Now that the Save Our Society group is seeking leave for a judicial review into the process adopted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council in petitioning for a new Charter, all members of the Society need to ask themselves some questions. Here are a few for starters


News & Features   109-116

News summary 109-114
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How the minor ailments service works 115-116
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Offering a minor ailments service will become a key role for community pharmacists in Scotland in the not too distant future. A pilot service is now being run in 176 pharmacies. Clare Bellingham reports on its progress


Products PDF (60K)   117

• Products Text 117
• Announcements Text 117

• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Broad Spectrum   118

Why developed countries should pay transfer fees for pharmacists 118
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By Hemant Patel


Letters PDF (80K)   119-121

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Decision support / Compliance / CD regulations / Dispensing / Pharmacy assistants / Packaging / Alcohol metabolism / Capacity planning / Reciprocity / The Charter


Agenda for 2004   122

Agenda series

Integrating pharmaceutical services into out-of-hours primary care 122
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By John Jolley


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   123-125
Recent articles

Measuring prescribing series

(4) Examples of how to use PACT reports  123-125
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In this final article in our series on measuring prescribing, Suzanne Jones and Helen Kendall describe the information available in PACT reports and catalogues and show how it can be used to change prescribing practices for the better


Original papers   126-129

An evaluation of a hospital-based patient medicines information helpline  126-129
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By Angeline Joseph, Bryony Dean Franklin and Delyth James
Aim — To determine patient satisfaction with a medicines information telephone helpline and assess the service’s impact on patient outcomes


Articles   130

Integrating practice and science is central to new course at East Anglia  130
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Pharmacy students at the University of East Anglia have now completed their first semester of teaching. Dawn Connelly visited the school to find out what is different about the course and whether all is going to plan


Reviews PDF (55K)   131

• The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust 2003 prescribing guidelines edited by David Taylor, Carol Paton and Robert Kerwin Text

• Practical chemotherapy: a multidisciplinary guide by Maxwell Summerhayes and Susanna Daniels Text

• Handbook of pharmaceutical excipients edited by Raymond C. Rowe, Paul J. Sheskey and Paul J. Weller Text


Onlooker PDF (120K)   132

Stonehenge lichen puzzle Lichens are fascinating plants, once you start to look into their habits. For one thing, they show a wide distribution of habitats, being classified as arboreal, terricolous, saxicolous and omnicolous, according to whether they thrive on trees, earth, rocks or all of these Text

Professional priorities examined In Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) Lord Darlington comments that “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” And in a more savage mood, Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911) defines a cynic as “A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.” Text

Strengthening health systems for the future The 2003 report from the World Health Organization indicates a change of emphasis from previous reports, and is the subject of an editorial article by Gill Walt, professor of international health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, published in the BMJ Text

Useless wit “Overmuch quickness of wit, either given by nature or sharpened by study, doth not commonly bring forth either greatest learning...” Text


The Society PDF (280K)   133-140

•  Society’s directorates The Society’s branch and regional secretaries are being invited to a special meeting to learn more about the organisation’s new staff structure Text 133

•  Scottish Department website The Society’s Scottish Department has launched a new website giving detailed information about the department and its activities Text 133

Pharmacy support staff
•  Regulation of support staff Pharmacists in Wales have been learning about the Society’s plans for regulating support staff Text 134

•  Privy Council approves request to end disclosure of members' addresses The disclosure of pharmacists' full addresses in the printed Annual Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists is to end Text 134

•  New e-mail addresses introduced for the Society's staff The addresses now use a forename rather than an initial and they no longer end in “.uk” Text 134

Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
• Child-resistant closures Text 134

•  Society structures A report summarises the key issues raised in the recent consultation on structures to support the Council of the future Text   PDF (70K) 135-137

Obituaries & tributes Text 138

Society meetings Text 139-140
• History of penicillin (4 February)
• Validation of bioanalytical procedures for large molecules (12-13 February)  
• PK/PD data analysis (16-20 May)  


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 140
• Society meetings Text 139-140
• Future events Text 117
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text


Awards Text


Resources Text

• Constipation booklet A training booklet aimed at pharmacy assistants entitled 'An introduction to constipation', sponsored by Califig has been awarded the National Pharmaceutical Association's training seal Text 117


Wants Text