The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 pp695-746 No 7353
11 June 2005

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Leading Articles PDF (45K)   696

Recipe for reclassification 696
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A self-limiting acute condition that can be treated with a single, effective medicine: such is the perfect recipe for reclassification of a medicine from a prescription-only product to a pharmacy product. Now, after many years of waiting and hoping, pharmacists and patients have been rewarded: the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has given the go-ahead for the treatment of conjunctivitis with over-the-counter chloramphenicol eye drops

NAWP — 100 years of fellowship 696
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Just over 100 years ago, women were only beginning to make their mark on the pharmacy profession. A handful of women had managed to qualify but, faced with a traditional male governing body and accepting the difficulty of attempting to join them, they launched out on their own and formed the Association of Women Pharmacists. Since renamed the National Association of Women Pharmacists, it celebrates its centenary, which coincides with the anniversary of the inaugural meeting, next week


News & Features   697-704

News summary, including R&D  697-703
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Antibiotic eye drops move POM to P 704
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This week, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency announced the reclassification of chloramphenicol eye drops from a prescription only to a pharmacy medicine. Harriet Adcock examines the issues raised by this important POM-to-P switch


POEMs    702
POEMs series

Chondroitin ineffective for pain relief in severe knee osteoarthritis 702
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Products PDF (80K)   705

• Products Text 705

• Drug tariff updates Text 705
    England and Wales NCSO

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 705
    Moxonidine


Broad Spectrum   706

Freedom for pharmacists: going independent might change the future 706
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By Malcolm E. Brown


Letters PDF (80K)  707-708 

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Practice research / Birdsgrove House / Adverse event reporting / The profession / The Society


Agenda for 2005   709
Agenda for 2005

A new environment for primary care 709
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In this article, Georgina Craig, of the Company Chemists’ Association, and Steve Feast, of the NHS Modernisation Agency, envision a new era for primary care where high street-style convenience, consumerism and competition between providers — and not policy — drive service development


Vision for pharmacy   710
Vision for pharmacy

Laying the groundwork for independent prescribing in paediatric oncology 710
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Supplementary prescribing, cancer care and children’s health are all high on the Government’s health agenda. Sue Marsh combines these by prescribing in the paediatric oncology clinic at a Coventry hospital. Dawn Connelly finds out how her role developed and what the future holds


Articles   711

June IJPP: cardiac rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS prevention in South Africa 711
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Research published in the June issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice is highlighted by Natalie Lane


Meetings   712-713
Reports

Aspects of the contract in the north east 712
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Association of the European Self-Medication Industry 713
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Onlooker PDF (100K)   714

A lesson in morality from a fascinating hedge climber In his book ‘On growth and form’ (1917) D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson produced what Peter Medawar hailed as “beyond comparison the finest work of literature in all the annals of science that have been recorded in the English tongue”. Most of the work relates to animal structure, but some plant considerations are included which gives rise to reflections on strange growth habits in the vegetable world Text

Early humans reached Britain lured by a mild climate Science for 22 April revealed some findings of a conference of palaeoanthropologists in Milwaukee, at which the participants discussed the early human settlement of Britain. Evidence derived from stone tools and bones of butchered animals shows that early man appeared in Britain more than 500,000 years ago Text

Hedge row herb with a misleading name Flourishing in the hedgerows in early summer is the ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea, which, despite its attribution both in English and in Latin, has not had the slightest relationship with the true ivy. A labiate, ground ivy goes by a vast number of local names, including alehoof, bird’s eye, creeping Jenny, fat hen, hen-and-chickens, monkey flowers and wandering Jew Text

Time to reflect and reconsider Text


The Society PDF (860K)   715-724

•  Hemant Patel elected President, Gerald Alexander Vice-President Text 715

•  Unified banking scheme for branch bank accounts Text 715

•  Society’s pharmacy leadership programme Text 715

•  Past presidents bow out with advice to new Council Text 716-717

•  Pharmacy needs greater autonomy in Scotland Text 717

•  MSP advises pharmacists to be proactive in their dealings with the Scottish Parliament Text 717

•  Funding for education research mini-projects Text 717

•  What the Government’s response to recommendations of the fourth report of the Shipman Inquiry means in practice PDF (60K) 718

•  Branch representatives' meeting PDF (120K) 719-722

Official notices 2001 to present
• Statutory Committee decisions Text 723

Obituaries & tributes Text 723


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   725-728
Recent articles

Conjunctivitis and chloramphenicol   725-728
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At last there will be an effective over-the-counter treatment for acute bacterial eye infections. Chloramphenicol eye drops were licensed for OTC sale this week and OTC packs are to become available in the next few months. In this article, Marvyn Elton looks at what pharmacists can now do for people with conjunctivitis


National Association of Women Pharmacists: centenary   729-746
www.nawp.org.uk

Journal celebrates 100 years of NAWP 729
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Including a message from the association's president

How women pharmacists struggled for recognition before 1905 730-732
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As a background to the formation of the National Association of Women Pharmacists in 1905, Marilyn Creese describes how women pharmacists won the right to become members of the Pharmaceutical Society

An event great with possibilities 733-736
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Public recognition of the professional person in the white coat or the smart suit is no longer dependent on gender and today no one questions the ability of women pharmacists to practise as competently as their male colleagues. In 1905, however, there were only 195 women pharmacists registered in Britain (1.2 per cent of the total Register) and the Association of Women Pharmacists was set up to look after the rights of this minority. In this article, Sue Symonds describes the inaugural and first public meeting of the association

Can the NAWP claim to be the first professional women’s association? 737
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What evidence is there that the National Association of Women Pharmacists is the UK’s earliest women’s professional body? Debbie Andalo investigates

Past attitudes to women in pharmacy 738-739
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Through a collage put together from the pages of the pharmaceutical press and archival material held by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Briony Hudson provides an insight to the attitudes that women pharmacists faced from 1872 to 1948

Activities of members after 1918 740-741
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In this article, Pam Mason describes the activities of the Association of Women Pharmacists from 1918, when it became known as the National Association of Women Pharmacists

Mum’s the word: taking a break / going back to work 742-746
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It has been suggested that women take an average of seven years off work, in total, to raise their families. In the first article Sarah Marshall looks at some of the issues pharmacists might face when they have children. In the second article, Sarah Marshall looks at returning to practice


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 724

• Society meetings Text 724
    Changes in practice (21 June)

• Future events Text 705

• Conferences Text

• Reunions Text


Awards Text

Charitable requests Text

Corrections Text 705
    Etanercept

Resources Text
  
Wants Text