The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp149-179 No 7412
5 August 2006

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   150

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Why not write to the papers? 150
Last week we published a short letter from David Thomas, who was urging fellow pharmacists to bask in the glory of comments made in a letter to The Daily Telegraph by a consultant about how invaluable pharmacists were to ensuring high quality prescribing in hospitals
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Significant event audit 150
This week, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has published an introduction to significant event audit
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News & Features   151-156

News summary  151-156
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Lead stories
-Medicines use reviews data reveal English picture
-Alliance Boots merger complete — and new company logo revealed
-Paracetamol continues to be sold in excess despite legislation restricting pack sizes
-Nexphase all clear for EPS roll out
-Fast-acting inhaled insulin available from this week
-ABPI rewards pharmacy initiatives
-Doctors want warning on long-acting beta₂ agonists
-Pharmacists champion sexual health in SE London

Products   157

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Products   157
-New medicines
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
-SPC changes
-Products miscellany
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Broad Spectrum   158

CAM bashers versus namby-pambies — can there ever be lasting peace? 158
By Chris Brewer
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Letters   159-160

-The profession
-Safety
-Code of Ethics
-Homoeopathy
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Original papers   161-163

Commissioning services and the new community pharmacy contract
Pharmaceutical needs assessments and uptake of new pharmacy contracts 161-163
By Rebecca Elvey, Fay Bradley, Darren Ashcroft and Peter Noyce
Aim — To identify and describe (i) pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA) activity and (ii) the awarding of new NHS community pharmacy contracts in primary care trusts in England
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Articles   164-165

National workforce census
Graduate destinations — choices made about preregistration training 164-165
In this final article in a series presenting data from a longitudinal cohort study about pharmacy careers, Sarah Willis, Philip Shann and
Karen Hassell focus on students’ choices relating to the sector and location where they hope to complete their preregistration training
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Meetings   166-167

Reports index

International Social Pharmacy Workshop
Public health and pharmacy — a match made in heaven or a marriage of convenience? 166-167
Pharmacists, psychologists and sociologists from 27 countries gathered to discuss pharmacy in a social context, with an emphasis on public health. Angela Alexander reports
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Onlooker   168

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Betony: more than a wound application 168
In Britain there are five species of woundwort (Stachys), all flowering at about the same time in July — betony, distributed along hedgerows and the edges of fields; the marsh woundwort, at the side of streams; the hedge woundwort; the corn woundwort; and the downy woundwort, the latter being a doubtful native. As the common name suggests, all have been adopted in folk medicine as applications for injuries by sharp objects
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Has our willingness to help others evolved as a result of punishment? 168
There is a common philosophy abroad, encouraged by our social agencies, that in any attempt to regulate our environment we face the choice of offering the proverbial carrot or the equally proverbial stick to anyone crossing our path
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Germany works to establish a sound policy for the future of science 168
An interesting editorial contributed to the 14 July issue of Science by no less a person than Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, sets out the skeleton of a science policy for 2006 onwards
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   169-172

Recent articles

An update on insulin analogues   169-172
Recombinant DNA technology has enabled the production of insulin analogues. In this article, Irene Gummerson discusses the products and their benefits over standard formulations
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Planning a response to the review of health profession regulation 173
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Gift marks 100th birthday of former member of the Society's Council 173
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Society representatives attend Buckingham Palace garden party 176
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Guide to significant event audit 174-175
This guidance has been prepared by Stephen Ashmore and Tracy Johnson, Leicestershire Primary Care Audit Group,supported by the Society's Practice and Quality Improvement Directorate, to help pharmacists implement risk management requirements of the new pharmacy contract in England and Wales
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Statutory Committee Reports
Admonition for pharmacist who dispensed unsigned prescriptions 176
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Pharmacist reprimanded over erroneous prescription endorsements 177
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page

August 2006 amendments 178
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee decisions 178
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Obituaries & tributes 178

Obituaries
-Caine
-Milnes
-Paul
-Turner

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Future events 157
-Renal Pharmacy Group (29-30 September)
-Patient communication (18 October)
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