The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 pp731-762 No 7380
17 December 2005

The Pharmaceutical Journal, 17 December 2005

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Leading article
News
News feature
POEMs
Products

COMMENT
Broad spectrum
Letters

Special feature (Specials manufacturing units)

Articles
Onlooker

CPD
Disability Discrimination Act


Christmas page including closures

 

THE SOCIETY
December Council meeting
Law and ethics
News
Official notices
Obituaries & tributes
Branch/Society meetings

DIARY
Future events
Reunions

Awards, grants
Charitable requests
Corrections
Resources
Wants

Jobs and Classified advertising

 

 


Leading Article PDF (20K)   732

One step at a time 732
Text  
Less than two months ago, The Journal commented on the forthcoming relaxation of the legislation covering personal supervision in the Health Bill currently going through Parliament, saying that the strict need for a pharmacist always to be on the pharmacy premises was “ending with a whimper”


News & Features   733-740

News summary  733-738
Text   PDF (170K)

Implementing Contract 2005
New contract: monitoring progress 739-740
PDF (70K)
In the last in our series of articles following pharmacists as they implement the new community pharmacy contract in England, Tom Moberly looks at how they have coped since the beginning of full implementation in October and how the introduction of monitoring has panned out


POEMs    736
POEMs series

All PPIs are equivalent for treatment of GORD 736
Text   PDF (35K)


Products PDF (30K)   741

• Announcements Text 741
• Products Text 741

• Drug tariff updates Text

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Broad Spectrum   742

What can pharmacy learn from the approach taken by accountancy to CPD? 742
Text   PDF (30K)
By Sara Barrow


Special feature   743-746

Why specials manufacturing units are needed now as much as they ever were 743-746
PDF (70K)
In this special feature, Zoë Gross provides an update on specials, in terms of their clinical and technical aspects, addresses what is going on in practice and looks at some recent and future developments


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   747-750
Recent articles

Disability Discrimination Act
Disability Discrimination Act   747-750
PDF (70K)
In this article, Karen Rosenbloom, Ruth Wakeman and Pippa Scrimshaw explain what help and support pharmacists should give to people with disabilities when providing pharmacy services, in order to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995


Letters PDF (40K)  751-752 

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Connecting for health / Packaging / Preregistration payments / Other professions / The Guild / Pharmacy monitoring / Internet eye drops / Preregistration training / The Journal


Articles   753

Community focus in December IJPP 753
Text   PDF (30K)
Research published in the December issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice is highlighted by Natalie Lane

Onlooker PDF (50K)   754

Neuroscientists find common ground with traditions embracing contemplation When the Society for Neuroscience in the US recently invited the Dalai Lama to address its annual meeting in Washington there was considerable controversy Text

A plant with a rich historical background The name silphium has been applied in antiquity, and in more recent times, to a number of different plants, both umbellifers and composites Text

Some maternal attachments may be highly insecure Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Münchhausen (1729–97) has given his name to a curious syndrome attached to patients who make a habit of travelling from one hospital to another telling untruths about their sufferings and even undergoing unnecessary surgical operations when they are taken seriously Text


The Society PDF (310K)   755-762

•  December Council meeting: attendance and guests Text 755

    • Council agrees new guidance on supervision during consultations Text 755
    • Go-ahead for plan to remove Council attendance fee ceiling Text 756
    • Logo will help public identify genuine pharmacy websites Text 756
    • Protocol approved for relationships between the Society's national pharmacy boards and the Council Text 757
    • Council agrees composition of national boards for Scotland and Wales Text 757
    • Professional discretion advised in reporting sexual activity in children Text 758
    • Council agrees plan for communications review Text 758
    • Council approves procedure for the overseas accreditation of foreign pharmacy qualifications Text 759
    • Council agrees education policy programme Text 759
    • BPC science award Text 759
    • Confidential business Text 759
    • Concern over extemporaneous preparation of methadone oral solution Text 760
    • BPC to have a practice chairman from 2006 Text 760
    • Infringements Committee to end anonymity of cases Text 760

Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
• Interim guidance for pharmacist supervision and private consultation areas Text 756
• Guidance on reporting sexual activity in children under 13 years Text 758

•  Society names members of appointments group Text 761

•  Four more pharmacists are designated as fellows of the Society Text 761

•  More members switch to online fee payment Text 761

•  New fifth edition of excipients handbook Text 761

Official notices 2001 to present
• New fellows Text  762

Obituaries & tributes Text 762


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text

• Society meetings Text 762
    Symposium: Small-scale manufacturing (7 February 2006)
    Residential course: Stability testing (13 February 2006)
    Symposium: Pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines (26 April 2006)

• Future events Text

• Conferences Text

• Reunions Text


Awards Text 741
    ABPI awards

Charitable requests Text

Corrections & clarifications Text
 
Resources Text 741
    Funding / Medicines use reviews

Wants Text

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