The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 pp439-476 No 7345
16 April 2005

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Leading Article PDF (45K)   440

New Council — new era 440
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Congratulations to the newly elected members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council! Of the 14 unreserved places, 13 have been won by declared supporters of the Save Our Society campaign. It is a major achievement. No doubt the losers — including two past presidents — will be wondering what went wrong for them and what reasons lie behind the fact that no long-serving members except Hemant Patel were successful in their bid to join the reconstituted Council


News & Features   441-448

News summary  441-446
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Contract 2005
Taking a different perspective: what PCOs think about the new contract 447-448
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How are primary care organisations coping with the implementation of the new community pharmacy contract? Clare Bellingham finds out


POEMs    446
POEMs series

Familial risk of type 1 diabetes among siblings 446
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Products PDF (55K)   449

• Announcements Text 449
• Products Text 449

• Drug tariff updates Text

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 449


Letters PDF (90K)  450-453 

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General election / EU services directive / Repeat dispensing / Community pharmacy / New contract / Charge refunds / Technicians / Antipsychotics / Methadone / The profession / Registration


Original papers   454-457

Role and uptake of local pharmaceutical services contracts in commissioning community pharmacy services 454-457
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By Juliette Kendall, Bonnie Sibbald, Darren Ashcroft, Fay Bradley, Rebecca Elvey, Karen Hassell and Peter Noyce
Aim —To describe the early development and uptake of local pharmaceutical services and to investigate the nature of the contracts developed by the first-wave pilots.


Meetings   458-459
Reports

Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group 458-459
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Onlooker PDF (80K)   460

Wild flowers under threat I was recently alarmed by a report published by the charity Plantlife International that changes in the environment are posing a threat to wild flowers in the West Country. On the evidence of some 3,000 reports sent in by experts and volunteers many plant species familiar to us for years are proving vulnerable and showing a reduction in numbers Text

Using one pollutant to remove another One of the serious problems of modern industrial development is that of dealing with by-products in such a way as to avoid doing harm to the environment and endangering plant and animal life Text

More trouble from Indonesia as archaeologists argue over Homo floriensis There seems to be no end to the battle between archaeologists and anthropologists over the remains of Homo floriensis that was unearthed in Indonesia recently. His bones, reckoned to be 18,000 years old, were discovered on the island of Flores by a team from an Australian university led by Michael Morwood, but transferred to the laboratory of the Indonesian palaeoanthropologist, Teuku Jacob, who wished to examine them in advance of other experts. There were rather unpleasant repercussions of this act, and disturbing facts have been revealed Text

Ex Oriente lux Text


The Society PDF (570K)   261-276

•  A new Council for a new era Text 461

•  Lay members of the new Council to be announced shortly Text 461

•  April Council meeting: attendance and guests Text 462

    • Registrar strikes 870 pharmacists from the Register for non-payment of retention fees Text 462
    • Practice Committee to consider standardisation of prescription month Text 462
    • New pension fund trustee structure Text 462
    • CHRE should consider claiming Section 29 referral costs on a case-by-case basis Text 463
    • Charter litigation Text 463
    • Amendments to schedules of examination regulations Text 463
    • BRM motions Text 463
    • Code of Ethics amendment on co-operation with investigations and inquiries, and on voluntary undertakings to Statutory Committee Text 464
    • Council agrees to publish guidance for pharmacists on “whistle-blowing” Text 464
    • Pharmaceutical industry Text 464
    • Council approves plans for consultation on national board proposals Text 465
    • Reciprocal registration will end in 2006 Text 465

•  Information sheet on women in pharmacy Text 465

Statutory Committee Reports
• Striking-off ordered for theft of tubes of moisturiser Text 466
• Three reprimands for poor practices in the manufacture of “specials” Text 466
• Reprimand for pharmacist who made dispensing error and denied it Text 467
• Restoration refused after second attempt to deceive the Society Text 467
• £52,000 PPA overpayment leads to striking-off order Text 468
• Pharmacist reprimanded for his deliberate decision not to honour a locum booking Text 468

Pharmacy information pointers
•  The preparation of menthol (1 per cent w/w) in aqueous cream BP Text 469

Official notices 2001 to present
• Council election 2005 Text 470
• Erasures from Register for non-payment of fees Text 470-475
• Statutory Committee decisions Text 475
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text extra

Obituaries & tributes Text 475


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 476

• Society meetings Text 475
    Wessex regional conference (April 24)
    Symposium on the impact of the EU clinical trials directive (May 19)

• Future events Text 449

• Conferences Text

• Reunions Text 449
    Portsmouth 1984


Awards Text 449
    Health Foundation awards

Charitable requests Text

Corrections Text 449
    MRSA colonisation

Resources Text 449
    Insomnia / Mental health / Gout / Welsh prescription charge

Wants Text