The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 pp379-406 No 7343
2 April 2005

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Leading Articles PDF (40K)   380

Is April the cruellest month? 380
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Some pharmacists may be relieved that, although the new community pharmacy contracts in England and Wales came into effect on a Friday in April, it was the first day of the month and not a Friday the 13th. But there will be those who enjoy the irony of implementation on All Fools’ Day

Cast your vote before it is too late 380
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With just over a week to go before the election to the reconstituted Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society closes, time is running out for those who have not yet voted


News & Features   381-386

News summary  381-384
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Where do people go for health advice? 385
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A report published last week says that the number of people consulting pharmacists for health care advice over the past 10 years has decreased. Is this a cause for concern and will we see the shift reverse over the next decade? Dawn Connelly reports

Contract 2005
Contract 2005: what has changed in the updated regulations for England? 386
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Pharmacists who might be thinking about sitting down for a gentle read of the Regulations that brought in the new pharmacy contract on 1 April might want to think again. Michael Thompson finds that, at 130 pages, they are nearly four times as long as before, but contain few surprises


Products PDF (65K)   387

• Products Text 387

• Drug tariff updates Text

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Letters PDF (140K)  388-393 

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Anticoagulation services / RFID tagging / Repeat dispensing / Council election / PI insurance / Generics / Prescription charges / Medicines for children / The Society / CPD / The register / The Journal


Articles   394-397

How to apply the NHS leadership qualities framework to pharmacists 394-396
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In this article, a group of senior pharmacists in the north west of England describe how they applied the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework to their own personal development

New drug technologies
How new drug technologies might overcome toxicity from chemotherapy 397
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A new approach to cytotoxic drug delivery, which addresses problems of tumour resistance and drug toxicity, is the subject of the latest article in our new drug technologies series. Jenny Bryan reports


Meetings   398-399
Reports

British Pharmaceutical Students Association 398-399
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Onlooker PDF (65K)   400

Catching rabies from bats: a small risk but a real one It is noteworthy, comment three public health experts in the BMJ for 5 March, that until 2002 the UK was free from rabies while throughout the rest of the world some 70,000 deaths from the disease, half of them in children, occur each year. Hundreds of cases of the infection have been detected in bats in continental Europe, mainly in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France and Spain Text

Two hundredth anniversary of the strange master of the fairy-tale Two centuries ago, on 2 April 1805, Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, a city of some 5,000 in Denmark. His father, also Hans, was a cobbler with a vigorous imagination, his mother Ann Marie, with a passion for household tidiness but highly superstitious, was a washerwoman. Perhaps it is no wonder that young Hans showed from an early age a rather fantastic mental set towards the world Text

Doomed to be human Text


Community Pharmacists Group   insert
Community Pharmacists Group

March newsletter PDF (440K)


The Society PDF (380K)   401-406

•  Scottish Executive adopts public affairs plan for influencing politicians and opinion-formers Text 401

•  Welsh Executive seeks candidates for election Text 401

•  Society issues guidance on crushing buprenorphine sublingual tablets Text 401

Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 402
April 2005 amendments Text

•  Society hosts 10th Arden House European conference in London Text 402

•  Eight candidates contest Scottish Executive election Text 403

Statutory Committee Reports
• Striking-off for theft of medicines worth £26,000 Text 404
• Reprimand for supply of medicines obtained from questionable source Text 404

Official notices 2001 to present
• Welsh Executive election Text 405
• Hospital Pharmacists Group Committee election Text 405
• Council voting papers Text 405

Obituaries & tributes Text 406


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 406

• Society meetings Text 406
    BSHP foundation lecture — health care 1930–50 (13 April)

• Future events Text 387

• Conferences Text 387

• Reunions Text


Awards Text

Charitable requests Text

Corrections Text 387
    Durex recall

Resources Text

Wants Text 387
    Osteoarthritis research / German exchange