The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 pp709-730 No 7379
10 December 2005

The Pharmaceutical Journal, 10 December 2005

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Christmas page including closures

 

THE SOCIETY
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Leading Articles PDF (20K)   710

There's a hole in my budget 710
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It is hard not to be cynical about the state of the NHS

Attracting young people to pharmacy 710
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Jane Kennedy, the minister with responsibility for pharmacy in England, has welcomed the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's careers campaign


News & Features   711-716

News summary, including R&D news  711-716
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Products PDF (30K)   717

• Announcements Text 717
• Products Text 717

• Drug tariff updates Text 717

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 717
    FemSeven products


Letters PDF (40K)  718-719 

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Specials / Safety / The profession / Controlled drugs


Articles   720-725

The MHRA medicines testing scheme: working to protect the public 720-723
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In this article, Andrew Charvill, Ged Lee and Gerald Heddell describe the surveillance and analysis of medicinal products in the UK

Legal digests
Dismissal of Christian employees who refuse Sunday work is not always unfair 724-725
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This is the third article in our series of law digests by Thomas H. John, pharmacist and barrister, of cases heard recently in the appeal courts of England and Wales. In this article, Mr John discusses the freedom to express one's religious beliefs within the working environment


Prescribing & Medicines Management PDF (310K)   insert
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Focus on prescribing science will grow PM1
In this article, Hugh McGavock, visiting professor at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, explains why prescribing science is important
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Supplementary prescribing one year on PM2
Fiona Reid, primary care pharmacist for cardiovascular disease, describes her year with a hypertension and cardiovascular risk reduction clinic
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Learning from practice experiences PM3
In this article, Nina Barnett, specialist pharmacist for older people, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, and Jane Nicholls, project lead, London Pharmacy Supplementary Prescribing Team, describe a two-year-old supplementary prescribing service for older people in Harrow
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Contributing to a QOF assessment PM4
In August 2004, the medicines management team at Central Liverpool Primary Care Trust was faced with the challenge of contributing to the PCT's first annual Quality and Outcomes Framework assessment and review. Rachel Mullen, practice pharmacist, and Janet Decamp, deputy director of medicines management, both at Central Liverpool PCT, report
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Onlooker PDF (60K)   726

Tracking noodles across the centuries We usually think of noodles as one of our fast-food constituents, but it appears that they are by no means a modern invention Text

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? When in 1820, in his “Ode on a Grecian urn”, John Keats wrote “What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?” he could never have imagined what those words might signify two centuries later, in a world where greed and fanaticism had come to rule many human affairs Text

Poisoning the planet My attention has been drawn to some recent alarming reports of people using toxic compounds indiscriminately to deal with what they regard as threats to their livelihood Text

Nature and the unnatural in conflict / Self-restraint among physicians Text


The Society PDF (240K)   727-730

•  Minister backs careers campaign Text 727

•  New date for preregistration talk by inspector in Plymouth Text 727

•  New Society books provide introduction to sports medicine and IT Text 727

Statutory Committee Reports
• Striking-off ordered for would-be cocaine smuggler Text 728
• No penalty for dispensing medicines wrongly ordered by GP surgery Text 728
• Reprimand for persistent failure to dispose of pharmaceutical waste Text 729

Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
• Occupational health schemes Text 729

Official notices 2001 to present
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text  730

Obituaries & tributes Text 730


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 730

• Society meetings Text

• Future events Text 717

• Conferences Text

• Reunions Text


Awards Text

Charitable requests Text

Corrections & clarifications Text 717
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Resources Text 717
     Medicines management / Diabetes

Wants Text

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