The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 pp265-302 No 7289
6 March 2004

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Leading Articles PDF (45K)   266

Let us sit at the top table 266
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Pharmacists in England have an unrivalled opportunity to make their mark with the Government and the general public over the contribution they make to public health currently and the greater contribution they could make in the future

Why are we waiting? 266
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Rosie Winterton is a lucky woman. Invited to address the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee's annual dinner earlier this week, she said little of significance. There were no announcements and no answers to the questions on control of entry or the new contract. As a result, she was given a lukewarm reception


News & Features   267-276

News summary 267-273
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Opportunities for pharmacy implicit in latest Wanless report on public health 274
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Naomi Kempner reports on the part pharmacists can play in improving the country's health as envisaged in the Wanless report published last week

Smoking cessation can be used as service delivery model for pharmacy 275-276
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Helping people stop smoking was identified as a key role for public health workers in last week’s Wanless report. Harriet Adcock examines pharmacy’s contribution to this important area in the run up to National No Smoking Day on 10 March


Products PDF (75K)   277

• Products Text 277
• Announcements Text 277

• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Letters PDF (100K)   278-282

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Thalidomide / Retention fee / Community pharmacy / Which? report / CPD / Ramipril / Canesten Combi / Careers supplement / The Journal


Agenda for 2004   283-285
Agenda for 2004

Why we need a defined career structure in place of informal progression 283
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By Ian Bates, Duncan McRobbie, Graham Davies and David Webb

Opportunities for pharmacists: the Quality and Outcomes Framework 284-285
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In the second of four consecutive articles, Sue Carter, head of prescribing and pharmacy, Adur, Arun and Worthing Teaching Primary Care Trust, gives her view on aspects of the new general medical services contract Quality and Outcomes Framework of relevance to pharmacists


Vision for pharmacy   286
Vision for pharmacy

Smoking cessation voucher scheme involves the whole pharmacy team 286
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The Department of Health's "Vision for pharmacy" document comments that people are increasingly looking to their local pharmacist for advice on stopping smoking. Recent developments in Manchester illustrate how the profession is responding to this demand. Joanna Lumb reports


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   287-289
Recent articles

Peri-operative medication series

Medication in the peri-operative period  287-289
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In the first article in a series on peri-operative medication, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie give a general overview of the concepts relating to this area of drug therapy, including guidance on which drugs should be continued and which considered for discontinuation


Original papers   290-293

Continuing professional development for employee pharmacists: a survey to compare practice in the hospital and community sectors 290-293
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By Dawn Swainson and Jonathan Silcock
Aim — To provide managers with better information about current CPD practice and employees’ views about the help that they will need in the future


Meetings   294-295
Reports

National Patient Safety Agency 294-295
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Christine Clark reports from a meeting at which participants were told that hospital trusts should take on the challenge of designing for safety


Onlooker PDF (65K)   296

An ethics lesson from a remarkable man At last Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, the third and final film in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘The lord of the rings’ won 11 awards. I am reminded that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a truly remarkable man. Born in Bloemfontein but educated in Birmingham and Oxford, he became a professor of Anglo-Saxon and created a wonder-world of mythology and language Text

Importance of trust between individuals in a smooth-running society Immersed in our busy lives, we tend to overlook the fundamental truth that the smooth functioning of human society depends upon the element of trust between individuals. This is what John Locke in the 17th century called “the social contract”. And later Benjamin Disraeli asserted that “all power is a trust” Text

Nations should be partners in science, says UN secretary general In the 13 February issue of Science, the secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has written an editorial drawing attention to the need to extend to all nations the capacity to undertake science and technology Text


The Society PDF (300K)   297-302

•  Scottish Labour conference The Society’s Scottish Department has taken the pharmacy message to the Scottish Labour Party conference Text 297

•  Society’s new directorates Representatives of the Society’s branches and regions are to attend a meeting to learn more about the Society’s new directorates Text 297

•  Supplementary prescribing Submissions are being invited for research funding to support an investigation into supplementary prescribing by pharmacists Text 298

•  Scottish newsletter A newsletter has been launched for Society members in Scotland Text 298

•  Media campaign on smoking A media campaign is highlighting pharmacists’ role in helping smokers to quit Text 299

Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 299
March 2004 amendments Text

Society meetings
•  Analytical validation and regulatory issues (9-11 June) Text 300

Obituaries & tributes Text 300-301

Official notices 2001 to present
• Council election 2004 Text 301
• Hospital Pharmacists Group Committee election 2004 Text 301
• Industrial Pharmacists' Group Committee Election 2004 Text 301
• Scottish Department Executive election 2004 Text 301
• Statutory Committee decisions Text 301


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 302
• Society meetings Text 300
• Future events Text
• Conferences Text
• Reunions Text


Awards Text

Corrections Text

• Roadshow information 277
• Handwritten prescriptions 277


Reunions Text

Resources Text

Wants Text