The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 pp337-366 No 7291
20 March 2004

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COMMENT:

Leading Articles PDF (45K)   338

Let your hook always be cast 338
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Those pharmacists who have read the four articles we have now published about opportunities in the new general medical services contract should have a clearer idea of the way the Government's mind has been working. The emphasis is, explicitly and implicitly, on chronic disease management. And because so much of successful chronic disease management is medicine-based, there are opportunities for pharmacists to plug the gaps that GPs will not be able to fill themselves


News & Features   339-345

News summary 339-344
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Give students a better deal for health 345
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There are opportunities for community pharmacist in the health care of Britain's student population. Fawz Farhan finds out what they are


Products PDF (110K)   346-347

• Products Text 346-347
• Announcements Text 347

• Drug tariff updates Text 347
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Letters PDF (70K)   348-349

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Community pharmacy / Obesity / Prescription fraud / ADR reporting / Careers supplement


Agenda for 2004   350-351
Agenda for 2004

Medicines management: opportunities for pharmacists in new GMS contract 350-351
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In the last article of the series, Sue Carter, head of prescribing and pharmacy, Adur, Arun and Worthing Teaching Primary Care Trust, gives her view on medicines management issues, including medication review and repeat prescribing


Off the record   351
Off the record

Time for a radical shake-up  351
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My father, who was a schoolteacher, used to say: “Those who can — do, and those who can’t — teach.” I have heard various modifications to this quip, such as adding “... and those who can’t teach — manage”. A more appropriate addition for the pharmaceutical industry would be “... and those who can’t do — regulate”


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   352-354
Recent articles

Peri-operative medication series

Peri-operative medication in patients with cardiovascular disease  352-354
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In this article, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie look at care of patients with cardiovascular disease who are to undergo a surgical procedure


Articles   355-357

Pharmacy services at the Glastonbury Festival: come along and join the party 355-357
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Tony Guest, Jim Hutchins, Lucy Philpott, Sue Beveridge, Sally Tothill and Louise Flower describe the Glastonbury pharmacy experience


Meetings   358-361
Reports

International phytopharmacology 358-359
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Michael Heinrich, professor of pharmacognosy, University of London reports from an international phytopharmacology meeting

Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group 360-361
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A recent international conference in London considered progress towards regulatory guidance for validation of analytical methods for the quantitation of macromolecules in biological fluids, for assessment of antibodies and for validation of biomarker assays. Howard Hill reports


Onlooker PDF (75K)   362

How fishing quotas affect the bird life of the oceans The discarding of an increasing proportion of fishing catches in order to meet the requirements of landing quotas is having strange effects on the bird life of the oceans, according to a paper published in Nature Text

Grim legacy of US army's chemical weapons A report published in the March issue of Chemistry World draws attention to another issued by the US National Academies’ National Research Council regarding vast stockpiles of chemical weapons in the US. They have been stored in eight military depots for some 50 years, and no one is sure how far they have degraded and whether they constitute a hazard to surrounding communities Text

Policy makers are failing to meet public health challenges An editorial in The Lancet for 6 March laments what it calls “the catastrophic failures of public health” Text

There's work and work “Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other matter; second, telling other people to do so...” Text


Prescribing & Medicines Management PDF (100K)   insert
Back issues

Pharmacists and GPs work together to support benzodiazepine withdrawal PM1
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Many patients want to stop taking benzodiazepines. Debbie Andalo finds out how they can be helped

Minor ailments scheme now involves over a third of Sheffield's pharmacists PM2
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A community pharmacy minor ailments scheme in Sheffield is widening as increasing numbers of GPs opt in to the project and patients attest to its value. Naomi Kempner reports

What should pharmacists expect to be paid for medicines management? PM3
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The new general medical services contract could mean community pharmacists become more involved in medicines management work. But what remuneration should they receive? Dawn Connelly finds out

New avenues for technicians to explore PM4
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Opportunities for pharmacy technicians in pmnary care have increased in recent years, Debbie Andalo reports


The Society PDF (150K)   363-366

•  Omeprazole practice guidance The Society has published practice guidance on over-the-counter omeprazole Text 363

•  VPG weekend conference The Veterinary Pharmacists’ Group is heading for Stratford-upon-Avon for its 2004 weekend conference Text 363

•  New directorate structure More than 60 branch and regional representatives attended a meeting to learn about the Society’s new directorate structure Text 363

•  APG committee election Nominations are being sought in the triennial election to the Academic Pharmacy Group Committee Text 364

•  Children’s medicine conference The Society is to co-host a conference on children’s medicine Text 364

•  Pharmacy history film A short pharmacy history film is now on sale to the public Text 364

Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
• Change of drug names from BANs to rINNs Text 364

Obituaries & tributes Text 365

Official notices 2001 to present
• Academic Pharmacy Group Committee election 2004 Text 365-366
• AMENDED Industrial Pharmacists' Group Committee Election 2004 Text 366


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 366

• Society meetings Text 365
   Veterinary Pharmacists' Group annual conference (8-9 May)
   Good medicine for children (18 May)

• Future events Text 346

• Conferences Text
   FIP's 64th congress (4-9 September)

• Reunions Text 347
   Welsh pharmacy school


Awards Text

Corrections Text
• 'Veterinary pharmacy' 347
• Complaints 347

Reunions Text
• Welsh pharmacy school 347

Resources Text

Wants Text