The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp121-148 No 7411
29 July 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   122

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Learning from Bristol? 122
Five years ago, the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry — under the chairmanship of Sir Ian Kennedy — published its final report. The inquiry examined the catalogue of surgical disasters in paediatric cardiology at the hospital between 1984 and 1995 and revealed — among many shortcomings — woeful gaps in medical accountability and patient safety
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News & Features   123-129

News summary  123-128
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Lead stories
-Briefing paper highlights pharmacy's role to PM
-Boots plans to house outpatient services for primary care trusts
-Pharmacists need to advise public about allergies
-Indicative rates for enhanced services set in Wales
-More work needed to combat C difficile infections
-Over 11,000 scripts written by pharmacists in 2005
-NICE accepts two drugs for severe plaque psoriasis

The Society: to split or not to split? 129
The Foster review on regulation of the non-medical health professions, published for consultation last week, suggests that the Royal Pharmaceutical Society should separate its regulatory and professional leadership functions. Dawn Connelly explores some possibilities
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Products   130

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Recalls   130
-Lipitor
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Products   130
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Counter products
-Products miscellany
-Supply issues
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Announcements   130
-Cardiff University
-Rosemont website
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Letters   132-133

-The profession
-Dispensing
-Medicine use reviews
-Strains and sprains
-CPPE
-Fellowship
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Articles   134-138

Vaccine administration in pharmacies — a Scottish success story 134-136
Caroline Hind and George Downie describe three years' experience of providing influenza immunisation from community pharmacies in Grampian
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National workforce census
Career choices, working patterns and the future pharmacy workforce 137-138
In this second article in a series presenting data from a longitudinal cohort study about pharmacy careers, Sarah Willis, Phillip Shann and Karen Hassell discuss some key issues relating to the 2006 pharmacy graduate cohort's expected career choices and patterns of work
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Reviews   139

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Aromatherapy science: a guide for healthcare professionals 139
by Maria Lis-Balchin
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Pneumonia before antibiotics: therapeutic evolution in twentieth-century America 139
by Scott H. Podolsky
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Controlled drugs in primary care: the law, probity and good practice 139
by Nigel Morley
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Onlooker   140

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Assessing the risk from antidepressants 140
In the 17 June issue of The Lancet there is a comment from a doctor in Australia on the effect that treatment with selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may have on suicidal tendencies in depressed patients. There have been conflicting claims that SSRIs may reduce suicide rates but increase the risk in some patients early in the course of treatment
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Remembering the man who said that only death and taxes are certain 140
Three hundred years after his birth, we remember Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), a polymath who is famously recorded as having remarked in 1789: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”
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How archaeological research is shifting back the origins of agriculture 140
There are from time to time fierce arguments over the earliest efforts of humans to cultivate food
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Prescribing & Medicines Management

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What makes appropriate prescribing? PM1-2
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Prescribing needs a recognised model PM2
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How new prescribers can limit liability PM3
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Is this the beginning of the end for supplementary prescribing? PM3
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A new framework and accreditation process for membership of FPMM PM4
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Aberdeen researchers chosen to carry out simulated patient study 141
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Pass rate 86.5pc in registration examination 141
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Auction of Birdsgrove House contents 141
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New edition of MEP is aimed at technicians as well as pharmacists 142
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Society seeks Byelaw amendment to recognise independent prescribing 142
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New book gives guidance on extemporaneous preparation of medicines 143
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Visitor from Kenya 143
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Checking the identity of a medical practitioner 142
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Keep medicines out of the reach and sight of children 142
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Information Pharmacists (Information Centre) publications 143
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's information pharmacists have compiled information for members in the format of reference lists and answers to frequently asked questions. The Society's RPS e-PIC database has been used to produce condensed lists of journal references (RPS e-PIC reference lists)
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Official notices 2001 to present

Alterations to the Byelaws: independent prescribing 144
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Statutory Committee decisions 144-145
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Registration examination successes 145-148
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Society meetings 148
Evening lecture: Women in the army medical services since the English civil war (20 September)
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Future events 131
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Awards 130-131
-Clinical pharmacy
-Kidney research grant
-UniChem Awards
-Patient safety
-Hospital technicians
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Resources 131
-Diabetes
-Heatwave advice
-Schizophrenia
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Wants 131
-Pharmacy locums
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Corrections 131
-Letter to the editor
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