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Compulsion or consensus? 732
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This week’s publication of the White Paper on public health for England has drawn expected complaints from the usual suspects: “Nanny knows best!” proclaimed the Daily Mail on p1, with the accompanying comment: “It’s not just smoking. New health bill interferes in EVERY area of our lives.”
News & Features 733-740
News summary 733-738
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Choosing health – how pharmacists can help improve the
public’s health 739-740
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The White Paper on improving public health published this week acknowledges the important contribution that pharmacists can make. The draft pharmaceutical public health strategy provides an insight into pharmacists’ future role in this field. Hannah Pike reports
POEMs 736
POEMs series
Bupropion plus nicotine replacement no better than replacement alone 736
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Products PDF (50K) 741
• Products Text 741
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 742
Pharmacy hours of service provision may have unintended consequences 742
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By Bob Gartside
Letters PDF (100K) 743-748
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New contract / Apothecaries / Overseas members / Preoperative association / Boots the Chemists / Levothyroxine / Complementary medicine / Retention fee / Preregistration exam
Vision for pharmacy 749
Vision for pharmacy
How to recruit specialist pharmacists 749
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Recruiting pharmacists into specialist services can be difficult. Tom Moberly visited Peter Pratt, chief pharmacist at Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust, to learn about a programme he is running which may provide a novel solution to the problem
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 750-752
Recent articles
Fatty acids: which ones do we need? 750-752
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Some fatty acids are widely promoted for good health. In this article, Pam Mason explores some of the evidence for their benefits
Articles 753-759
How computerised education on
prescribing can help junior doctors 753-754
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In this article, Gail Richardson, Michael McConnell, Helen Barclay, Dawn Farmer, Sandra Wood and Hazel Scott describe the development of a new approach to training junior medical staff on prescribing and other medicines-related issues
Graduate technician training scheme 755-756
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In this article Ann Jacklin, Ann Mounsey and Sue Newton describe how the development of a training scheme solved technician recruitment problems at a hospital trust in London
What pharmacists really need to
know about pharmacogenomics 756
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Paul Long explains why pharmacogenomics will become an increasingly important science in the future
Delivering pharmaceutical care in the Netherlands: practice and challenges 757-759
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In this article, Meindert Boysen, describes pharmaceutical care in the Netherlands
Meetings 760-761
Reports
Pharmacy Australia Congress 760-761
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Onlooker PDF (80K) 762
Sweet smell of success Our modern sense of smell is sadly deficient, thanks to factors in our culture that confuse and much restrict it Text
Call for caution in the drug treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Even the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children is considered difficult, and its treatment with stimulant drugs is even more controversial. In the BMJ for 16 October, David Coghill, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Dundee, and Harvey Marcovitch, a paediatrician from Oxford, have examined the choice which doctors are offered between prescribing stimulants for this condition or erring on the side of caution by avoiding them Text
Tackling the antibiotic resistance dilemma A commentary in Nature for 21 October by Carl Nathan of Cornell University discusses the fact that, despite growing resistance of bacteria to existing drugs, the pharmaceutical industry’s research into developing new antibiotics is in steep decline Text
The Society PDF (380K) 763-770
• Society launches online payment system for 2005 retention fees Text 763
• Scottish Pharmacy Conference concentrates on putting patients
first Text 763
• Savings of up to 40 per cent on BPC 2005 fees Text 764
Treasures of the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society’s Collections series
• The Society’s mace Text 764
Statutory Committee Reports
• Overpayment claims of £12,000 lead to striking off Text 765
• Name of man struck off for Controlled Drug offences is restored at
third application Text 765
• Error in dispensing medicine for epileptic child leads to reprimand Text 766
• Restoration for man convicted of deception Text 766
• Restoration after conviction for conspiracy Text 766
• Lies over lumpy ointment lead to striking-off orders for two London
pharmacists Text 767
• Striking-off and reprimands for stock irregularities Text 768
Obituaries & tributes Text 769
Official notices 2001
to present
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 769
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• Branch meetings Text 770
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Awards Text
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Corrections Text 741
Sultan Dajani / Safety awards
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Pain and pyrexia guide / Neuroendocrine tumours / Hepatitis
C / Swallowing difficulties / Motoring and medicines
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