The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp33-62 No 7408
8 July 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   34

PJ   2006;277:34
PDF (20K)

No time for complacency 34
Our latest batch of Pharmaceutical Care Award finalists revealed one interesting development: supplementary prescribing pharmacists are beginning to make a significant impact. Of the four runners-up and three winners for the 2005 awards presented last week at Apothecaries’ Hall in London, no fewer than four teams had a supplementary prescriber at the heart of their work
PJ   2006;277:34
Full Text

News   35-41

News summary  35-41
PJ   2006;277:35-41
Headlines   PDF (150K)

Lead stories
-Central role in primary care remains a long way off
-Latest chlamydia figures reveal 5 pc increase in UK
-Pharmacists have a significant role to play in PBC
-Flu vaccine delay expected, so prioritise patients
-Italy falls foul of European pharmacy ownership law
-Small weight loss achieved aftre switching to long-acting insulin
-Fortnightly cetuximab an option for coloc cancer

POEMs   40

POEMs series

Omega 3 fats do not affect mortality 40
PJ   2006;277:40
Full Text   PDF (20K)

Products   42

PJ   2006;277:42
PDF (30K)

Products   42
-New medicines
-Prescription products
-SPC changes
-Products miscellany
PJ   2006;277:42
Full Text

Announcements   42
-APTUK
PJ   2006;277:42
Full Text

Pharmaceutical Care Awards   43-46

Pharmaceutical Care Awards

PJ   2006;277:43-46
PDF (150K)

-Redrawing borders between professions
-Pharmacy teams can benefit people with asthma
-Pharmacist supplementary prescribing improves the care of cancer patients...
-...and that of patients with type-2 diabetes
-Holistic approach to health care brings success
-Patients empowered by pharmacist asthma clinic
-Test, treat and trace pharmacy chlamydia service
-Pharmacist-led diabetes clinic effective and popular

Broad Spectrum   47

Balancing work and training: who said being a preregistration tutor is easy? 47
By Aamer Safdar, Shirey Ip and Angela Gass
PJ   2006;277:47
Full Text   PDF (30K)

Letters   48

-Control of entry
-Controlled Drugs
-Medicines use review
-Homoeopathy
PJ   2006;277:48
Full Text   PDF (30K)

Agenda for 2006   49

Agenda for 2006

Where next for POM to P? Is self care the future for ill health prevention  49
Steve Mann, of Mann Healthcare Ltd, was the pharmaceutical physician who led the switch from prescription-only medicine to pharmacy medicine of the first statin - simvastatin. Here he offers a personal view on one future direction for POM-to-P switching
PJ   2006;277:49
Full Text   PDF (30K)

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   53

Recent articles

Genetics
Genetics, health and medicine  53-56
Advances in genetics are driving a revolution in health care, promising greater understanding of disease, superior tools for prevention and diagnosis, and novel treatments. No-one can afford to ignore genetics. In this article, Philippa Brice and Simon Sanderson outline essential knowledge for pharmacists, and consider the immediate and possible long-term impact of genetics on health
PJ   2006;277:53-56
Full Text   PDF (80K)

CPD diary
Pharmacy training specialist: putting learning into practice  56
Helen Middleton is a continuing professional development manager and training specialist at London Pharmacy Education and Training (LPE&T). She is responsible for developing and delivering a strategy to support CPD implementation in pharmacy departments in NHS organisations across London, Hertfordshire and Essex, and developing and delivering study days on the LPE&T annual programme
PJ   2006;277:56
Full Text   PDF (30K)

Meetings   50-52, 57

Reports index

Academy of Pharmaceutical Science
Paediatric inhalation products - an unmet challenge for the industry 50-51
Academics, industrialists and regulators met at a workshop recently to discuss unmet needs and the regulatory framework in the rapidly developing field of paediatric inhalation technology. Joseph Chamberlain reports
PJ   2006;277:50-51
Full Text   PDF (40K)

HIV Pharmacy Association
HIV patients with renal complications 52
At a recent conference, participants heard about HIV-associated nephropathy, developments in HIV therapies and drug regimens, and the use of complementary and alternative medicines in HIV. Sonali Sonecha and Jennifer Swan report
PJ   2006;277:52
Full Text   PDF (30K)

College of Pharmacy Practice
College of Pharmacy Practice lays put its stall at silver jubilee conference 57
Services offered by the College of Pharmacy Practice were outlined at a recent celebratory conference. Steven Kayne reports
PJ   2006;277:57
Full Text   PDF (30K)

Onlooker   58

PJ   2006;277:58
PDF (50K)


Coping with panic disorder 58
For our classical ancestors Pan was a deity calling for respect
PJ   2006;277:58
Full Text

Survival may turn on faculty of foresight 58
In Science for 19 May, a psychologist from Brisbane considers how the art of foresight developed in the human mind and contributed to survival of our remote ancestors
PJ   2006;277:58
Full Text

Arguments continue over our dwarf ancestors from Indonesia 58
The rather spirited arguments over the celebrated dwarfs who left their fossilised remains in the island of Flores in Indonesia show no signs of settling down into an agreed pattern
PJ   2006;277:58
Full Text

PJ   2006;277:59-62
PDF (250K)


Society launches resource pack to help pharmacist prescribers 59
PJ   2006;277:59
Full Text

Welsh executive focuses on communication 59
PJ   2006;277:59
Full Text

Council meets in Scotland 59
PJ   2006;277:59
Full Text

Appointments to committees of the Council for 2006-07 60
PJ   2006;277:60
Full Text


Treasures of the Royal Pharmaceutical society's Collections 60
'Pharmacographia' (1874), by Daniel Hanbury and Friedrich Fluckiger
PJ   2006;277:60
Full Text   PDF  (30K)


Statutory Committee Reports
Striking-off for breaches of law and Code of Ethics 61
PJ   2006;277:61
Full Text

Restoration for man who sold CDs and POMs to newspaper investigator 61
PJ   2006;277:61
Full Text


Obituaries & tributes 62

Obituaries
- Lillie
- Ridding
- Roods
- Searle
- Slattery

Tributes
- Searle
PJ   2006;277:32
Full Text

Diary
Branch meetings 62
PJ   2006;277:62
Full Text
 

Resources 42
-Scottish contract
-London bombings
-Welsh eye care
PJ   2006;277:42
Full Text

Corrections 42
-Parkinson's disease
PJ   2006;277:42
Full Text